888 A REVISION OP THE STAPHYLIXIDiE OF AUSTRALIA, 



Allied to Tachinus and Cilea, which it resembles in having a 

 large scutellum and the mesostemum carinate, but distinguished 

 by having its abdomen margined only at the base (and that very 

 feebly), the elytra truncate at the extremity with their external 

 apical angles straight, and the tarsi shorter. 



88. Tachinoderus haemorrhous. 



Tachinoderus haemorrhous, Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Genov. X., 

 p. 277 (1877). 



T. fidvipedl vicinus, antennis paulo crassioribus, articulo 11.° 

 apice tantum rufulo, capite majore, nigro, alutaceo, vix perspicue 

 crebre punctulato, thorace breviore et latiore, subopaco, multo 

 magis alutaceo, creberrime subtilissime punctulato, antice magis 

 truncato, angulis anticis magis rotundatis, posticis fere rectis, 

 retrorsum non prominulis ; basi utrinque dilutiore, lateribus a basi 

 ad apicem magis arcuatim angustatis ; fossula supra scutellum 

 parum profunda, latiuscula ; scutello majore ; (elytra desunt) (1) ; 

 abdomine latiore et robustiore, minus nitido, magis conico, dimidio 

 crebrius fortiusque punctato, segmento 5.° apice vix rufescente, 

 6.° 7.° que totis run's, subtusdilutius; segmentis3-4 punctis'2 tantum 

 utrinque distantibus, 5.° punctis 4 fortioribus, aeque distantibus, 

 in margine, 6.° punctis 4 aliis, magis elongatis, a margine 

 paulo remotioribus notato ; pedibus piceis, femoribus anticis, 

 genubus, tarsisque rufis ; £ segmento 7.° supra quadrifido, laciniis 

 externis brevioribus, obtusis, intermediis ante apicem angustatis, 

 acuminatis ; subtus segmento 6.° medio apice vix rufo ciliato, 7.° 

 latius quadrifido, laciniis intermediis longioribus, non acutis, intus 

 sinuato-impressis, externis non acutioribus. Long. 7 mm, (Fvl.) 



9 latet. 



North Australia ; Cook's River, New South Wales ; Tasmania. 



(1) From an examination of specimens obtained subsequent to the publica- 

 tion of this description Fauvel states {l. c. XIII., p. 563) that the elytra are 

 black, slightly convex, transverse, and a little longer than the prothorax. 

 They are finely and densely punctured, and are furnished with six or seven 

 very obsolete striee on the disc ; the sides are finely margined. 



