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NoTOCALVicEPS PUNCTiPENNis, Lea. 



A specimen from Cairns differs from the description of 

 the type of this species in being slightly larger (10 mm.), and 

 with two small whitish spots slightly before the middle of the 

 elytra (as in varus) instead of near the apex (as on the type). 



In the generic description the eyes were noted as finely 

 faceted; this is incorrect. The facets are of moderate size or 

 rather coarse. 



DiAPHOROCIS, n. g. 



Head rather small but distinct from above ; forehead 

 quadrisinuate. Eyes rather small, coarsely faceted, widely 

 separated. Rostrum long, thin, and curved. Antennae rather 

 thin ; scape inserted much closer to base than to apex of 

 rostrum, not half the length of funicle ; funicle with two basal 

 joints elongate, none of the others transverse ; club subovate. 

 Prothorax transverse, sides rounded, base truncate. Scutelhim 

 absent. Elytra not much wider than prothorax, subparallel- 

 sided to near apex. Pectoral canal deep and narrow, termin- 

 ated between middle coxae. Mesosternal receptacle scarcely 

 raised, rather widely U-shaped, base slightly stouter than 

 sides, emargination feebly transverse ; cavernous. Meta- 

 sternum along middle about half the length of the following 

 segment; episterna very narrow. Abdomen rather large, 

 sutures straight and distinct, first segment almost as long as 

 three following combined, second almost as long as two follow- 

 ing combined. T.egs not very long; femora stout, acutely 

 dentate; tibiae compressed; tarsi rather long and thin. Some- 

 what depressed, squamose, fasciculate, coarsely punctate. 



In many respects close to Methidrysis (the forehead, 

 rostrum, and antennae are practically identical), but without 

 a scutellum and very differently sculptured. Notoccdviceps, to 

 which, perhaps, it is closer, has also a scutellum and has meta- 

 sternal episterna distinct throughout. In an (at present M.S.) 

 table of the genera allied to Poroyterus, it would be associated 

 with TerjJoroptf.s, which has larger eyes, insertion of scape 

 more distant from the base, elytra narrower and deeper, abdo- 

 men considerably narrower, and femora thinner, with the hind 

 pair passing apex of elytra. In general appearance the species 

 described below resembles some species of Omydaus and of 

 Poropterus, but from the former the quadrisinuate forehead 

 is at once distinctive, and from the latter the strongly dentate 

 femora. 



DiAPHOROCIS VARIEGATUS, n. Sp. 



Black; antennae and tarsi of a rather bright-red. Some- 

 what irregularly clothed with scales, varying from snowy- 

 white, through ochreous, to black; and from small and closely 

 applied to the derm to stout and suberect. 



