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Hab. — Victoria: Dividing Range (Blackburn's collec- 

 tion); New South Wales: Forest Reefs (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 I. 6120. 



The muzzle is paler than the rest of the head, but the 

 two shades of colour are not sharply contrasted ; on the type 

 the front legs and four hind tarsi are flavous, the four hind 

 femora and tibiae being rather deeply infuscated ; on the 

 Forest Reefs specimen the legs are entirely pale, and the 

 metasternum and abdomen are paler than the elytra. Both 

 specimens on account of the flavous prothorax in strong con- 

 trast to the dark head and elytra are strikingly close in 

 general appearance to several species of H et eromastix of the 

 Telephorides; they are probably females. At first glance the 

 third joint of antennae appears to be part of the fourth. 



SCRAPTIA LUGUBRIS, n. sp. 



d . Dark piceous-brown. Densely clothed with very 

 short pale pubescence. 



Head with crowded and small but fairly well-defined 

 punctures. Eyes fairly close together in front, rather deeply 

 notched. Antennae long and rather thin, slightly passing 

 elytra; second and third joints very small and subequal, their 

 combined length less than that of fourth. Prothorax not 

 twice as wide as the median length, basal half almost parallel- 

 sided, then with sides strongly obliquely narrowed to apex; 

 with densely-crowded punctures, slightly smaller than on 

 head. Elytra slightly wider than prothorax at base, punc- 

 tures much as on head. Legs long and thin; spurs to hind 

 tibiae very unequal, the longer almost the length of the claw 

 joint. Length ( <S , $), 3J-4J mm. 



9 . Differs in being somewhat wider, eyes smaller and 

 more widely separated, antennae shorter and thinner, and 

 in the tarsi. 



Hab. — South Australia (old collection); Western Aus- 

 tralia: Beverley (A. M. Lea); Victoria: Sea Lake (J. C. 

 Goudie, No. 562). Type, I. 6122. 



The male differs from the male of fumata in having the 

 eyes more widely separated (the distance between them is 

 about equal to that between those of the female of fumata), 

 and the elytra comparatively shorter and wider; the female 

 differs from the female of fumata in being darker, more 

 compact, and eyes rather more widely separated. The legs 

 are paler than the body-parts, but even they have a very 

 dark smoky appearance. On the specimen from Sea Lake 

 there is a shallow but fairly distinct depression on each side 

 of the pronotum, and the specimen from Beverley has three 



