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than tenth. Prothorax strongly transverse, angles rounded off, transversely 
depressed near base : with sparse and minute punctures. Elytra with sides feebly 
dilated to beyond the middle, and then evenly rounded to apex : with dense and 
rather small, but sharply defined punctures. Legs moderately long and thin. 
Length, 3 mm. 
<j>. Differs in having less prominent eyes, antennae shorter and serrated only, 
and somewhat shorter legs. 
Queensland : National Park, in October (H. Hacker). Types, in Queensland 
Museum. 
The male is very distinct from all other known species of the genus by its 
pectinated antennae. In the 1909 table of the genus, it could be associated with 
//. alphabetic^, which is a much smaller and otherwise different species. At first 
glance the female resembles the female of the preceding species, but its hind tibise 
are not spurred, and the sides of the elytra have even outlines. On the female the 
metasternum is deep black, on the male only its sides are infuscated ; on the female 
also the legs are almost black. 
Carphurus nigrivarius n. sp. 
Flavous or reddish flavous, with black markings. With sparse whitish 
pubescence and straggling black hairs. 
Head with a large depression on each side in front, with a small oblique 
elevation near each eye, and a shallow depression in middle, with an impressed median 
line ; dense punctures about base, irregular elsewhere. Antennse moderately long, 
third-tenth joints serrated, eleventh slightly longer than tenth, obtusely notched at 
tip. Protliorax slightly longer than wide, with a wide shallow depression near base, 
and a few scattered punctures. Elytra with each side strongly incurved between 
middle and apical third, just before its end with a blunt-tipped process directed 
obliquely forwards, but one side of the process drawn slightly backwards ; with 
numerous punctures varying from rather small but well-defined, to very small and 
shallow. Basal joint of front tarsi not very large, with a black inner rim. Length, 
6-0-6-5 mm. 
Queensland : Stanthorpe, in October (H. Jarvis). New South Wales : 
Tamworth (A. M. Lea). Type, in South Australian Museum. 
Allied to C. cristatifrons, but head not crested, and spine on each elytron 
blunt-tipped. The black parts are a large mediobasal spot on the head, scutellum, 
a curved mark on each elytron, beginning on the base below the shoulder, and 
curved round so as to occupy most of the median third, mcsostcrnum, metasternum, 
five basal segments of abdomen, except tips and sides, parts of femora and tarsi, 
and six or seven joints of antenna?. On each of two specimens, from Stanthorpe, 
the apical segment of abdomen is entirely pale, on the Tanrvvorth one only two apical 
segments are. On the type the curved mark on each elytron does not quite extend 
to the suture, on the second specimen it touches the suture for its median third ; 
on the Tamworth one it occupies more than the median third and is, in addition, 
narrowdy continued along the suture to the base. 
A male from Brisbane, in September (H. Hacker), in the Queensland Museum, 
appears to belong to this species, but differs from the type in having the process 
on each elytron thinner and curved backwards so as to appear like a hook (the 
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