BV R. J. TILLYARD. 



755 



but without any sculpture whatever. What appears to have 

 been a crack or break in the original elytron, before it became 

 fossilised, is strongly marked on it far from the margin, as shown 

 in Text-fig. 17«. 



Specimen No.1'2. — A well-preserved and nearly complete 

 elytron of considerable size, with only the base missing; 12-5mm. 

 long by 4 '8 mm. wide. Suture very narrow; apex moderately 

 pointed. Sculpture : very finely granulated all over. (Text fig. 

 176). 



a b c ^^ d 



Text-tig. 17. 



Elytra of Coleoptera Incertiv Sedis, from the Wianainatta .Sliale Beds at 



Glenlee; Triassic. 



Specimen NoJ6. — A small convex elytron, 2-7 mm. long, by 

 i mm. wide, without any definite markings. 



S]->ecimen No. 3 J/.. — A nearly complete, very convex, elongated 

 elytron, 10 mm. long, by 3-3 mm. wide, sculptured all over with 

 shallow pits arranged in longitudinal lines. (Text-fig 17c). 



Specimen No.36. — A portion of the mould of a large elytron, 

 8'8 mm. long, measured along the preserved portion of the suture, 

 and 5*5 mm. wide. Sculpture : finely punctate all over, with 

 traces of three double longitudinal ribs, as in Text-fig. 17c^. 

 2. Ilemiptera incerUe sedis. 



Specimens numbered 7, 8, 11, 13, are fragments of strongly 

 tuberculate Hemipterous tegmina, but there is not suflicient of 

 the venation preserved to allow of classification into any definite 

 families. 



