772 AUSTRALIAN AND TASMANIAN PSELAPHIDiE. 



Readily distinguished from L.iihantasma by the palpi; in Eaf- 

 fray's figures* the apical joint is obtuse and simple at tip, and 

 with a long recurved spine from the middle; in the present 

 species the apical joint is terminated by a thin spine and a fine 

 seta, whilst the recurved spine is basal, and, as also the spine oii 

 the subapical joint, curves forward instead of backward; the two 

 spines on the subbasal joint are unequal in length, with the longer 

 one about the length of the one on the subapical joint. The 

 species also differs from Raffray's description in not being glab- 

 rous, in the eleventh joint of antennte paler than the preceding 

 ones, or the club at least unicolorous with the rest of the antenna?,, 

 elytra with the subsutural stria regular throughout, and the dorsal 

 one continued beyond middle. 



The tarsi of this genus are very peculiar, but RafFray may have 

 been mistaken in describing and figuring them as terminated by 

 single claws. At any rate in the present species some of the 

 tarsi(of the four specimens before me) appear to be each termi- 

 nated by a single claw, but this is probably due to gum, as on 

 others there are quite distinctly two very fine claws. The second 

 joint appears to have a groove into which the third is capable of 

 being partially received. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXL 



Fig. L — Sagola TasmMikv Lea. 



Fig. 2. — Batri^odes gibhicollis Lea. 



Fig. 3. — Bybaxis acanthosterna Lea. 



Fig. 4. — R. macrocephala Lea. 



Fig. 5. — Cttnisophus loiiyicornU Lea, 



Fig. 6. — Narcodes nigriventrh Lea. 



Fig.7. — Palhnholui elegans Lea. 



Fig.8. — Tyromorphus specioms King. 



Fig.9. — 2\ auricomus Lea. 



Fig, 10. — Schistodactylus brevipenni^ Lea. 



^Kev. d'Ent.. 1SS3, Plate v., figsi.20-2L 



