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Two specimens from Hobart (A. M. Lea) agree in 
structure with the type, but have the elytra reddish, with 
and for three black spots on each of the second to fourth 
segments of abdomen. A specimen from Brighton (Simson's 
prothorax is less distinct than on the type, and the two 
small submedian transverse impressions are just traceable 
specimen from the Tasmanian Lakes (Blackburn's collection) 
thin and more or less vague pale fasciae: one a out the 
middle, the other half-way between the first and the apex. 
MALACODERMIDAE. 
CARPHURUS MYRMECOPHILUS, n. SP. 
d. Red; elytra (suture excepted), mesosternum, metas- 
ternum, and parts of abdomen and of legs more or less deeply 
infuseated. With numerous long, straggling, dark hairs, 
more numerous on elytra and abdomen than elsewhere. 
Head with two feeble longitudinal depressions between 
second subglolular but slightly wider than long, third slightly 
third-tenth subequal in length, fourth- 
ider joined to the 
than long, sides evenly rounded, base dep 
impunctate. Elytra not much longer than their greatest 
"Width, which is just beyond the middle; wi h numerous 
shallow punctures and feeble granules. Legs oderately long, 
asal joint of front tarsi with a narrow black rim at outer 
, 450-5 mm. : 
A _ Hab.—South Australia: Lucindale, several specimens 
. From a nest of Iridomyrmex detectus (B. A. Feuerheerdt).. 
_ Type, I. 10680. 
