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Brachopsis concolor, Saund. 



The reference to the figure (omitted altogether from 

 Masters' Catalogue) in the original description was errone- 

 ously given. It should have been pi. 1, fig. 4; not pi. iv., 

 fig. 4. 



Earinus purpureus, n. sp. 



Purple; head, prothorax, and under-surface purplish- 

 blue, tip of antennae reddish. Clothed with longf straggling- 

 hairs, mostly blackish on upper-surface, mostly whitish on 

 under-surface; elytra with short, sparse, whitish pubescence. 



Head with dense and rather coarse punctures; median 

 line well defined between antennae. Antennae thin, four 

 basal joints with distinct punctures, third joint slightly longer- 

 than first and distinctly longer than fourth, eleventh slightly 

 longer than tenth. Prothorax about as long as greatest 

 width, sides subparallel on apical half, then rapidly increasing 

 in width towards base, but near base abruptly narrowed, with 

 the extreme base scarcely wider than apex ; with dense and 

 coarse punctures, but on disc with five small impunctate 

 spaces. Elytra no wider than widest part of prothorax, sides 

 rather strongly narrowed to middle, thence parallel-sided to 

 near apex ; with subgeminate rows of coarse punctures, 

 becoming irregular posteriorly, the interspaces with minute 

 punctures. Legs long and thin. Length, 10-11 mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: ISTuriootpa, Ardrossan (J. G. 

 O. Tepper). Type, I. 5706. 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by its 

 entirely dark prothorax and elytra. The four basal joints of 

 antennae are distinctly purple, the following joints are more 

 or less black, but with the tip of the eleventh reddish. There 

 are about eight rows of punctures on each elytron near the 

 base and four or five about the middle, but only two extend 

 to the apex. As the abdomen is without special clothing 

 en two of the segments the typical specimens (two) are prob- 

 ably females. 



Earinus minor, n. sp. 



Flavous; head between and behind eyes, clypeus, a large 

 discal patch on prothorax, scutellum, mesosternum, most of 

 metasternum, antennae, and most of legs black, parts of 

 elytra and of abdomen rather deeply infuscated. Clothed 

 with long straggling blackish and ashen hairs, elytra, in 

 addition, with short, pale, sparse pubescence. 



Head with dense and coarse punctures, becoming rather 

 sparse on clypeus; median line well defined. Antennae long 



