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NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
and not reaching the middle, the two apical segments only of the 
abdomen black, and all the legs testaceous, tarsi except basal 
joints black. 
As upon a careful comparison of my two specimens — both 
males — I can find absolutely no difference in shape, I have con- 
sidered it advisable to describe the most strongly marked specimen 
as a species, ranking the other as a variety. I captured them at 
the same time. 
Carphurus bifoveatus, n.sp. 
Elongate, shining, depressed. Head black; undersurface of 
basal joint of antennae and almost the entire second reddish; palpi 
obscure red; prothorax red; elytra dark violet-blue, meso- and 
metasternum black; abdominal segments black — the first almost 
entirely, and the others except apical margined with red. Mode- 
rately densely clothed all over with long blackish hairs. Head 
and prothorax sparsely and minutely punctate, elytra with minute 
and almost obliterated punctures, apex and sides of meso- and 
sides of metasternum minutely but distinctly punctate, the abdo- 
men very minutely. 
Head about as long as wide; a longitudinal excavation on each 
side near the eyes (from some directions appearing as fovese); 
antenna? short, scarcely passing intermediate coxas, 1st joint large, 
as long as 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd short, globular, 3rd obconic, 4 th- 
10th subpectinate, 11th as long as the inner length of 10th; 
feebly corrugated; fovea? of undersurface large, rough-walled, 
approximate. Prothorax strongly rounded, a little longer than 
wide, the width of head across eyes; a shallow transverse impres- 
sion at base, and a still shallower one at apex. Elytra feebly 
dilating towards apex, each feebly separately rounded. Anterior 
tarsi with basal joint rather wide, and fully as long as claw joint. 
Length to apex of elytra 3, of abdomen 5|; width 1 mm. 
i7a&.— Galston (Mr. D. Dumbrell). 
A distinct and very pretty little species. 
C. cyanipennis, Macl. ; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3422. 
Hob. — Tamworth, Whitton (Lea). S. Australia (Macleay 
Museum). 
