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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
Elytra about as long as head and prothorax combined, about one 
and a half times as long as the width at base, each feebly 
separately rounded (almost truncate), shoulders very feebly 
rounded. Length to apex of elytra 2J, of abdomen 5J; width 
1 mm. 
Hah.— .Forest Reefs, N.S.W. 
A very distinct species, unlike any other known to me; it 
should perhaps constitute the type of a new genus. 
Carphurus fasciipennis, Fairm., Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3426. 
This is a somewhat common species in Northern Queensland. 
The elytral fascia is subject to considerable variation; some speci- 
mens have it occupying almost the entire surface, in others it is 
small, appearing as a dark sutural macula, and in others again it 
is entirely obsolete. Some specimens are twice as large as others. 
Carphurus angustatus, n.sp. 
Very narrow, parallel-sided, depressed, feebly shining. 
Black; first three antennal joints beneath, palpi (except apical 
joint), a semicircle at base of undersurface of head, and pro- 
thorax, red; elytra dark green (in some lights with an obscure 
purplish reflection); base of cox£e diluted with red. Covered all 
over with long blackish hair, and — except on prothorax — with short 
pale pubescence. Head densely — especially at sides — and minutely 
punctate; prothorax sparsely and obsoletely, the elytra densely, 
not very strongly, and somewhat rugosely punctate; sides of meso- 
and metasternum distinctly but minutely, the abdomen very 
minutely punctate. 
Head longer than wide; eyes small, moderately prominent; a 
depression on each side forming an oblique ridge behind the base 
of the antennae, a very shallow impression on the disk (from 
behind appearing as a small fovea); antennae slender, almost 
reaching apex of elytra, joints cylindrical, 1st fully as long as 2nd- 
3rd combined, 2nd distinctly shorter than 3rd, 3rd-10th gradually 
increasing in length, 11th acuminate, scarcely one and a half 
times as long as 10th; base and sides feebly corrugated; fovese of 
