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Some time ajro^ I doubtfully ideiititied this species as regiiis. 

 It differs, however, from that species (of which I have recently 

 seen virtually a co-type) in being smaller, the head shorter and 

 the abdominal fovea very different. Seen from the sides the 

 antennae are feebly curved, narrow at the extreme base, but 

 elsewhere of even width, except that the apex is feebly dilated. 

 The median portion of the abdominal fovea is distinctly longer 

 than wide. There are numerous specimens before me, and all 

 the males, as in the males of rurvirornis, each have a seta pro- 

 jecting from the mouth. 



Clavigeropsis.^ 



This genus is recorded as monotypic in Raffray's recent 

 generic revision of the Pi^elaj^hidoe.^ It belongs to the Clavi- 

 gerides, and has the antennae six-jointed, but the basal joint 

 small and normally concealed, so that they appear to be but 

 five-jointed. The type of the genus (formirarius, Raffr.) 

 was from Abyssinia, and an excellent figure of it is given in 

 Revue d' Entomologie.^ I have now to record the genus from a 

 single specimen taken in an ants" nest in New South Wales. 



Clavigero/^sis australiae, n.sp. (Fig. 9.) 



Reddish-castaneons. With spars© golden setae on upper 

 surface ; but becoming dense at sides of base of abdomen ; 

 metasternum with fairly dense setae along middle. 



Head slightly longer than wide, densely punctate. Antennae 

 about as long as head, two basal joints short, the first quite con- 

 cealed from above, third subtriangular, fourth slightly wider and 

 shorter, fifth wider and slightly shorter than fourth, sixth truncate, 

 and slightly longer than fourth and fifth combined. Prothorax 

 about as long as wide, sides rounded near apex, thence almost 

 parallel to base, with a wide and rather shallow median fovea, 

 connected by a very indistinct median line with apex ; punc- 

 tures as on head. Elytra about as long as wide, shoulders 



1 Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1905, p. 376. 



2 Raffray, Rev. d' Ent., 1SS2, p. 3. y v v ,- — ^ — ~, 



3 In Wytsman's Genera Inset'toruni. t^j^rfi U» 



4 1890.pl. iii.,%. 28. /fe"A -^♦"^ ^-jvyj^ 



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