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Two specimens from Hobart (A. M. Lea) agree in 

 structure with the type, but have the elytra reddish, with 

 many infuscated spots or blotches, and these, with the pale 

 patches of clothing, give them a curiously speckled appear- 

 ance ; the prothorax has the sides rather widely diluted with 

 red; the under-surface is reddish, except for the metasternum 

 and for three black spots on each of the second to fourth 

 segments of abdomen. A specimen from Brighton (Simson's 

 collection) may also belong to the species, but is of an almost 

 uniform rusty-brown colour, with the pubescence on the 

 upper-surface scarcely variegated; the median line of its 

 prothorax is less distinct than on the type, and the two 

 small submedian transverse impressions are just traceable. A 

 specimen from the Tasmanian Lakes (Blackburn's collection) 

 in colour is very similar to one of the Hobart specimens, but 

 the prothoracic impressions are even less distinct than on 

 the one from Brighton. Looking at these specimens from a 

 distance the elytra of each of the seven arjpear to have two 

 thin and more or less vague pale fasciae : one about the 

 middle, the othei half-way between the first and the apex. 



M AL ACODERMID AE . 



Carphurus myrmecophilus, n. sp. 



o* . Red; elytra (suture excepted), mesosternum, metas- 

 ternum, and parts of abdomen and of legs more or less deeply 

 infuscated. With numerous long, straggling, dark hairs, 

 more numerous on elytra and abdomen than elsewhere. 



Head with two feeble longitudinal depressions between 

 eyes, bounded by obscure ridges, the latter transversely con- 

 joined behind eyes; with fairly dense but somewhat irregular 

 punctures. Eyes rather small, but lateral and prominent. 

 Antennae extending to about middle of elytra, first joint 

 moderately stout, about as long as second and third combined, 

 second subglolular but slightly wider than long, third slightly 

 wider and larger, , third-tenth subequal in length, fourth- 

 tenth conspicuously wider than long, each joined to the 

 middle of the preceding one by a thin stalk, eleventh distinctly 

 longer than tenth, its tip bilobed. Prothorax slightly wider 

 than long, sides evenly rounded, base depressed ; almost 

 impunctate. Elytra not much longer than their greatest 

 width, which is just beyond the middle ; with numerous 

 shallow punctures and feeble granules. Legs moderately long, 

 basal joint of front tarsi with a narrow black rim at outer 

 apex. Length, 4*50-5 mm. 



Rah. — South Australia: Lucindale, several specimens 

 from a nest of Iridomyrmex detect u* (B. A. Feuerheerdt). 

 Type, I. 10680. 



