BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 589 



on lower side near base; intermediate tibiae strongly curved (as 

 are also the anterior tibiae). Length 7 '8 mm. 



Hah. — S. A. : Adelaide (fide Castelnau) — N.S. W. : Mulwala and 

 Urana (Sloane), Armidale (Lea). 



PtH.EBOLESTES,* n.gen. 



Mentnm transverse; sinus deep (about one-half length of 

 mentum), lightly oblique on sides, bordered, a short wide median 

 prominence with widely rounded apex ; lobes wide, rounded 

 on external side, pointed at apex (the point formed by a 

 short triangular projection of epilobes). Palpi: labial elongate; 

 penultimate joint narrow, lightl}^ incrassate, bisetigerous in 

 front (apical seta very near apex); apical joint about as long 

 as penultimate, narrow, lightly incrassate, obtusely truncate 

 at apex : nLaxillary with second joint large, thick; two apical 

 joints narrow, equal, hardly as long as apical joint of labial. 

 Maxilhe with inner lobe narrow, strongly hooked at apex, not 

 ciliate on inner side but armed with two widel}^ plnced slender 

 spiniform teeth rising from prominences of inner margin, a long- 

 slender bristle before and after the anterior of these teeth: outer 

 lobe as long as inner. Labium corneous, wide at apex, two long 

 widely placed set^ at apex; paraglossia narrow, free and extending 

 at apex beyond ligula. Labrum short, transverse; apex widely 

 and lightly emarginate, and sexsetose. Clijpeus truncate, a 

 setigerous pore on each side. Mandibles sLout, hooked; a short 

 tooth on inner side near base; a setigerous puncture in scrobe of 

 outer side. Aiitennce slender, long; joints 5-1 1 lightly compressed, 

 pubescent; three basal joints cylindrical, glabrous — 1st stout, not 

 long; 'Ind slender, short (about one-half length of 1st); 3rd 

 slender, about equal in length to 1st; 4th about as thick as 5th, 

 pubescent, (but narrow, cylindrical and glabrous at base). Head 

 small, lightly and obliquely narrowed behind eyes; front biim- 

 pressed; two supraorbital setigerous punctures on each side, e3^es 

 prominent. Prothorax depressed, lightly transverse; apex and 



* pai(Bos, bandy legged; Xrjo-rrjs, a ravager. /vM^T,"o , ^ / 



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