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the species is the one subsequently described by Pascoe as E '. 

 lacordaireiS z ) Gray's description < 4 ) is simply "Dark reddish- 

 castaneous; the elytra striated, with broad punctures; 

 antennae reddish." The locality was given as New South 

 Wales. The late Rev. T. Blackburn surmised this synonymy/ 5 ) 

 but apparently he had seen the description only and did not 

 know the female. 



The antennal rami vary in length in four males < 6 ) that 

 I refer to the species. The ramus of the third joint on one 

 specimen is scarcely, twice the length of the joint itself, in 

 another it is almost thrice the length of the joint; in the 

 others it is intermediate; in the first specimen the tip of the 

 ramus if pressed flat would extend to about the middle of 

 the eighth joint. 



Ennometes bifoveicollts, n. sp. 



d . Dark-brown, antennae (two basal-joints excepted) 

 and palpi paler. Moderately clothed with short and some- 

 what silken pubescence, denser and longer on under-surface 

 of femora than elsewhere. 



Head somewhat concave, with dense punctures. Antennae 

 with basal-joint stout, about as long as the distance between 

 eyes, second short, with an obtuse inner projection, third 

 distinctly longer than fourth, third to tenth each with a long 

 ramus of subequal lengths, eleventh distinctly curved, about 

 as long as the ramus of tenth. Prothorax moderately trans- 

 verse, upper-surface strongly rounded in front, with a vague 

 median line terminating near the base in a shallow depression, 

 a strong fovea on each side of middle of disc; with dense 

 punctures. Elytra about as wide as prothorax, and almost 

 four times as long, parallel-sided to beyond the middle; with 

 rows of large, deep, transverse punctures, becoming irregular 

 in places; alternate interstices feebly raised, but all with 

 small punctures. Length, 20 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Claudie River (January, 1914, J. 

 A. Kershaw). Type in National Museum, Melbourne. 



Longer than ruficornis and almost twice as wide, latero- 

 median fove3e of prothorax much deeper, elytral punctures 

 larger, and apical joint of antennae more strongly curved, 

 etc. There are eleven rows of large punctures across the 

 middle of each elytron, but. near the base there are two 



(3) The type of ruficornis being a female, and of lacordairei a 

 male. 



(4) Page 365, not 336, as given in Masters' Catalogue. 



(5) These Transactions, 1900, p. 50. 



(6) Including one so identified by Mr. Blackburn. 



