BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
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Antenna? subpectinate. 
Abdomen testaceous, apical segments black. 
Scutellum black scapulatus, Fairm. 
Scutellum testaceous or reddish. 
Elytra with the base testaceous lepidus, n.sp. 
Elytra concolorous apiciventris, n.sp. 
Abdomen black. 
Legs testaceous rhagonychinus, Fairm. 
Legs black, with testaceous markings pictipes, n.sp. 
Abdomen black, basal segments with more 
or less red bifoveatus, n.sp. 
Balanophorus Mastersi, MacL; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 3440. 
This species ranges down the entire east coast and for some 
distance inland; specimens are in the Macleay Museum from Cape 
York to Melbourne. The male possesses a most peculiar comb; 
it is situated on the inner edge of the first joint of the anterior 
tarsi, and consists of about sixty closely set elongate teeth; it 
commences at the base and is continuous round the apex almost 
to the outer margin; under a Coddington lens it appears as a 
black margin, but a moderately low power of the microscope 
renders it visible. As will be noticed I have described a number 
of species of Carphurus and Helcog aster as possessing combs; there 
is a somewhat similar comb on the intermediate tibise of a species 
of Staphylinidce in the Collection of the Rev. R. L. King (now in 
the Sydney Museum). 
Balanophorus Macleayi, n.sp. 
Elongate, shining, subdepressed. Testaceous; apical two- 
thirds of antennae, meso-, metasternum, two apical segments of 
abdomen, four posterior femora and apex of tibise black; apical 
two-fifths of elytra dark purple. Head, prothorax, abdomen and 
legs with sparse blackish hair; elytra and sterna with sparse, 
short, pale pubescence. Head and prothorax sparsely and min- 
utely, elytra not very densely, minutely, and obsoletely punctate; 
undersurface almost impunctate. 
Head transverse; eyes very large and prominent, their com- 
bined width being more than half the total width of head; a 
