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punctures very indistinct or absent. Hind femora extending 

 almost to middle of third abdominal segment; tarsi rather 

 sparsely setose on under-surface. Length, 8^-9^ mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Beverley, under logs in nests 

 of Camponotus, sp. (F. H. du Boulay). 



The colour is of an almost even shade throughout, 

 although some specimens are darker than others. From 

 behind the sparse clothing on the disc of the elytra is seen 

 to be in quite regular rows, but from most directions the 

 linear arrangement is not at all evident. The pronotum, 

 except towards the sides, is entirely glabrous, and on some 

 specimens has vague medio-discal, or pcstero-lateral 

 impressions. 



PYROCHROID^E. 

 Lemodes tumidipennis, Blair. 



This beautiful little insect has been taken in rotting wood 

 by Messrs. H. J. Carter, J. J. Walker, and others at Lily- 

 vale and elsewhere in the Illawarra district, and on the Blue 

 Mountains, and by myself at Mount Tambourine, in 

 Queensland. 



Lemodes c^eeuleiventris, Blair. 



Two specimens from the Cairns district (F. P. Dodd and 

 A. M. Lea) appear to belong to this species, but they have 

 a vague impression along the middle of the prothorax. The 

 upper-surface also in addition to the sparse pubescence has 

 fairly numerous erect hairs. One of the specimens has a 

 vague bluish gloss on the upper-surface, but the other is 

 entirely without it. 



CANTHARID^E. 



Sitarida hopei, White. 



( ? ) Goetymes flavicornis, Pasc. 



The locality originally given for this insect was New 

 Holland, and as specimens were recorded from many parts of 

 Australia in Stokes' "Discoveries in Australia," there was 

 no warrant for recording it from King George Sound, as was 

 done in Masters' Catalogue. 



There is in the National (Melbourne) Museum a specimen 

 from Purnong (South Australia) that is possibly Jiopei; it 

 agrees well with the generic description and with the figure, 

 except that the prothorax is more dilated in the middle. But 

 in the description the colours were noted as "Black; elytra 

 slightly pitchy." The specimen under consideration is mostly 

 of a dingy brownish-red, with parts of the head, of sides of 

 prothorax, of legs and of antennae, and most of the under- 

 surface black or blackish. Its length is 19 lines (the type 

 was 17). 

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