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£>. brevipennis^ sp. nov. Piceo-brunneus, elytris paullo dilutior- 

 ibus, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis ; sat dense fulvo-pubescens; 

 elytris quam prothorax minus quam duplo longioribus, nee 

 latioribus ; capite prothoraceque crebre subtiliter subaspere 

 punctulatis ; elytris manifeste striatis, interstitiis crebre fortiter 

 (fere crasse) subrugulose punctulatis ; antennarum articulis 1° 

 modico, 2° brevi 3" quam 2"* duplo longiori, 4° 2° sequali, 5" 2° 

 aequali, 6"-7° que parum longioribus fere transversis, 8*-10" quam 

 7"^ parum longioribus, 11" quam 10'"* duplo longiori. 



Long. 14 1. Lat. 4 1. 



DROM^OLUS. 



At the request of Mr. A. M. Lea, of Hobart, Tasmania, I take 

 this opportunity of drawing attention to the fact that two species 

 described by that gentlemen and referred to this genus (Proc. 

 L.S. N.S.W., 1891) ought to have been otherwise disposed, as 

 I have observed tliem to be members of the inter se very closely 

 allied genera Trigonopleiinis and Nematodes, as follows : — 

 D. nigricollis, Lea = Trigofwpleurus rugidosus, Bonv. 

 D. thoracicus, Lea = Nematodes thoracicus, Lea. 

 S. Australia (Basin of Lake Eyre). 



DiscAPTOTHORAX (geii. nov. Eucnemidarum.) 



Corpus sat cylindricum sat angustum; clypeus ad basin modice 

 angustatus antice fortiter sinuatus, carina interoculari baud 

 continua ; frons haud carinata ; mandibula sat rugulosa, postice 

 retrorsum sat fortiter producta ; antennse filiformes sat elongates 

 (abdominis basin fere attingentes), modice robust?e, articulo3" quam 

 4"' paullo longiori; pronotum leviter transversum ad basin profunde 

 bisinuatum, lateribus fere rectis prope marginem anticuni (hoc 

 quam basis parum angustiori) leviter dilatato-rotundatis, angulis 

 posticis vix acutis nullo modo divaricatis ; suturai prosternales 

 bene detinitfe, leviter arcuatfe ; sulci prostei'nales profundi lati 

 (margine externo in parte antica carinis 2 parallelis fere contiguis 

 instructo), quam trianguli propleuralis basis manifeste nee nmlto 

 angustiores, postice aperti, in capite angustati ; trianguli 

 propleuralis margo posticus quam ceteri (his inter se sat sequalibus) 

 circiter dimidia parte brevior ; metasternum abdomenque, sulcis 

 carentia ; coxarum posticarum lamina in parte basali lata (hac 



