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1. — Loboglossa australica, n. sp. 



Elongate, slightly widened posteriorly, shining ; obscure ferruginous, the 

 eyes and tips of the mandibles black, the antennae and tarsi ruf o-testaceous ; 

 above and beneath densely, finely, confusedly punctate, clothed with rather 

 long, adpressed, flavo-cinereous pubescence, that on the elytra condensed into 

 patches, giving a mottled ajjpearance to their surface. Eyes large, convex, 

 coarsely facetted. Antennae sub-seri-ate, very short, not reaching the base of 

 the prothorax, joint 3 mucli longer than 4, 4-10 gnxdually becoming shorter and 

 broader, 6-10 tiuangular, 9 and 10 transverse, 11 short-ovate. Prothorax much 

 wider than the head, transverse, rather convex, rounded at the sides anteriorly 

 and also a little narrowed behind, the base bisinuate, the hind angles rectangular ; 

 the disc with six large, shallow, foveiform depressions — two along the median 

 line (one of these basal), an oblique one on each side of them, and one at the 

 base towards the hind angles. Scutellum rather large. Elytra long, a little 

 broader than the prothorax, slightly wider at the middle than at the base, 

 shallowly longitudinally grooved, the disc also transversely depressed anteriorly. 

 Length 81, breadth 3 mm. ( ? ?) 



Hah.: Australia, Moreton Bay (Biggies). 



One specimen, acquired by the Museum in 1857. Differs from 

 the Chilean L. variipennis (unicolorous form*) in its very short, sub- 

 serrate antennae, larger eyes, broader prothorax, with an additional 

 large fovea on the middle of the disc (as in Thisias sexfoveatus) and 

 the base rather strongly bisinuate, and the coarser somewhat granulate 

 sculpture. The prothorax in the Australian insect has an indication of 

 a raised marginal line, but it could not be termed a carina, there being 

 no trace of this in L. variipennis. 



Thisias Champ. 



1. — Thisias sexfoveatus, n. sp. 



Oblong-ovate, moderately shining; nigro-piceous or piceous, mottled or 

 variegated with ferruginous above, the antennae and tarsi in part, the knees, 

 and apices of the tibiae also ferruginous ; densely, finely punctate, and very 

 finely pubescent, the pubescence on the light-coloured portions of the upper 

 surface ochraceous, forming irregular scattered spots on the elytra. Eyes 

 moderately large. Antennae short, joint 3 longer than 2 or 4, the latter sub- 

 equal in length, 5-10 triangular, 6-10 transverse. Prothorax transversely 

 sub-quadrate, sub-angularly dilated at the sides before the middle, and sinuously, 

 obliquely narrowed thence to the apex, the hind angles rectangular ; the disc 

 with six deep impressions — two along the median line (forming an interrupted 

 median sulcus, the anterior one elongate, the other basal, large, triangular), one 

 large, oblique, at about the middle on each side of these, and two at the base, 

 the three basal impressions connected by a narrow transverse sulcus within the 



* Salpangida brunnca Germain, in litt. 



