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in the middle as long as the two preceding segments together, its 

 basal margin obtusely subangular in the middle, male genital 

 segment constructed much as in P. ellipticus, but with the lateral 

 margins of the sinuosity more distinctly rounded. Length, $ 13 

 mm., $ 14.5 mm. 



Queensland; West Australia. 



A very distinctive species, readily recognised by the structure of 

 the head, etc. In the shape of the body it is somewhat similar to 

 P. edtvardsti, V. Duz., but is still broader and laterally more 

 rounded. 



Judging from the various localities it is distributed throughout 

 Northern Australia. 



Paramenestheus abditus, n. sp. 



Oblong-oval, drab-coloured, above rather thickly punctured with 

 dark fuscous, exocorium appearing lighter owing to its finer and 

 paler puncturing, inner margin of juga, a vitta on clypeus con- 

 tinued to base of head, two broader short basal vittae to head 

 between ocelli and eyes, the pronotal cicatrical areas, a subquadrate 

 callus near basal angles of scutellum on the inner side of the 

 black foveae, a median vitta in basal half of scutellum, two 

 parallel vittae in its apical half not reaching apex and continued 

 divergently from middle of scutellum toward its base, the lateral 

 margins of its postfrenal part the veins of corium and clavus, and 

 a vitta in apical half of mesocorium not far from the radial vein 

 impunctate and generally paler, the postfi-enal lateral margins of 

 the scutellum and the radial vein much paler, whitish, a spot at 

 inner end of pronotal cicatrical areas and at apex of scutellum, 

 and a vitta on the mesocorium close to the postero-median part of 

 the radial vein composed of sulxionfluent blackish points, membrane 

 greyish, the veins scarcely darker, spiracles and extreme basal 

 angles of the ventral segments fuscous, head beneath punctured the 

 same as above, pleurae with two percurrent vittae composed of 

 aggregated blackish points and separated by a rather broad very 

 remotely punctate band, the exterior vitta with closer and darker 

 punctures, and bordered on its outer side with an irregular inter- 

 rupted impunctate vitta, lateral border of propleurae subbiseriately 

 punctate, venter mostly impunctate, but on each side with a black- 

 punctured posteriorly evanescent vitta forming a continuation of 

 the inner pleural vitta, and with a faint trace of a similar aub- 

 lateral vitta. sixth ventral segment punctured with fuscous in its 



