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fourth and fifth (the two before the last) with very lightly marked 

 lateral foveas, the last transversely rugulose. Anterior thighs 

 short and thickened in the middle. ^ with four first joints of 

 antei'ior tarsi dilatate and spongiose below ; two first joints of 

 middle tarsi spongiose below. 



^ with the small dentiform projection on the underside of the 

 anterior tibia very feeble and only perceptible with a lens, 



^ Length 15, breadth 5 mm ; c^ length 13|, breadth 4| mm. 



Hab. — Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland. Kindly sent 

 to me by Mr. Geo. Barnard. 



This is a very distinct species ; it is more parallel in shape than 

 C. semiviolacea, the prothorax is much contracted towards the base 

 so that the lateral margins are decidedly sinuate before the base 

 which they meet at right angles; the ^ has the labial palpi thicker 

 than usual in this genus, and has the intermediate tarsi with only 

 two joints, and those lightly, spongiose below ; in the ^ the small 

 dentiform projection on the lower side of each anterior tibia is 

 hardly discernible even with a lens. 



Genus Adotela. 



Adotela, Casteln. I.e. p. 174; Parroa, Casteln. I.e. p. 173. 



When de Castelnau wrote on the Australian Broscini in 1867 

 he was misled by the very different form of the palpi in the 

 different sexes in this genus, and formed a separate genus for each 

 sex, {Adotela for the ^, and Parroa for the $). In this he was 

 followed by M. Putzeys in his paper ou the Broscini in 1868*, 

 who, however, in'his Revision of 18731, recognised that the two 

 forms were merely the sexes of the same genus. . 



I am unable with the material at present at my command to 

 make a thorough definition of this genus, and for a more detailed 

 description than I am now able to give must refer the student to 

 the works of de Castelnau and IM. Putzeys quoted above. Of the 

 fourteen species of which this genus will now consist, I 

 only know seven species, and of five of these have seen but a 



, * Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1868, pp. 347, 349. 

 t Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. IV. p. 337. 



