Notes on Amycteridcs. 241. 



tive ami appears to l>e constant. The contrast between the rather 

 nitid F. Masters/, with hardly a vestige of clothing, and this dull, 

 densely clothed species is too great to allow me considering them as 

 otherwise than specifically distinct. 



The type ^ is from Richmond Downs, Queensland, and is in the 

 collection of the Queensland Museum; the type $ in my own col- 

 lection, and a second $ in the National Museum, Melbourne, came 

 from Mr. ('. French, and are labelled Queensland, without a definite 

 locality. 



PSALIDURA LKAI, n. Sp. 



^Elongate, subparallel. Black, legs diluted with reddish; 

 clothing absent; setae black, decumbent. 



Head strongly convex, partially concealed by prothorax, mode- 

 rately closely setigero-punctate. Rostrum vei'y short, wide; internal 

 ridges prominent, somewhat convergent, separated at base by a 

 distinct median notch; median area strongly depres.sed in front; 

 sublateral and basal sulci continuous, rather deeply impressed. 

 Submentum with median tooth, forwardly directed. Prothorax 

 (6x6 mm.) evenly rounded on sides, median lobe produced over 

 head to some extent ; subapical construction faint but traceable -^ 

 disc somewhat flattened, with median line feebly impressed; closely 

 set with small, rounded, contiguous, setigerous granules, these some- 

 what smaller towards centre. Elytra (13 x 8 mm.) evenly rounded 

 from behind base to apex, apex abruptly rounded, mucronate at 

 suture; humeral angles thickened, out-turned. Disc foveo-striate ; 

 striae moderately deep; foveae small, punctiform, slightly trans- 

 verse, and ill-defined, ridges between foveae little raised, each with 

 a fine setigerous granule; interstices moderately prominent, the 

 third and fifth slightly more so, set Avith small depressed umbilicate 

 setigerous granules, in double, frequently in triple, series, on the 

 fourth and sixth in single series, duplicated in the middle. Meta- 

 sternum transversely concave, more deeply depressed in middle 

 along intercoxal process; at sides on a level with middle coxae. 

 Fifth segment strongly excavate, anterior wall of excavation almost 

 vertical; excavation reaching to anterior margin of segment in the 

 middle; preanal fossa deeply set, slightly transverse. Fascicles 

 moderately large, separated about 1.5 mm. Forceps longer than 

 in P. citltrata, projecting beyond apex of elytra when not ex- 

 tended, broad at base, gradually narrowing beyond insertion of 

 laminae; apex somewhat obtusely pointed; with a ridge or setose 

 hair down centre of inner surface. Laminae inserted behind setose 



