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«liarp. The black marking of tlie elytra consists o£ a common 

 vitta, which covers at the base the space between the first costa 

 •on the two elytra, and gradually dilates backward till it 

 touches the lateral margins at a distance from the apex about 

 -equal to the length of the hind tarsi. The first and third costae 

 are at the base scarcely feebler than the other two, but back- 

 ward they soon become no more elevated than the transverse 

 lines of the interstices. The penultimate ventral segment is 

 :semicircularly incised in tbe middle. 



Three specimens (all males) were sent to me from Western 

 Australia by E. Meyrick, Esq. 



TELEPHOEIJS . 



The following three species are, I think, not true members 

 of this genus, although they are near enough to be attributed 

 to it in a general sense provisionally. As it is possible they 

 may fall into M. Fairemaire's genus Seleiiurus, of which I can- 

 not procure a description (certainly none of them are identical 

 with the species he has described), I am not justified in giving 

 them a new name. They differ from Telepliorus in the shape 

 of the elytra, which are abruptly and strongly contracted from 

 the middle to the apex (which is separately rounded), so that 

 close to the apex they are not more than half as wide as at the 

 base, and leave a wide piece of the upper surface of the hind- 

 body exposed on either side ; also they have no trace of a spine 

 at the apex of the tibiae. The apical joint of the maxillary 

 palpi is subcultriform and three or four times as long as the 

 preceding joint. 



I possess six examples presenting the above characters, whicb 

 belong, I think, to three closely allied species. i\.mong these 

 there appear to be five females and one male, * and the sexual 

 differences are very well marked. The male (of course this 

 may not apply to the males of all three species, though in all 

 probability it does) has the head enormously developed, being 

 across the eyes very decidedly wider than the thorax, and quite 

 as wide as the elytra at their widest part. Its hind body on 

 the underside has the lateral (or pleural) portion very wide 

 indeed, and the discal part narrow, and evenly and gently con- 

 vex, the penultimate segment being extremely deeply incised, 

 with the small apical segment enclosed within the incision and 

 protruding beyond it. In the female the head is considerably 

 narrower than the thorax ; the hind body resembles that of 

 the male in general form except that the middle part is pinched 

 together (as it were) into a longitudinal keel on either side of 



* It is just barely possible that I may have reversed the sexes ; I have no 

 absolute proof as to which is which. 



