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for true Dl.nppfis; and the fifth and sixth segments of the abdomen are somewhat 

 exi^anded. 



Dimensions. 



Long, corporis 140 millim. 



,, capitis 6 „ 



„ pronoti fi „ 



„ mcsonoti 32 „ 



„ metanoti, cum segmento mediano .... 20 ,, 



„ segmenti mecliani 8 „ 



femorum anticorum 33 



„ mcdianornm 22 



„ posticorum 27 



JIab. Thursday Island. 



The type is not in very good condition, but I think it well to describe it, as very few 

 PJiasmkhe are knoAvn from the New Guinea district. 



It has considerable resemblance to D. crawangensis, De Haan, from Java, but is much 

 stouter. 



Phasgania Everetti, n. g. et sp. (Plate XL. figs. 2, 2 a.) 



Female. Cylindrical, brown, granulated dorsally and laterally as far as the middle of 

 the mesothorax, with larger lateral tubercles on the sides of the mesothorax. Head 

 unarQied, rather long, rounded and depressed, about as long as the prothorax, the rest 

 of the body with a slight longitudinal carina, exce^jt towards the end of the mesothorax, 

 which is much dilated behind, and marked with several slight transverse carince, as is 

 also the median segment, and the extremities of the metatliorax and of most of the 

 abdominal segments. Prothorax scarcely thickened, and metatliorax not at all. Median 

 segment aljont one-fourth as long as the metatliorax. Abdomen with segments 3-6 

 much tiiickened, nodose, the 7th as long as the 6th, but only half as broad, even at the 

 extremity, which is broadest ; the 8tli narrower, and about two-thirds as long as the 7th ; 

 the 9th broader than long ; the lOtli narrower, slightly longer ttian the 9th ; and the 

 11th forming a spine, longer than the 9th and 10th together, and jirojccting far beyond 

 the ojierculum. Legs, especially the two front pairs, much comjiressed and carinated, 

 but the carinations are only slightly lobate towards the base of the middle tibiae beneath; 

 the first joint of the front tarsi, however, which is longer than the three following joints, 

 bears a foliaceous expansion, as in Dlxippus. The middle femora are armed at the 

 extremity beneath witii a closely approximating pair of two very strong teeth ; the 

 front and hind femora are only armed with one conspicuous tooth and some smaller 

 denticulations. 



