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in having the subapical impression of prothorax shallower, less of it black, with the 
oblique sub basal impressions reduced to a fovea on each side, and not marked by 
black fascicles ; the antennae are also somewhat shorter and thinner, much as on the 
female of that species. The black parts are the base of the head, seven apical joints 
of antennae and part of the preceding one, a small medioapical clothed spot on 
pronotum, scutellum, mesosternum, metasternum, abdomen (except the tip and 
the sides of the other segments), femora, and parts of tarsi ; the elytra are entirely 
dark coppery green . 
Carphurus sagittifer n. sp. 
<$. Flavous ; elytra, except basal fifth, apical segment of abdomen, most 
of middle and of hind legs, and five or six apical joints of antennae, black or blackish. 
With sparse pubescence, and numerous not very long, dark hairs. 
Head rather large, with two fairly large foveae in front (open posteriorly, 
closed in front), a shallow', transverse, postmedian impression ; with dense punctures 
towards base, sparse elsewdiere. Eyes rather large and prominent. Antenna) 
rather long, fourth-tenth joints strongly serrated. Prothorax slightly longer than 
wide, a shallow transverse impression near apex and another near base ; with a few r 
scattered punctures. Elytra comparatively long ; with crowded small, rugose 
punctures. Basal joint of front tarsi about as long as the rest combined, with a black 
inner comb. Length, 6-8 mm. 
<j>. Differs in having the head smaller, with shallower impressions, eyes 
smaller, antennae slightly shorter, but almost as strongly serrated, and basal joint 
of front tarsi much shorter and simple. 
Queensland : Cairns district (E. P. Dodd). Types, in South Australian 
Museum. 
Belongs to a group of which it is not always easy to decide by a single 
specimen if it is a male Carphurus , or a female Balanophorus, but as there are two 
females, with simple front tarsi, it is certainly a Carphurus . In appearance it is 
fairly close to C. elegans and longue, but the male of the former has an unusually 
long basal joint of front tarsi, and the female of the latter has long, thin, and scarcely 
serrated antennae. Rather close to C. compsus, but each of the sixth-tenth joints of 
antennas has its oblique anterior edge at least half as long again as the outer edge 
(where the joints are attached to each other), but on compsus the oblique anterior 
edge is not as long as the outer edge, so that the serrations on the latter (although 
decided) are much less pronounced than on the present species ; on the female of 
compsus they are not even strongly serrated. The elytra are purplish black rather 
than a true black, but on one female the dark part has a slight coppery gloss ; on 
each of the females, and on a second male, the middle legs are almost entirely pale. 
On the type male only the metasternum is partly infuscated. The cephalic foveae 
of the male are so placed that their front is bounded by a broad, elevated arrowhead. 
Carphurus armicollis n. sp. 
Of a dingy flavous brown ; mesosternum, metasternum, abdomen, most 
of legs, palpi, and apical half of antennae, black or infuscated. With sparse, white 
pubescence, and straggling, black hairs. 
Head with an obtuse median elevation, with shallow impressions before and 
behind it ; with irregularly distributed punctures, dense in parts. Antennae 
moderately long, slightly serrated. Prothorax distinctly longer than wide, with 
two acute points marking a distinct medioapical notch ; with numerous irregularly 
