AiLstralian and Tihf<iii(iin<(ii ('uleo/>teiu. 45 



and club are different. 7'. breclcorins is without the golden basal 

 fascicles, and has much shorter antennae. It is ]ierhaps closest to 

 T. KiiKji of all the described species, but the elytra liave the .-ulcii.s 

 on each side much less pronounced, the front tiliiac different, and the 

 ventral impressions of diffeiciit shape and nuich shallower. 



From some directions the front til)iae appear to be scooped out in 

 the middle or bidentate. The eleventh joint of iintennae is obtusely 

 produced on one side, and its lower surface is <>:ently concave, the 

 tenth has a small tultercle on one side of its apex. 



Davetia. n.tr. 



Head transverse, bifoveate ; a wide thin fl;in<re margining each 

 eye. Eyes small, prominent, coarsely faceted. Antennae moderately 

 long, ten-jointed, first rather large, second smaller, the others to ninth 

 small and submoniliform, tenth large. Palpi large, first joint con- 

 cealed, second rather long and angular, third subtriangular. with 

 several projections at outer edge, each of which has a clubbed hair, 

 fourth much smaller than third and also with projections, its apex 

 with a thin spine or stout seta. VrDilninii feebly transverse, sides 

 angularly dilated in middle. Elytra short, dilated posteriorly. Ah- 

 dnmen about as long as prothorax and elytra conjoined, second, third 

 and fourth segments large, with wide margins. Mffasffrjiii/n 

 moderately long. Leg-'i rather long and unarmed : trochanters large ; 

 femora stout; tibiae rather thin, slightly dilated towards apex: 

 tarsi thin, first joint small, second and third rather long ; claws small 

 and thin. 



The species described below at first resembles a small flattened 

 Ctenisophus, but is readily distinguished from that genus, and from 

 all others, by its remarkable palpi and flanges. The latter are wide 

 and very thin, convex on the upper and concave on the lower surface ; 

 they are attached to the head partly directly, and partly to the 

 lower surface of the eyes, so that each appears as a remarkable 

 canthus. From above, the flanges appear to completely margin the 

 lower surface of the eyes ; their hind inner margin appears to be 

 fringed with fine setae. There is nothing nmch like them in any 

 described Australian genus except perhaps a vague remnant in some 

 species of Tmesiphorus. A distant approach, however, is made by a 

 foreign species, C'tenofillus co^tatu>( ; ^ which Raft'ray at the time of 

 description referred to the vicinity of TmesipliDrus, but later'- placed 

 closest (of the Australian genera) to Leani/nnix. The palpi" of 

 Daveyia, however, are very dift'erent to those of Ctenotilhix, and I 



1 Raffray, Ann. Soe. Eiit. Fr., Ixv., 1896, Plate II., Fig. 5. 



2 In his inoiioirraph in Wytsnian'a Genera Insectorum, p. ;i67. 



■i It is very liiffieult to manipulate tlie palpi, as rhey snap ofif almost at a teach. 



