BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 1239 



much wider than the intermediate, their inner apical angle being 

 fairly defined. The three external teeth of the front tibiae are 

 strongly developed, but are not very sharp. The hind claws have 

 a decidedly bifid appearance owing to the apical projection of the 

 basal piece (the basal piece itself being fully twice as large as the 

 apical) standing out very conspicuously, but when examined it ig 

 seen to be less than half as large as the apical piece. 

 Mulwala, N.S.W. ; taken by Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



H. Excisus, sp.nov. 



Sat elongatus; postice vix dilatatus; minus hitidus ; ferrugineo- 

 piceus, pilis sat brevibus adpressis minus crebre vestitus ; crebre 

 subtiliter (capite crassius excepto) punctulatus ; clypeo medio 

 fortiter arcuatim exciso, labro clypei superficiem haud attingenti ; 

 antennis 9-articulatis ; unguiculis appendiculatis. 



[Long. 5, ]at. 21 lines. 



The clypeus is very peculiar in shape, appearing to have had a 

 small (semicircular) piece cut out of the middle of its front, the 

 cavity thus formed (reaching back about a third of the distance 

 from the front margin to the clypeal suture) having a continuous 

 reflexed margin, and leaving the labrum distinctly visible from 

 above, although the latter does not rise to the level of the clypeiis ; 

 the clypeus does not quite form a continuous plane with the rest 

 of the head ; the clypeal suture is well marked and feebly arched. 

 The prothorax is | again as wide as long, the base (which is 

 scarcely bilobed and only feebly convex hindward) being not quite 

 half again as wide as the front which is deeply concave with sharp 

 strongly produced angles ; the sides ane gently arched in front and 

 almost parallel behind, the hind angles (viewed from above) sharply 

 rectangular ; the puncturation is a little asperate and quite close, 

 so that about 30 punctures or more of average distance apart 

 would range down the middle line. The elytra are punctured 

 smoothly and a little more finely and sparsely than the prothorax ; 

 their transverse wrinkling is fine and not very noticeable, their 

 Literal fringe normal, their apical membrane obsolete. The under- 

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