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Telephorus gracilipictus, Lea. 

 The female of this species differs f rom tlie male in having 

 the head narrower across the eyes, less of the muzzle flavous, 

 and the antennae and legs shorter. 



Telephorus apicicollis, n. sp. 



d . Flavous, most of elytra and of abdomen black or 

 infuscated. Rather densely clothed with short, ashen 

 pubescence. 



Head rather wide and flat, clypeus notched in middle; 

 with very minute punctures, dense in places. Eyes rather 

 large. Antennae long and thin, third joint slightly shorter 

 and wider than fourth. Prothorax distinctly longer than 

 wide, apex produced in an even curve over prothorax, and 

 with distinct asperate punctures, elsewhere with very minute 

 punctures ; a large depression on each side near apex, and 

 a shallow one in middle of base. Elytra long, thin, and 

 almost parallel-sided; with dense and minute punctures, 

 interspersed with numerous larger (but still small) asperate 

 ones, sparser about base than elsewhere; with very feeble 

 remnants of discal costae. Apical segment of abdomen 

 deeply notched. Legs long and rather thin. Length, 

 8*5-9 mm. 



Hab. — Northern Territory: Melville Island (W. D. Dodd 

 and G. F. Hill), Bathurst Island (Hill). Type, I. 11855. 



Allied to T. macrops^) but prothorax decidedly longer, 

 and elytra, except for a small basal portion, deeply infuscated 

 or black; in my tabled it would be associated with T. 

 immaturus, and T. nigroterminalis, to which, however, it is 

 not very close. The produced part of the prothorax has a 

 thin apical fringe, but it appears to be easily abraded. The 

 flavous portion of the elytra is from about half to three- 

 fourths the length of the prothorax ; on the type it is narrowly 

 continued along the sides and suture for a short distance; 

 on a second specimen it is very narrowly continued almost 

 to the apex; on a third specimen it is sharply limited near 

 the base; the infuscation of the abdomen is less pronounced 

 than that of the elytra. 



Selenurus annulatus, Macl. 



There are two forms of this species before me. On the 

 first and evidently the typical one (as the flavous portion 

 extends backwards along the suture, on several specimens in 



(8) In the original description two figures (157 and 173) were 

 quoted for this species in error. 



(9) Lea, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1909, p. 113. 



