BY II. J. CARTER. ll 



smaller Ihau in C. australis. Elytra with slioulders sub-obsolete, each with sis 

 <vell cut buloi, besides a narrow lateral stria. Dimensions : 14-15 x 4-4i mm. 



7/a6.— Victoria Mts. : Wood's Point (H. J. Carter); St. Bernard's Hospice (T. 

 G. Sloane). 



A narrow, very nitid species allied to australis and aureus Carter, but dis- 

 tinguished from the former by the more robust antennae, structure of the thorax 

 (especially of the posterior teeth), and the different elytral striation. (In G. 

 australis thiei'e are eight sulci, besides the lateral stria, on each elytron). C. 

 aureus is a wider, flatter species with prominent humeri, flat elytral intervals, 

 the thorax with wider foliation and nai-rower border, tho posterior tooth wider. 

 Both australis and aureus have much narrower tarsi on the posterior feet. I can 

 liiseern no sexual chara.cters, but think that both of my examples are miiJe. Type 

 in Coll. Carter. ('. au.slraliy also occurs in Victoria at Bright, Beeohworth, etc. 



Text-figs. 11-13. 



11. Caj-diot/iLi-ax aus/ralis Cart. 



12. C. victoriae, n.sp. 



13. Hind tibia and tarsi of C lle.xipes, n.si>. 



Cardiothorax flexipes, u.sp. (Text-fig. 13.) 



Elongate ovate, subnitid black, antennae and tarsi fuscous. 



Head and prothorax very much as in C. caperatus Pasc. and C. tibialis 

 Cart., the latter arcuat«-emarginate at apex, sub-trancate at base, sides well 

 rounded, widest before middle, foliate margins wide, lateral border well raised, 

 separating sulcus well defined, anterior angles obtuse (the tip a little blunted), 

 a short sinuation preceding the dentate posterior angle, the sub-rectangular tooth 

 twisted downward and outward (somewhat as in caperatus Pasc), disc with 

 deep medial sulcus and an elongate sulcus on each side of this. Elytra consider- 

 ably wider than prothorax at base; oval; epipleural fold fonning an arched 

 carina at shoulder, each elytron with nine sulci, the 9th a mere stria at the side — 

 intervals forming rounded costae, the 5th and 7th wider than the rest. Hind 

 tibiae bent downwards near base, the inner margin fiu-nished with a few bristly 

 hairs; posterior tarsi with 1st joint considerably longer than the last. Dimensions : 

 19 X 7 mm. 



Hab. — N. Queensland: Ravenshoe (H. J. Carter). 



I took a single example — probably c? from the tibial character noted above — 

 in July, 1921. A large species near tibialis and caperatus, it differs from both 

 in (1) more ovate, less parallel, form, (2) unequally wide elytral intervals — all 

 intervals wider and more closely set, (3) the tibial and tarsal characters noted 



