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much wider than prothorax, much shorter than abdomen, 

 strongly narrowed posteriorly, with a feeble and rather short 

 discal costa on each; with dense and minute, rugulose 

 punctures or shagreen ed. Legs long and thin. Length 



(cf, 9), 6-9 mm. 



9 . Differs in having somewhat smaller, but still very 

 prominent eyes, and somewhat shorter antennae and legs. 



Eab. —Queensland: Coen River (W. D. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 12253. 



Close to S. sydneyanus, but larger, antennae longer, 

 elytra much less coarsely shagreen ed, scutellum flavous 

 (instead of black), more of the legs flavous, and prothoracic 

 blotch of different shape; the blotch is of irregular shape, 

 slightly dilated in front and behind, and narrowly touches 

 each side about the middle. The under-surface of several 

 of the basal joints of antennae are obscurely pale. The 

 types are fastened together, as they were taken in cop., and 

 their abdomens are greatly shrivelled. 



Selenurus flavoinclusus, n. sp. 



<S . Black and flavous. Densely clothed with short 

 pubescence, varying in colour with the derm. 



Head rather wide across eyes, strongly narrowed to 

 base; with dense and minute punctures. Antennae long 

 and thin, third joint about half the length of fourth, 

 Prothorax considerably longer than wide, disc uneven, sides 

 and suture thickened, apex produced over base of head; 

 punctures very minute. Elytra much wider than prothorax, 

 long, thin, and regularly decreasing in width posteriorly, 

 with tips diverging from suture; with dense and fine 

 rugulose punctures or shagreened. Subapical segment of 

 abdomen semicircularly incised. Legs long and thin. Length, 

 10-13 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (E. Allen and F. 

 P. Dodd). Type, I. 11852. 



The pale parts are portion of the muzzle, prothorax, 

 scutellum, elytra (base suture and sides narrowly black, but 

 tips entirely pale), parts of sterna,, tips of abdominal 

 segments, basal half of femora, and extreme base of tibiae. 

 The pale tips of the elytra associate the species with 

 S. annulatus, from which it differs in being larger, elytra 

 longer, with the flavous portion of each considerably longer, 

 only just interrupted before the apex, instead of separated 

 from the tips by a wide black band, the suture also is dark 

 from the base to just before the tips, so that the flavous 

 portion is separately enclosed on each elytron; on apmulatus 

 the larger flavous portion is continuous across the suture ; 



