Lea — On Australian Cm.F.npTERA 97 



others are ;ilso sometimes infuscated. 'I'lie upper-surface, at a glance, appears 

 to he .t,^hil)r()us, except for some patches of silvery pubescence, hut there is really 

 a median fascia, placed like a rexersed wide \'. of very short velvetv black 

 pubescence, behind this is a narrow sihery edging, and in front of it on each 

 elytron the inibescence forms a cur\ ed silvery mark : the mark commences not 

 far from the base, extends as a narrow, and sometimes almost golden, line, almost 

 ]3arallel with the suture, cur\es round at the dark fascia, and is then strongly 

 triangularly dilated U> the margin, its inner curved portion is filled with black 

 pubescence as the fascia ; the Ijase of the prothorax and parts of the under-surface 

 are also clothed with sihery pubescence. The prothorax is much less arched than in 

 the jjreceding species, on the under-surface its apex is lightly corrugated, and 

 elsewhere coarsely shagrecned ; the niet;isternum is shagreened, but towards the 

 apex is somewhat shining, the alidnmeii .'dso is shining. The alxlomen of the 

 male is remarkable, at fu'sl glance it a])pears to be eomposcil of but two segments: 

 llie first a large one about the length of the metasternuni. the second fairly long 

 at the sides, and narrow at the middle, its tip with a dense fringe of long golden- 

 red hairs: the end of the ujiper-surface of the abdomen is also clothed with 

 similar hair.s ; the fringe as a result (wh.en viewed from behind) appears to be 

 almost circular, and to margin a cavity (containing the three other segments) 

 that is also filled with golden-red hairs. The aljdomen of the female is normal. 



TILLOMORPHA MOESTULA White. 



There are numerous specimens of this species in the Museum from Queens- 

 land ( Cooktown. Cairns. Kuranda. Mackay. and the .South Johnstone River), 

 but with the exception of one specimen from Mackay they are all smaller (down 

 to two lines) than the type (three lines). They all ha\e the pronotum densely 

 longitudinally stri;iled. a character not mentioned in the original description, 



PERIAPTODES Pasc. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.. iii ( ,^rd Scr. ). p. 282. 



PERIAPTODES LICTOR Pasc. 



/-.(■. p. 2S3. ])1, xiv. fig. 3. 



P. f rater, v. d. Poll. Notes I.eyd. Mus. ix ( 18S7). p. 119. 



."X specimen taken at the Coen River by Mr. W. D. lOodd agrees well, except 

 as to size and the scape, with the description and figure of P. lictor, and also with 

 the descri])lion of /'. fratrr: the former was described as from Dorey. the latter 

 from (,'ape \'ork and New liritain. The tyjie of f niter was 41 nun. in length, the 



