252 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
scarcely if at all wider than head, apex strongly rounded, base 
truncate and narrowly margined its entire length; a broad shallow 
impression at base and traces of another at apex. Elytra almost 
parallel-sided, each feebly separately rounded. Length to apex of 
elytra 4 J, of abdomen 7; width 1 J mm. 
Hob. — Como, near Sydney. 
Very similar in shape to C. alterniventris and, except for the 
ventral segments, similar in colour; there are several other feeble 
distinctions. 
Carphurus longicollis, n.sp. 
^ . Elongate, shining, depressed. Black; prothorax with a faint 
purplish reflection, head (except eyes, apex and cutting edges of 
mandibles, and a brownish blotch on the undersurface), three first 
joints of antennae, prothorax, and two apical segments of abdomen, 
red. Covered all over — sparsest on head, densest towards apex of 
abdomen — with long blackish hairs; elytra and sterna at the 
sides with obscure, sparse, pale and rather short pubescence. 
Head and prothorax with sparse minute punctures; elytra densely, 
minutely and obsoletely punctate ; undersurface indistinctly 
punctate. 
Head much longer than wide; eyes small, prominent; the width 
across them much greater than at base; a shallow depression on 
each side behind the antennae; mandibles rather prominent; 
antennae rather flat, passing intermediate coxae; 1st joint slender, 
arcuate, a trifle longer than 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd subglobular, 
not quite the length of 3rd, 3rd-10th broad, subequal, 11th very 
little longer than and not quite the length of 10th; feebly corru- 
gated at base, sides and undersurface; foveae rather small and 
rough- walled Prothorax much longer than wide, as long as head, 
and at its widest slightly more than head across eyes, widest near 
apex, angles rounded; a distinct and rather deep impression at 
base, and a shallower interrupted one at apex; base narrowly 
margined. Elytra rather strongly dilating towards apex, not 
more than one and a quarter times as long as the width at apex, 
each obliquely truncate. Anterior tarsi with basal joint narrow, 
