■220 AUSTRALIAN PBELAPHIDM, 



num iuserto, basi pyriformi et processu apice penicillato, longis- 

 simo, prsedito, 4 in secundum flexo, transverso, apice valde subulate- 

 •et acuminato, infra medio angulato et processu longo penicillato 

 prsedito. Prothorax ovatus. Abdomen late marginatum, seg- 

 mento 1° dorsali caeteris multo majori, ventralibus 7 $ 6 (j) 

 instructnm, 2 ventrali ceteris parum majori (g sexto apice pro- 

 funde angulato-emarginato et 7° minuto, rhomboidali). Coxae 

 posticae valde distantes. Prosterni lateribus infra (episternis) 

 anterius productis. Trochanteribns anticis et posticis parum 

 elongatis, intermediis elongatis, tarsis gracilibus, elongatis; ungui- 

 bus binis mediocris, aequalibus. 



This new genus resembles Didi»wprora, but is very different; 

 the construction of the maxillary palpi is most extraordinary, and 

 bears some analogy to the same organ in another Australian 

 insect, Schistodactylus phantasma, Raffr., which in every other 

 respect is exceedingly distinct. 



Leanymus palpalis, n.sp. 

 (Plate x., figs. 5-6.) 



Tot us ferrugineus, antennis ad apicem nigrescentibus, palpis 

 testaceis, nitidus, parce nigro-pubescens. Caput latitudine sua 

 longius, deplanatum, fronte medio impresso et utrinque supra 

 antennarum insertionem obtuse tuberculato, inter oculos magnos 

 foveis duabus. Antennae elongatae, graciles, articulis 1° sat 

 elongato, cylindrico, 2 oblongo, 3-6 elongatis, 7 paulo breviori, 9 

 majori obconico, 10 transverso, 11 ovato. Prothorax ovatus, 

 convexus, absque sulcis et foveis. Elytra convexa, latitudine 

 sua longiora, ad basin attenuata, basi bifoveata, stria sutnrali 

 integra, sulco dorsali profundo, medio terminato. Abdomen 

 elytris longius, subconvexum, segmento 1 Q basali, basi transversim 

 impresso. Pedes elongati. 



^. Antennarum articulis 10 intus apice leviter producto, 11 

 basi intus tuberculato; ely trorum humeris magis notatis, prosterni 

 episternis longe spinosis et apice ciliatis; metasternum concavum, 



