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palporum maxillarium articulo ultimo leviter ,'securiformi, 

 antennis prothoracis basin paullo superantibus ; prothorace 

 quam latiori vix longiori, supra antice ut caput (in disco 

 retrorsum gradatim minus crebre) ru^uloso, insequali (antice 

 angulatim mox ante basin recte transversim sulcato, pone 

 sulcum anticum impresso, ante basin 3-tuberculato), lateri- 

 bus mediis fortiter rotundato dilatatis ; elytris a basi ultra 

 medium seriatim sat grosse foveolatis, alibi laevibus. Long., 

 4 1.; lat, 1 T V 1. 



Much resembling N. {Opilo) sexnotatus, Westw., but with the 

 apical joint of the maxillary palpi so feebly securiform as to 

 suggest generic distinction. Compared with sexnotatus the 

 markings on the elytra are whitish instead of yellow, the sub- 

 apical spot wanting but the whole apex faintly reddish and 

 densely clothed with whitish pubescence ; the femora entirely 

 dark ; the head and pronotum much more strongly rugulose, the 

 surface of the latter being considerably more uneven behind ; 

 the elytra narrower at the base and consequently more dilated 

 near the apex. I do not find any structural diS'erence between 

 this species and sexnotatus except that in the maxillary palpi and 

 a trifle less elongation of the hind femora. 



Victoria (Dividing Range). 



EBURIPHORA. 



This generic name must be removed from the Australian 

 Catalogue, as its presence there rests on the authority of Klug's 

 Opilus patricius having been referred to Eburiphora. This Tas- 

 manian insect is clearly identical with Westwood's 0. sexnotatus 

 (also from Tasmania, — a species discussed above) and is certainly 

 not an Eburiphora {inter alia it has not appendiculate claws). 

 As Klug's is the older name the species must be known as 

 patricia, Klug. 



TARSOSTENUS. 



I do not believe that any member of this genus is native to 

 Australia. I have myself taken and recorded the occurrence of 

 T. univittatus, Rossi, near Adelaide, but it is no doubt introduced 

 from some other country. The following notes relate to the three 

 really Australian species that have been attributed to the genus. 



T. Mastersi, Macl. The description does not read at all like 

 that of an insect very closely resembling Tarsostenus ; and if 

 Macleay's statement " eyes coarsely granulate " be correct, the 

 word " coarsely" being used in the sense Lacordaire uses it of 

 Clerid genera, the species cannot be placed even near Tarsostenus. 



T. zonatus, Blanch. This species is certainly identical with 

 Paratillus (Cirrus) car us, Newm. Newman's name has priority. 



T. pulcker, Macl. The description of this insect does not 



