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more strongly dilated and sublamellate ; the 4th extremely small 

 (little more than a nodule) ; the 5 th about the same length as 

 the preceding 3 together. I have before me specimens of an 

 insect that seems certainly to be Candeze's typical species of the 

 genus (P. elegans), but it is from Tasmania (my own capture) 

 not Queensland (Candeze's locality.) There are thus known to 

 me three species of the genus, P. elegans being distinguishable 

 from the other two by, inter alia, the much less acuminate apices 

 of its elytra, and P. quinqitesulcatus from the other two by, inter 

 alia, the non-divaricate hind angles of its prothorax. In all three 

 the carina within the hind angle of the pronotum is very strongly 

 defined and continued more or less distinctly to, or even beyond, 

 the middle of the pronotum. My specimen of P. quinquesulcatus 

 is probably a female, as the antennae scarcely pass the base of 

 the prothorax. 



Victoria (Dividing Range). 



P. bicolor, sp. nov. Augustus; valde elongatus ; niger, pronoti 

 sulco mediano lateribusque et prosterni lateribus rufis ; 

 capite crebre subfortiter punctulato, pilis albidis sat elonga- 

 tis vestito ; prothorace quam ad basin latiori ut 7 ad 6 (quam 

 ad medium latiori ut 7 ad 5) longiori, supra longitudinaliter 

 sat profunde 5-sulcato, in partibus medianis elevatis glabro 

 sparsim subfortiter punctulato, alibi ut caput pubescenti, 

 confertim subtiliter (latera versus magis grosse) punctulato, 

 antice subtruncato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, angulis posticis 

 divaricatis ; elytris breviter pubescentibus, ad apicem valde 

 acuminatis, sat fortiter striatis, interstitiis punctulatis 

 leviter convexis. 

 Maris antennis prothoracis basin longe, feminse parum, super- 

 antibus. Long., of — 6J 1.; lat., li — 1J 1. 



Victoria (Dividing Range). 



MALACODERMID^E. 



SELENURUS. 



S. fernshawensis, sp. nov. Elongatus ; capite nigro, antice 

 flavo-notato, mandibulis plus minusve luteis, antennis pal- 

 pisque nigro-piceis ; prothorace luteo, macula magna dis- 

 coidali nigra ornato, hac antice margines laterales attingenti, 

 postice bifida ; elytris viridibus ante apicem macula suturali 

 flava ornatis ; corpore subtus nigro, flavo-maculato ; pedibus 

 piceis ; capite prothorace lsevibus ; hoc subquadrato postice 

 paullo angustato, margine antico late rotundato, angulis 

 subrotundatis ; elytris crebre rugulose punctulatis, quam 

 abdomen multo brevioribus, ad apicem dehiscentibus. 

 Long., 4 — 5 1.; lat., ^ — 1 1. 



