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punctures. Legs comparatively short ; basal joint of front tarsi 

 large, about half their total length, inner margin curved. 

 Length to apex of elytra 5 ; of abdomen 7 mm. 



Hal). Tasmania : Bellerive (type in H. H. D. Griffith's 

 collection). 



A large dingy species. On the head near the middle 

 of the base there is an indistinct reddish spot, the middle 

 of the apex of the prothorax has an equilaterally triangular 

 reddish spot and this is very indistinctly connected with 

 the base, of which about one-fourth is pale. I do not 

 anticipate however that these markings are constant, but 

 the species is a very distinct one apart from colour. In 

 the only specimen before me the terminal joint of each 

 antennae is missincr. 



Genus Neocarphurus, Lea, P. L. S., N.S.W., 1898, p. 580. 



In this genus the prothorax is so deeply impressed near 

 the base, that seen from the side there appears to be no 

 room for the passage of any substance from the mouth to 

 the abdomen. The elytra are impunctate in all the species 

 and the head is largely excavated and tuberculated in the 

 male. The eyes when wetted or in living specimens are 

 of a beautiful emerald green. 



I am acquainted with all the described species, and 

 these, with two new ones, may be tabulated as follows : — 



A. Prothorax dark, except at extreme base. 



a. Elytra of uniform colour sobrinus, n. sp. 



aa. Elytra pale at base hasizonis, Lea. 



AA. Prothorax pale ; at most maculate. 

 B. Elytra bicolorous. 



h. Tarsi pale impunctatus, Lea. 



hb. Tarsi dark coatesi, n. sp. 



BB. Elytra unicolorous. 



C. Elytra black tubercidatus, Lea. 



CC. Elytra pale chlorops, Lea. 



Neocarphurus basizonis, Lea, P. L. S., N.S.W., 1901, 

 p. 483. 



The type of this species is a female ; another (in the 

 Macleay Museum) has the elytral markings reduced to a 

 comparatively small spot on each shoulder. Another 



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