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RECORliS OK THK AUiS'l'RAIilAN MrSEUM. 



Fiilrp,<. — Stout, dark-bfowii ; ]uin'ecte(l : 

 sides liairv : u]i])e!' sui'tnce mul Hjiices 

 clothed witli l)iistles: a bidud, imked men 

 occurs between tlie l)iistiy upper angle 

 and llie side; inner nnirle of furrow ot 

 eacli falx armed witl: nine teeth; outer 

 ansrle free (fie. 51). mid fringed with long • 



I'ed hairs; fani;' li'iiu'. sliining. dark-bi-own 



(almost black) to nesir the tip; latter Scheme of ilentition. 

 portion reddish-brown. 



Mii.rilhf. — Yellowisli-broAvn. divei'gent. slightly arched, inner 

 angle fringed witli long I'ed hairs ; sui'face moderateh- haii'v ; 

 the base, which cnives round the side of the labium, has a 

 number of short tooth-like spines. 



Lahiinn. — Concolorous ; short, broader than long, arched, 

 surface sparingly hairy, apex slightly hollowed ; near the 

 latter there is a procurved row of four toothlike spines ; one 

 of the latter is wanting in the type, having apparently been 

 broken off. 



Sternum. — Concolorous also ; modex'ately arched, naiTowest 

 in front, and broadest in the vicinity of the fourth pair of coxfe; 

 immediately below the labium there is a strongly defined 

 transverse wavy groove ; distributed over the sui'face there are 

 a numbei- of black bristles; siijiJln marginal. 



AhiliDucn. — Obovate, slight ly overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, clothed with soft, downy yellow liairs. and having a few 

 black bristles in front ; upper surface and sides vellow. irregu- 

 lai'ly nM)ttled with black markings ami spots; underneath, 

 yellowish-brown, pubescent ; pulmonaiy sacs yellowish, pubes- 

 cent ; the chitinous plate in fidnt of the ri)iin ppitjK^tris con- 

 colorous, arched, ])ubesceni, witli a few scattered black bristles; 

 two sigilla are j)resent. 



Sj)i)nn'rrf.<. — Yellow, ])uliescent ; supei'ioi' mammilla^ tapei-ing, 

 ]-atlu^r nioi'e t lian one-third the length of cephalot horax, first 

 joint longest, the second shortest ; infei'ior mammilla' very 

 short and close together. 



Hub. — North Sydney. 



