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Hab. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine; New South 

 Wales: Forest Reefs and National Park (A. M. Lea). 

 Type, I. 6166. 



In general appearance much like eucalypti, but narrower, 

 antennae distinctly longer (in both sexes) and darker, eyes 

 larger (in both sexes), elytral punctures distinctly larger 

 and scutellum flavous. Three specimens (two males and one 

 female) have the head very slightly darker than the pro- 

 thorax, and the basal joints of the antennae conspicuously 

 paler than the following ones; but a second female has the 

 head almost as dark as the elytra, the antennae entirely dark, 

 and the hind legs infuscated; it is also slightly larger than 

 the others, and has some longer hairs scattered about on the 

 elytra. The distance between the eyes of the male at their 

 nearest is about equal to the length of .the first antennal joint; 

 in the female it is about equal to that of the three basal joints. 



Xylophilus flavocastaneus, n. sp. 



<S . Flavo-castaneous, parts of elytra paler. Clothed 

 with very short, ashen pubescence. 



Head with punctures normally concealed. Eyes promi- 

 nent, moderately separated, scarcely notched. Antennae 

 moderately long and rather thin, second joint slightly stouter 

 than third but no longer, eleventh slightly wider than tenth, 

 and about as long as ninth and tenth combined. Prothorax 

 about as long as wide, without distinct impressions and 

 with punctures partially concealed. Elytra distinctly wider 

 than prothorax but not much wider than head ; with dense 

 punctures, partially concealed by clothing, and becoming 

 small posteriorly. Legs rather long; front trochanters acutely 

 spinose; hind femora stout, with a conspicuous abruptly- 

 terminated fringe on lower surface ; hind tibiae thin at base, 

 rather strongly dilated to near apex, and then slightly 

 narrowed to tip, front pair with a short wide flange on one 

 side of apex. Length, 1A-If mm. 



Hab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection), 

 Mount Tambourine ; New South Wales : National Park 

 (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 6171. 



Allied to mundtis, but narrower, more convex, and 

 elytral markings, clothing, and legs different. The paler mark- 

 ings on the elytra are due partly to the colour of the derm 

 itself and partly to its clothing, and are less distinct on the 

 specimens (including the type) from the far north than the 

 others; on the type they form two fasciae: the first just 

 before the middle, interrupted at the suture and irregular 

 about the shoulders, the second just beyond the middle and 

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