BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 495 



exceptionally large. All the claws are simple in both sexes. 

 The transverse denticulate tumidity a little before the apex of 

 the elytra renders this a very distinct insect. 



N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken at Burrundie by Dr. Bovill. 



Anoplognathus macleayi, sp.nov. 



Latus ; robustus ; minus convexus ; pallide brunneus ; capite 

 prothoracis (hoc fusco-umbrato) elytrorumque marginibus 

 scutello pygidio (hoc viridi-marginato) corpore subtus femori- 

 bus tibiis anticis tarsisque (abdominis segmentis postice plus 

 minusve viridibus) subaureis ; capite creberrime subtiliter 

 (postice minus crebre), prothorace sparsim subtiliter, elytris 

 minus sparsim minus subtiliter sublineatim (puncturis hie 

 illic in striis subobsoletis positis), pygidio crebre rugulose 

 parum subtiliter, punctulatis ; prothorace quam longiori fere 

 cluplo (postice quam antice plus quam dimidio) latiori, mar- 

 gine antico vix bisinuato postico utrinque leviter late (in 

 medio sat fortiter) emarginato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, 

 angulis posticis subrectis; elytris singulis apice subacuminatis, 

 lateribus apicem versus sinuatis ; pygidio sat sequaliter 

 albido-piloso ; corpore subtus (sterni abdominisque parte 

 media excepta) albido-piloso, mesosterni processu elongato 

 acuto ; tibiis anticis externe obtuse 3-dentatis. 

 Maris (?) clypeo antice rotundato-truncato leviter reflexo. 



[Long. 13, lat. 7 lines. 

 I am doubtful of the sex of my type of this species ; the 

 extremely wide membranous interval between the apical and 

 penultimate ventral segments points to its being a male, but the 

 clypeus is more like that of a female. The species bears a good 

 deal of resemblance to A. Odewahni, Macl. ; compared with that 

 species the prothorax is much less strongly bisinuate in front, has 

 much more sharply defined hind angles and is much more strongly 

 emarginate in the middle of the base, the elytra are much more 

 dehiscent at the apex, the pygidium is less finely sculptured, the 

 mesosternal process is much longer, &c; also the colouring is quite 

 different. 



