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Telura vitticollis, Er. 



This species is fairly common at night on eucalyptus 

 foliage in Tasmania, and it occurs also in New South Wales 

 (Mount Kosciusko), Victoria (Mounts Buffalo and Hotham), 

 and South Australia (Mount Lofty). Specimens vary from 

 having the upper-surface entirely flavous, to the prothorax 

 bivittate, and the elytra quadrivittate. Erichson described the 

 club of the antennae as three-jointed, but this is true only of 

 the female, and Waterhouse has already pointed out that in 

 the male it is five-jointed. 



Telura clypealis, n. sp. 



Flavous, basal two-thirds of head deeply infuscated 

 (almost black), prothorax narrowly infuscated in middle of 

 apex, and obscurely along middle to base, elytra with a 

 sharply-defined and almost black vitta from base to near apex. 

 Prothorax with four long hairs on each side, rest of upper- 

 surface glabrous; under-surface and legs sparsely clothed, 

 four segments of abdomen each with a transverse row of 

 setiferous granules. 



Head moderately convex, and with rather small punc- 

 tures. Clypeus with apex conspicuously produced in middle, 

 margins rather strongly upturned ; punctures larger than 

 between eyes but still small. Antennae nine-, club three- 

 jointed. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides strongly and 

 evenly rounded, front angles rather strongly produced and 

 acute, hind ones rounded off; punctures small, varying slightly 

 in size and density, but nowhere crowded. Elytra narrow, 

 sides slightly dilated in middle ; with regular striae, the sutural 

 one with distinct but shallow punctures ; interstices with fairly 

 numerous, small, but sharply-defined punctures, becoming 

 larger about base. Pygidium with minute and rather dense 

 subasperate punctures. Legs long and thin; front tibiae 

 strongly tridentate ; basal joint of hind tarsi slightly shorter 

 than second. Length, 11 mm. 



Bab. — Western Australia: Beverley (E. F. du Boulay). 

 Type (unique), I. 4835. 



The narrow body, long and thin legs, tridentate front 

 tibiae, eyes large and scarcely visibly faceted, and elytral striae 

 not geminately arranged, indicate that this species, if not a 

 Telura is extremely close to it, and provisionally, at least, may 

 be referred to it; the clypeus is certainly very different to that 

 of vitticollis, but in many allied genera it varies considerably. 

 The vitta of the elytra is sharply defined, at the base it 

 extends across four interstices on each, but it rapidly narrows 

 till it only covers two, thence being parallel-sided almost to 



