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third, almost impunctate. Legs long, basal joint of front tarsi with a small, black, 
inner comb. Length, 3 mm. 
Queensland : Somerset (C. T. McNamara). Type (unique), in South Australian 
Museum. 
Allied to N. semifiavus , but antennae thinner (only the second joint transverse), 
elytra with the black part obtusely advanced suturally, nowhere opaque, and impressed 
on each side near apex. The fiavous parts are the head, prothorax, basal fourth of 
elytra (shoulders infuscated), prosternum, mesosternum, antennae (three apical 
joints infuscated), and legs (tibiae slightly infuscated). The cephalic tubercle, from 
behind, appears simple, from the sides it is seen to be slightly impressed in the middle. 
Neocarphurus insignis n. sp. 
cj. Black and fiavous. With sparse white pubescence and straggling hairs on 
abdomen, legs, and basal joint of antennae. 
Head large, surface very uneven : clypeus long, with a median elevation. 
Byes large, lateral, and pointed in front. Antennae thin, none of the joints transverse. 
Prothorax longer than wide, sides narrowed from apex to base, which is strongly 
depressed, apex obtusely incurved at middle ; with a median line distinct on basal 
half, and traceable to apex ; with small, rugose punctures. Elytra parallel -sided, 
slightly longer than head and prothorax combined ; with dense, sharply defined 
punctures of moderate size. Legs long and very thin, basal joint of front tarsi w T ith 
a black inner comb. Length, 4 mm. 
New Guinea : Finsch Haven (Rev. L. Wagner). Type, in South Australian 
Museum . 
The dense and sharply defined punctures on the elytra are at variance with 
all other species of the genus, but the wide apex of prothorax, its strongly narrowed 
and greatly depressed base, and eyes (when wet) of a brilliant emerald green, are 
as on others of the genus ; which is now first recorded from New Guinea. On the 
type there is a compound interocular elevation, with a small spine directed forw ards ; 
between it and each eye there is a round fovea, the two obtusely connected in front, 
behind it there is another fovea, which is continued under the apex of prothorax : 
behind each eye there is also a fovea, which is distinct only from the side. On a 
second specimen the head has the mediobasal fovea quite as large as on the type, 
the postocular fovea? are similar, but the space between the eyes and in front is 
irregularly undulating, rather than foveate and tuberculate. The differences are 
evidently due to post-mortem shrinkage. The fiavous parts are the head, prothorax 
(except for a large triangular basal infuscation), shoulders, prosternum, mesosternum. 
metasternal episterna, legs (except hind coxa?), and antennae (the apical joints slightly 
infuscated). The abdomen, when not contracted, is longer than the elytra. 
Neocarphurus coatesi Lea. 
Four specimens (sexes) of this species, from the National Park of Queensland, 
differ from the types in having the apical two-thirds of prothorax deeply infuscated 
or blackish. 
Balanophorus biplag'iatus Fairm. 
Two specimens (sexes) from Cairns possibly belong to this species (described 
originally as from Peak Downs). They differ, however, from the description in 
