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AUSTRALIAN PSELAPHID.E. 

 By A. Raffray. 



(Communicated by Arthur M. Lea.) 



(Plate x.) 



A good many Australian species of Pxelaphidai have already 

 been published by different authors, principally the following: — 



Westwood, J. O., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1856 and 1870. 



King, Rev. R. L, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. 1862, 1863, 1865, 

 1873. 



Schaufuss, Dr. D., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., reprinted in Nunq. 

 Otios.; Tijds. voor Ent. 1886 and 1887. 



Macleay, William, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. 1871, 1873. 



Sharp, Dr. D., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1874; Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 1892. 



Raffray, A., Revue d'Ent. 1883, 1887, 1890, 1898. 



Blackburn, Rev. T., Trans. R. Soc. South Aust. 1889, 1891. 



The species mentioned in these different works amount to about 

 200 species, which is already a fair number, but certainly is only 

 a small part of the Pselaphidcn existing on the Australian continent. 



Mr. Arthur M. Lea kindly sent me a large collection of 

 Pselaphidce, which, together with those hitherto undescribed 

 which my collection contains, enables me to add 73 new species. 



The production of a complete Catalogue of known Australian 

 Pselaphidce would prove a useful and interesting work, but as I 

 have not seen the types of the Rev. R. L. King, such a work is 

 practically impossible, and I am thus compelled to narrow the 

 scope of this paper and to restrict it to descriptions of new species, 

 with remarks on such little known and doubtful species, the 

 authenticated types of which are in my possession. 



