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a little sparser and less apparent elsewhere. Scutellum invisible. 

 Legs long and thin, anterior tibiae feebly, posterior very stronglyr 

 arcuate. 



Length, 3.75, width 1.5 mm. * 



Habitat. — Queensland: Blackall Ranges, (F. E, Wilson). 



Type unique, in author's collection. 



In Lea's table of species, Trans. Ent. See. Lond., 1909 (1), p. 169,. 

 this species would come under the same heading as alphabeticus, Lea, 

 but the impunctate head, and prothoracic and elytral impressions, 

 amongst other things should serve easily to differentiate it from 

 that species. 



CERAMBYCIDAE. 

 Sab-family PRIONINI. 



Elaptus pilostcollis, n.sp. 



^ Uniformly light brown, nitid; apex and margins of mandibles, 

 jugular processes, knees, and margins of tibiae and tibial spurs, black 

 or darker; undersurface slightly paler; head, portions of mandibles, 

 prothorax, scutellum, femora, tibiae, and all the undersurface except 

 the ventral segments covered with a long erect golden pubescence; 

 clothing of ventral segments a little shorter and more decumbent. 

 Elytra apparently glabrous, but viewed from the side seen to be 

 furnished with sparse very minute setae. 



Head rather small, with a fairly well defined sulcus on disc, punc- 

 turation rather sparse on disc, much closer together on clypeus and 

 behind eyes; eyes rather wide apart; mandibles sharply pointed, 

 with numerous punctures on their paler portions, antennae reaching 

 apical third of elytra, scape barely over-reaching hind margin of 

 eye, and stouter than joint 3, joints 1 and 2 somewhat closely and 

 coarsely punctured, almost glabrous and nitid, the rest, with the ex- 

 ception of a small nitid spot at the apex of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th 

 joints, covered with a very minute puncturation, and a depressed 

 pubescence, giving them an opaque appearance. 



Prothorax 4.5 x 7 mm., convex, and depressed forward, broadest 

 at about basal third, and lightly decreasing in width towards apex, 

 sides lightly marginate, and evenly rounded to meet basal and apical 

 margin, apical margin lightly advanced in centre; median sulcus 

 almost obsolete, midway between it and the lateral borders are two 

 obscurely defined depressions, the whole closely punctured generally, 

 but becoming a little less frequent towards the front of disc; basal 

 and apical margins ciliated. 



Elytra at base broader than prothorax, gently decreasing in width 

 towards apex, with five somewhat obscure costae on each elytron, the 

 first and third being the most prominent; the whole covered with 

 large round punctures, well defined except at extreme base. Scutellum 

 a little transverse, and broadly rounded at apex, with fairly numerous 

 though not well defined punctures. Prosternum, metasternum, and its 

 episternums covered with a fine, very close puncturation, this becoming; 



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