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being longer tlian, and as broad a^!, tlie clnb. It lioavs a large nnmber of sliort 

 hairs. The second seg-ment is fringed witli long liairs, wliioh do not liowevcr reach 

 to the apex of the clnb. The latter is globular and covered with minute hairs, the 

 segments being separated from one another. The hairs are especially dense on the 

 first and the last segments. The proximal surface of the first segment of the club 

 has the ajipearance of being reticulated. There is no internal thickening of the 

 ehitin from the ujiper end of the auteniial groove to the dorsal edge of the head. 

 The pronotnm is about four times as long dorsally as it is laterally, appearing almost 

 hammer-shaped in side view. It bears a comb of long spines. The episterniim of 

 the metathorax is larger than the sternal plate when viewed from the side (as on 

 the ■ slide). The abdominal tergites 1 to 7 bear short, broad, triangular ajiieal 

 spines. There are no apical bristles on the seventh tergite. Tlic ei"-hth termite is 

 large. It is triangular, with the ajiical angle rounded oti', the oblique distal margin 

 being about half as long again from the stigma to the apex as the ventral margin 

 from the apex to the base. The eighth sternite is small, triangular, and concealed 

 in the tergite, being hairy at the njiper and apical edges. The sensory plate is large, 

 being about twice as long as it is wide. The anal segment is as long as the sensory 

 jdate. The fifth tarsal segment bears five lateral bristles, besides a thin apical hair. 

 There are no fine hairs on the ventral surface of this segment. It bears, however, 

 two short stout bristles at the apex, one placed obliquely behind the other, and 

 jiroximally of them a pair of short slender hairs. There is one bursa copulatrix. 

 The cavities into which the stigmata open are large and rounded. 



The insect for the reception of which we have to propose the present genus does 

 not fit into Ci'ratoph/Utis or any other genus. In respect to the triangular eightii 

 abdominal tergite the insect reseraldes MacrojmjUa, described above, but in other 

 respects the genera Macropsylla and Uropsijlla are markedly different. 



It is, of course, impossible to decide from one species which characters are of 

 generic value and which only of specific. We have no doubt, however, that some 

 of the very striking characteristics mentioned above will be found in other species, 

 when the Australian Pulicid fauna become better known. 



8. Uropsylla tasmanicus spec. nov. (Fl. XIV. fig. 11, 12). 



Head.— The head (PI. XH'. fig. ] 1) is about as high as it is long. It is evenly 

 rounded in front. There is no frontal notch. In addition to the row of bristles 

 situated beneath the eye there are two rows before the eye, and two more bristles 

 above these, besides a number of short hairs situated above the eye. The occiput, 

 which is punctured dorsally like the frons, bears a great number of small hairs from 

 tie base of the autennal groove to the middle of the same, and a regular row of 

 rather stouter hairs from here to the ventral corner. There are laterally two pairs 

 of bristles, and near the hinder edge a row of seven long bristles on each "side. The 

 rostrum does not reach to the apex of the forecoxa. The labial palpus 'consists of 

 five segments, of which the first four are nearly of equal length, while the last is 

 half as long again. The first segment of the maxillary jialpus is longer than the 

 fourth and half as long again as the second, the third being hardly half the length 

 of the first. 



Thorax.— The jjronotum bears one regular row of bristles and a comb of thirty 

 spines. The mesonotnm is covered with short and rather stout hairs all over from 

 the base to the postmedian row of long bristles. The episternum bears also many 



