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eighth finely impressed, extending forward to humeral angle; 

 border fine, extending from scutellum to sutural apex. Length 

 6 5, breadth 3-8 mm. 



Hab.—Q. : Townsville (Dodd; Coll. Sloane). 



Tribe PHYSOCROTAPHINI. 



Carpaulu m,* n.g. 



Mentum short; lobes short; sinus with wide short triangular 

 pointed median tooth. Palpi long : labial with penultimate 

 joint long, narroAv, bearing several (4 or 5) setse on apical half of 

 front margin; apical joint as long as penultimate, of a long nar- 

 row lightly compressed triangular form, nitid, sparsely setose : 

 maxillary with second joint long, bisetigerous in front near apex; 

 second joint conical, shorter than apical, with three long setse at 

 apex; apical joint stout, almost as long as apical of labial palpi, 

 (of somewhat similar shape to apical of labial, but stouter and 

 less triangular), sparsely covered with short setse. Maxillce with 

 inner lobe hooked at apex, rather sparsely spinulose on inner side. 

 Ligula corneous, wide, free; 5-setose — three long setse at apex, two 

 similar setse placed a little backward from the lateral ones of apex : 

 jmraglosscB membranous, free from ligula; apex very narrow and 

 projecting far beyond ligula. Labritm truncate, 6-setose. 3fan- 

 dibles prominent. Head short, convex, constricted behind eyes 

 to a short subcondyliform neck received to the eyes into the sinus 

 of the prothorax; front with two short rounded impressions; two 

 supraorbital setre on each side; postocular prominences armed 

 with a small setigerous tubercle near eye. Antennoi filiform, 

 reaching backwards to basal third of elytra; all the joints setose, 

 four basal joints cylindrical and sparsely setose; seven apical joints 

 lightly compressed, pubescent; basal condyle exposed; first joint 

 about twice the length of second; second shortest, two-thirds the 

 length of third; third very little longer than fourth and succeed- 

 ing joints. Prothorax depressed, deeply emarginate at apex, 

 explanate on sides; derm punctulate; two lateral marginal setae on 



* Carpaulum, a word used by the aboriginals at Cairns, Queensland, to 

 denote an insect — on the authority of Mr. Horace W. Brown. 



