about the bases of the segments than elsewhere. P>ont femora very stout, 

 with a thin and rather abruptly terminated ridge ; front tibiae strongly dilated 

 from base to beyond the middle, and then unevenly excavated on one side to 

 apex ; front tarsi with four basal joints inflated to form a very large pad. 

 Length, 16-17 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: South Johnstone River (H. W. Brown), Cairns (E. 

 Allen). Type, I. 12627. 



The bicuspidate tooth on each mandible associates this species with P. 

 quadraticoUis, and P. aeneiventris, from which it differs in being much larger; 

 from the former it also differs in having the prothorax not shagreened, although 

 with unusually dense punctures, antennae longer, and elytra uniformly coloured ; 

 from the latter it differs also in the much more crowded and less uniform 

 punctures ; the latter has the abdomen more brightly iridescent. The head, 

 from a semicircular space connecting the antennary tubercles, is shining in front, 

 and opaque behind, the opacity due to the dense crowding of punctures, which 

 (except near the shining part) cannot be individually distinguished; on the 

 shining part there are numerous fairly large ones, very numerous small ones, 

 and still more numerous minute ones irregularly intermingled. The punctures 

 on the prothorax, although densely crowded, are seldom confluent, so that they 

 are nearly all sharply defined, they are smaller than the large ones on the head. 

 From certain oblique directions the elytra appear to be densely granulate. On 

 both specimens the front femora and tibiae are, in parts, deeply infuscated. 

 The front tarsal pad is unusually large, even for the genus, and its outer base 

 is produced backwards to fit into a depression on the sides of the tibia ; on 

 aeneiventris it is somewhat smaller, but is otherwise similar. Where type 

 numbers are given they are those of the South Australian Museum. 



Procirrus, Latr., Cat., p. 197. 



The species here referred to this genus have the head rather small, with a 

 long neck, the antennae thin, with all the joints longer than wide, apical joint 

 of maxillary palpi long and acuminate, prothorax at least twice as long as 

 wide, sides of abdomen practically immarginate, four basal joints of front 

 tarsi dilated and subquadrate, basal joint of middle ones much longer than the 

 rest combined, hind ones with basal joint twice as long as the rest 

 combined, and the fourth joint short, bilobed, and with a membranous flap. 

 I have seen but one ex-Australian species, but the characters given by Erichson/^^> 

 I.acordaire,^^'), and Fauvel^^^^ seem conclusive. 



CASTELNAUI, Fvl. N.S.W., V., S.A. VICTORIAE, Fvl. N.S.W., V. 



Procirrus victoriae, Fvl. 



The description of this species is but little more than a comparison with the 

 ex- Australian P. lefevrei, but, such as it is, it agrees with three specimens before 

 me, from Sydney and Melbourne, except that they are somewhat smaller — 

 10-10.5 mm. 



Procirrus dolichoderes, n. sp. Fig. 1. 



d. Black; elytra brick-red, antennae, palpi, and tarsi of a more or less 

 dingy red, but in parts deeply infuscated. Clothed with short, depressed, ashen 

 pubescence. 



Head moderately large, narrowed in front of eyes and rounded behind 

 them, towards base greatly narrowed, and with a long thin neck ; with dense 

 and sharply-defined punctures of moderate size. Mandibles long and acute, 



(1^) Erichson, Gen. et. Spec. Staph., p. 685. 

 (1--2) Lacordaire, Gen. Col., ii., pp. 102, 105. 

 a3) Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Civ., Gen., 1878, p. 506. 



