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the almost entirely dark legs and subcylindrical antennae 

 from the other allied species. 



Carphurus elegans, n. sp. 



1^. Flavoiis; elytra purplish-black; metasternuni, apical segment 

 of abdomen, hind femora (except at base) and apical half of antennae 

 (but not the terminal joint), black or blackish; tarsi and four hind 

 tibiae more or less inf uscate. 



Head rather short ; with several feeble frontal impressions ; a feeble 

 curved impressed line connecting the eyes ; behind this some dis- 

 tinct punctures, but base not distinctly strigose. Eyes rather larger 

 than usual. Antennae moderately long, strongly serrate; 11th joint 

 distinctly longer than 10th and obtusely pointed. Frothorax dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide, sides and apex rounded, base feebly 

 bilobed and almost the width of apex. Elytra longer than usual, 

 at base distinctly wider than prothorax, dilated towards and each 

 strongly separately rounded at apex ; densely minutely and rugosely 

 punctate. Legs longer than usual, basal joint of front tarsi about 

 two-thirds of their total length, with the inner margin straight and 

 black rimmed. 



Length to apex of elytra 5, of abdomen 8| mm. 



Hah. Queensland : Kuranda {H. H. B. Griffith, ex 

 F. P. Bodd, February 1904). 



One of the largest and finest species of the genus, with 

 the basal joint of the front tarsi much longer than in any 

 other species of the allied genera and almost perfectly 

 straight (a most unusual feature), in the four hind tarsi 

 also the basal joint is of unusual length. Of two males 

 before me one has the entire elytra dark, but in the other 

 they are pale at the base within a line extending to each 

 side from the hind margin of the scutellum. 



Carphurus longus, n. sp. 



$ . Flavous, apical half of antennae inf uscate. 

 Head moderately long, with two feeble subfrontal impressions; 

 ndistinctly punctate ; base feebly transversely strigose. Eyes rather 

 above the usual size. Antennae long and thin ; all the joints more 

 or less subcylindrical and flattened, 10th and 11th almost equal in 

 length. Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, apex and sides near 

 apex rounded ; base feebly bilobed and distinctly narrower than 

 apex. Elytra longer than usual, dilated towards and each separately 

 strongly rounded at apex ; with very dense and minute but clearly 



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