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tainly, I think, distinct. It seems to be very differently coloured, 
the W. Australian insect having testaceous elytra with the 
shoulders and apices darker, whereas in this the elytra are 
brownish-black, with the shoulders testaceous. In D. brevicollis 
the tubercles on the prothorax are said to be nine (three on the 
disc and three on each side); in this species there are a transverse 
row of five tubercles a little in front of the base (the external one 
on each side being spiniform), a transverse row of four slightly in 
front of the middle, and a single tubercle on each side just about 
the middle. The basal four joints of the antenne are nitid and 
very coarsely punctulate ; the entirely dark colour of the fourth 
joint is probably not constant. The absence of a depressed 
pubescence, the colour, and many other characters, distinguish it 
from D. obliqua. The femora, without being at all clavate, are 
stouter than, and not quite so linear, as those of D. obliqua. 
Victoria ; Mooroolbark Ranges; taken by Mr. French. 
D. (Stenocorus) annulicornis, Germ. This species seems to 
be identical with D. obliqua, Newm., of which, in that case, 
its name will be a synonym. 
TEISPES. 
T. Frenchi, sp. nov. Mas. Nitidus; piceo-niger; metasterno > 
pedibusque rufis, hoc breviter fulvo-pubescenti, antennis 
rufo-piceis ; mandibulis quam caput parum brevioribus, spar- 
sim ineequaliter punctulatis ; capite medio subtiliter canal- 
iculato, antice ineequaliter punctulato (puncturis magnitudine 
valde diversis), postice opaco granulato ; prothorace quam 
longiori plus quam duplo latiori, antice fortiter trisinuato, 
disco toto (puncturis magnis sparsis in parte postero-externa 
exceptis) fere levi, parte laterali sat late opaca crebre rugu- 
lose punctulata, lateribus serratis; elytris obsolete reticulato- 
rugatis vix perspicue punctulatis ad apicem rotundato-trun- 
catis (angulo suturali breviter spiniformi), vix perspicue 
3-costatis, sulco elongato obsoleto prope marginem lateralem 
instructis ; femoribus posterioribus 4 subtus biseriatim 
denticulatis ; tibiis anticis prope apicem dente singulo et ad 
apicem altero extus armatis ; antennis quam corporis dimi- 
dum paullo longioribus, scapo oculum medium paullo super- 
anti parum depresso, articulo 3° quam _ scapus paullo 
breviori ; abdomine fere levi, segmento apicali postice longe 
fulvo-ciliato. 
Feminz mandibulis paullo brevioribus, prothorace angustiori. 
Long. (mands. incl.), 18—21 1. ; lat., 6—63 1. 
The prothorax of the male is scarcely, of the female consider- 
ably, narrower than the elytra. JI have in my collection an 
example from Port Darwin of an insect which I take to be 7. 
