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punctures and grooves behind. Femora as in the preceding 

 species. Length, 2 mm. 



llnJi. — New South Wales: Nepean Rivei' (A. J. Coates), 

 Sydney (H. J. Carter). 



Readily distinguished from waurvs and AJhni by the 

 white elytral V ; the arms of this commence near each shoul- 

 der and become conjoined on suture before the middle. A 

 somewhat abraded male, evidently belonging to this species, 

 differs in having the rostrum shorter, stouter, more coarsely 

 punctured, and with the antennae inserted closer to the apex. 



I have not described the prothorax and elytra in this 

 and the two following species, as they are much the same as 

 in Alleni. 



Nanophyes nigrovarius, n. sp. 



Flavous, in places becoming dull-red ; head, club, meso- 

 and metasternum and abdomen black or blackish, base of 

 rostrum and funicle more or less infuscate. Clothed with 

 whitish pubescence, denser on sides of sterna and of abdo- 

 men than elsewhere, and with a tendency to form a V on 

 the elytra. 



Rosfruw and antennae of both sexes much as in AJhni, 

 and femora the same. Length, 2-2J mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Nepean River (A. J. Coates), 

 Clarence River (A. M. Lea). 



The elytral V is in the same position as in the preceding 

 species, but is not quite so pronounced. 



A specimen from Brisbane is probably a variety : it differs 

 in being dull red, in having the rostrum entirely black, the 

 suture black at the base (in one of the types it is infuscate at 

 the base), and the sides of the elytra and middle of femora 

 infuscate. 



Nanophyes pallidicornis, n. sp. 



Female(?). Flavous; in places slightly reddish or 

 slightly infuscated. Sparsely clothed with greyish pubescence, 

 and forming a feeble V on elytra. 



Bostrum thin, parallel-sided, slightly longer than pro- 

 thorax, with grooves and punctures behind, and a few punc- 

 tures in front of antennae, these inserted at apical two-fifths. 

 Femora very feebly bidentate. Length, IJ mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales (Macleay jNIuseum) : Forest 

 Reefs (A. M. Lea). 



Smaller and wider than any other species tabulated 

 below. The pale club and under surface will readily distin- 

 guish it from nir/rovarius : the elytral V is no more conspi- 

 cuous than in that species, but on one of the specimens there 

 is a faint row of slightlv-darkened spots before and another 



