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and the spots of pubescence on the dorsal segments 

 are different, virulenta having an apical fascia of white 

 pubescence instead of an apical spot. 



Ephutomorpha lurida, sp. n. 



9. Pallide ferruginea; segmento dorsali secundo fascia mediana 

 longitudinal! nigra, segmentis quinto sextoque fuscis; segmento 

 dorsali secundo macula magna utrinque fasciaque angusta apicali, 

 tertioque macula mediana albopilosis ; area pygidiali late triangulari, 

 delicatissime punctata. 



Long. 5-6 mm. 



$. Head and thorax sparsely clothed with pale fulvous pubescence ; 

 antennal tubercles fairly well developed, second joint of the flagel- 

 lum very little longer than the third. Eyes round, strongly convex, 

 much nearer to the posterior margin of the head than to the base 

 of the mandibles. Head narrower than the thorax, strongly rounded 

 at the posterior angles, finely and closely punctured. Thorax fully 

 half as long again as the greatest breadth, strongly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, the apical margin scarcely more than half as wide as the 

 basal; the anterior margin feebly arched, not quite transverse, 

 rugose, more coarsely at the apex than at the base, the posterior 

 slope coarsely rugose. Second dorsal segment finely longitudinally 

 rugulose ; fully half as long again as the greatest breadth, the sides 

 very feebly convex. Sides of the abdomen thinly clothed with 

 long fulvous hairs ; pygidial area broadly triangular, very minutely 

 punctured. Hind tibiae with one row of four spines. 



Hab. N. Queensland, Townsville {F. P. Dodd), Sep- 

 tember. 



This belongs to the group of E. darwiniana, Andre, and 

 E. excerpta, Turn., but differs from both in colour; from 

 the former in the more strongly narrowed apical portion 

 of the thorax, the longer second abdominal segment and 

 the sculpture of the pygidial area; from the latter in the 

 more gradually narrowed thorax and in the less convex 

 sides of the second abdominal segment, 



Ephutomorpha diversipes, sp. n. 



$. Nigra; vertice late, fronte nigro intammato, thoraceque 

 ferrugineis ; tuberculis antennalibus, flagello articulo primo, tarsisque 

 pallide testaceis; segmento dorsali primo fascia apicali pallide 

 lutea ; calcaribus pallidis ; segmentis dorsa'.ibus 2-5 fascia mediana 

 longitudmali continua albido pilosa. 



Long. 5 mm. 



