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XOTES ox SOME AUSTRALIAN TESEBRIOXIDAE, 



Phaennis fasc-icidata Champ. The female only of this species was described. 

 I have lately seen a male example from Zeehan, Tasmania [Simson Coll., South 

 Australian Museum] and I possess another taken by Dr. Ferguson in the Blue 

 Mountains, N.S.W. The head has pronounced sexual eharactei-s as follows : 



c?. Head with three prominent horns; one, sharply conical, on centre of 

 forehead, pointing oblif|uely backwards, and one on each side of head, triangular, 

 forming a projection over the points of insertion of the antennae. 



AxEiiiA cAVLOBioiDES, n.sp. (Text-fig. 2 . ) 



Short, rather squarely ovate, black, pronotum sub-opacjue, elytra i-atlier nitid, 

 upper sui'face sparsely clothed at sides with upright reddish hair. Head wide, 

 labrum evident, epistoma with circular excision in front, without defined sulcus 

 behind, and rounded in a single curve from the apical excision to behind the eyes; 

 apical joints of palpi subulate, eyes large, almost completely divided by a narrow 

 canthus; closely punctate; antennae short, joints trapezoidal, gi-adually enlarging 

 to the 10th; apical narrower than preceding and widely ovate. Prothorax widely 

 transverse, truncate at ajiex and base, slightly narrowed at the former, sides 

 rounded, all angles obtuse, densely and finely punctate, without medial line or 

 foveae. Seutelbim triangular. Eh/fra con^•ex laterally, of same width as pro- 



Text-fig. 2. 

 Aiieiiiia caii/ohioides, n.sp. 2a, front leg; 2b, mid leg; 2c, hind leg. 



thorax at base, sides parallel, without evident margin, the whole finely punctate, 

 with some transverse strioles; the punctures larger and less dense than on pro- 

 notum. Epipleurae narrow, body winged, mctasteruum coarsely punctate, tibiae 

 dentate on outside margin, spinose and pectinate at the enlarged apex; tarsi witli 

 a few spiny bristles, claws very tine. Dimensions: 5 — 6 ^ 2i — 3 mm. 



Hab.—W.A.: Swan River and Geraldton (J. Clark), Yallingap. (R. E. 

 Turner, in British Museum). 



Twenty specimens examined of this scarab-like Tenebrionid, sent to me, as 

 also to the South Australian Museum, by Mr. Clark. I had already described 

 this as a new genus and species, but a timely note from Mr. Blair, to whom [ 

 had sent a specimen, brought an additional example taken by Dr. Turner, with 

 the information "Anemia sp.(prob)n., near .1. sardoa Gene and A. denticulata 

 WoU; but differs from both in having thorax much more finely and closely punc- 

 tate. From A. sardoa it differs also in its shorter, more squat shape." The 



