BY ARTHUK M. LEA. 733 



close to Hpex, with irregularly distributed punctures; epipleural 

 furrow deep, lightly curved and terminated at about one-fifth 

 from base and apex. Upper surface of abdomen with a small 

 medio-basal node, on each side of wliich is an extremely short 

 stria; lov/er surface soniewjjat flattened in middle. Metastemum 

 widely flattened or very gently concave in middle; on each side, 

 just behind liind coxae, with a fairly large subconical tubercle. 

 Front tibice lightly curved; very feebly dentate slightly nearer 

 base than apex. Length 14-2|^mm. 



9. Differs in having thinner antennte, with none of the joints 

 produced inwards, and the eleventh as long as the ninth and 

 tenth combined; the abdomen is convex on its under surface, and 

 the metasternum and legs are unarmed. 



ffab. — Tasmania : Hobart, Mount Wellington, Long Bay; in 

 nioss(A. M. Lea). 



In many respects close to E. quadriceps, but smaller, darker, 

 and front tibise more curved and almost simple, instead of with 

 a conspicuous median tooth or emargination, and with the ninth 

 joint as well as the seventh and eighth produced to one side. 

 From E. adumbraia it diff"ers in the front tibiae with the tooth 

 nearer the base, body more robust, and metasternum with a 

 conspicuous subapical tubercle on each side. 



Some specimens have the abdomen almost piceous. The ninth 

 joint of antennae is sometimes almost as dark as the tenth. From 

 some directions the seventh and eighth joints of the male appear 

 to be quite acutely produced inwards, and the latter to be very 

 small; the sixth also from some directions appears to be obtusely 

 produced inwards; the tenth on some appears to have a small 

 subbasal inner spine, but this is simply dUe to pubescence. The 

 dentition of the front tibiae is feeble, and from most directions 

 invisible, although fairly distinct from others. 



In this, as in many other species of the genus, the seventh, 

 eighth and ninth joints appear of different shapes according to 

 the point they are viewed from. The sixtli and tenth, and even 

 the eleventh, are also occasionally subject to such variation. 



