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AUSTRALIAN TKNPIBRIONIDiE, 



at apex. Tarsi tomentose, the claw-joint nearly as long as the 

 rest combined, the first- longer than the second, intercoxal pro- 

 cess wide, rounded in front and carinate at margins. 



A genus not very near any existing Australian genus of the 

 Tenehiionidfe. The head and thorax are somewhat as in Asphn/n.-i 

 Pasc, but with a very different structure of leg, and elytra! 

 sculpture. 



Sloanka costata, n.sp. 

 Ovate, depressed, glabrous, opaque brownish-black above, nitid 

 beneath; palpi, tarsi, and apical joints of antenna' reddish, the 

 tarsi clothed with red tomentmn. 



//i^«c^trapeziform, densely and finely punctate, the sides slightly 

 raised behind and arcuate; epistoma convex, straight in front 

 and limited 1)eliind by a straight, obscure depression; antennse 



with basal joints nitid and bead-like, 

 third joint slightU' longer tlum fourth, 

 the last four opacjue and hairy. Pro- 

 tJiorax 6"5 x 7 nmi., widest in front of 

 middle, trisinuate at apex, the middle 

 with a wide triangular insertion, an- 

 terior angles widely rounded and feebly 

 produced, sides slightly rounded on an- 

 terior half, sinuately narrowed behind, 

 posterior angles acute, a little deflexed 

 and produced, base bisinuate; foliate 

 margins concave within, extreme bor- 

 der narrowly raised, contiruied on 

 apex, widened at the posterior angles, 

 obsolete at base, surface finely and 

 closely punctate on disc, the punctures 

 subobsolete in the middle, coarser on sides and base, the foliate 

 margins and regions near posterior angles coarsely rugose, a fine 

 medial line sometimes traceable. Scutellum forming a strongly 

 transverse, smooth ridge. Elytra wider than prothorax at base 

 and not quite twice as long; shoulders prominent, squarely rounded 

 and formed by the reflexed epipleural fold, sides feebly widened 



Text-fig. 1. 

 iS'. costata, n.sp. 



