'538 ON A SPECIES OF THE PHASHATIDjE, 



Mr. Wilkinson has kindly presented me with the specimens he 

 exhibited at last meeting. I find them to be of a new and 

 nndescribed species, closely allied to the well-known Sydney 

 species Podocanthus typlion, but differing in some important 

 particulars. I name it after its discoverer. 



Podocanthus Wilkinsoni. 



Head above, behind the antennae, with several impressed 

 longitudinal lines, antennre twenty-four jointed, about the length 

 of the anterior legs in the male, shorter in the female. Prothorax 

 narrower than the head, and becoming narrower to its junction 

 with the mesothorax, its length being about equal to the length 

 of the head behind the antennas ; the mesothorax is rather 

 narrower and scarcely longer than the prothorax except at its 

 base, where it widens out ; it is covered beneath and on the sides 

 with small tubercles, and on the back with a double row of five 

 larger tubercles ; the metathorax is longer than the mesothorax, 

 and much wider ; it is sharply tubercutated beneath, as are also, 

 though in a less degree, the abdominal segments. The tegmina 

 are rather pointed— in the female half the length of the wings, 

 in the male about one-third. The wings are moderately large 

 and equal in both sexes. The legs are rather short ; the hind 

 femora strongly dentated beneath on the inner and outer edge, 

 with a deep groove between ; the intermediate femora are armed 

 in the same way, but not so strongly ; and the anterior are 

 grooved beneath, but not dentated. The basal joint of the tarsi 

 is a little the longest, except in the intermediate legs. 



The specimens have been in spirits and therefore it is impossible 

 to make out the colouration with certainty, but the body seems 

 to have been of a reddish-brown, almost black beneath, the wing 

 coverts yellowish, with the median carina brown, the costal area 

 of the wings brownish-yellow, and the wings themselves hyaline, 

 without any visible rosy tint. Length of male three inches six 

 lines ; the female is not longer nor bulkier than the male. This 



