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me by Mr. F. P. Dodd from K^uranda, Queensland, have been 

 compared with Macleay's type in the Macleay Museum. 



This species evidently never came under the observation of the 

 late M. Tschitscherine;* I regard it as a primitive form apparently 

 more allied to Tschitscherine's genus Liopasaf than to any other 

 described form. 



Genus S e t a l i s. 



Setalis rubripes, n.sp. 



Oblong, oval, robust. Head small (1*4 mm. across eyes), front 

 strongly bi-impressed; eyes hemispherical, distant from buccal 

 fissure beneath; prothorax convex, deeply bi-impressed on each 

 side of base; two marginal setae on each side, anterior seta at 

 anterior third, posterior near basal angle at inner side of lateral 

 channel ; el3^tra convex, strongly crenulate-striate, without 

 scutellar striole, third interstice impunctate. Black ; legs, 

 antennae, and mouth-parts red. 



Prothorax subcordate (1-8 x 2*3 mm.), widest about middle, 

 wider at base /(2 mm.) than at apex (1-4 mm.); sides arcuate, 

 lightly narrowed to base; apex lightly emarginate, angles obtuse; 

 base emarginate in middle; basal angles subrectangular (obtuse 

 but marked); lateral border narrow; marginal channel narrow, 

 ending abruptly just before base; median line lightly marked on 

 disc; inner lateral basal impression deep, short, sulciform, not 

 reaching base; inner basal impression forming a shallow oblong 

 fovea. El3^tra oval (4 x 2-7 mm.), convex, declivous to base; 

 striae deep, crenulate; interstices convex, sixth and ninth con- 

 tiguous near apex, seventh wide and well developed on basal 

 two- thirds, eighth only developed (and linear) on basal third, 

 ninth seriate-punctate; basal border forming a short strong tooth 

 at humeral angles; apex sinuate on each side. Metasternum 

 very short and bearing about three fine punctures on each side 



* Vide supra under Castelnaudia sp. p. 360. 



t Mr. H. J. Carter recently found Liopasa crepera Tschitgch., on the 

 Tweed River, N.S.W.; its exact habitat has not been recorded before. It 

 resembles Notonoinus angustibasis SI. , in f aeies and striation of elytra. 



