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produced backAvard, ventral furroAv very distinct, reaching apex of 

 fifth segment, but much shallower in fourth and fifth segments. 

 Length, 5 18.5 mm. 



Alice Springs. 



In this very distinct species the apical angles of the sixth abdomi- 

 nal segment are shortly spinously produced as in the genus Eumr- 

 €opus, but on account of the short head and the only subacutely 

 prominent, not spinous, humeral angles it must be referred to 

 Foecilometis, with which it also agrees in its general aspect. 



] ] . Ckphaloplatus nubifek, n. sp. 

 Oval, somewhat convex, about one-half longer than its greatest 

 width, testaceous, paler beneath, a narrow impression at basal 

 ■angles of scutellum and a spot at basal angles of connexival and 

 ventral segments black, niiddle of sterna, a curved vitta to pleurae, 

 spiracles, ventral sutures in the middle, and last rostral joint 

 piceous, in specimens Avitli Avell pronounced colouring a waved 

 fuscous transverse line between pronotal humeral angles; membrane 

 ■dull greyish with fuscous veins and spots; moderately thickly Ijut 

 somewhat irregularly punctured with fuscous, the laminately ex- 

 panded lateral borders of the prothorax more remotely and coarsely 

 punctate, connexivum very remotely punctured, a spot Ijehind 

 middle of corium, a rather narroAv median vitta to venter, and 

 ventral lateral borders impunctate, pronotum, scutellum, and 

 ■corium Avith clusters of thick-set punctures, four of these clusters 

 placed in a transverse row before middle of pronotum, four at 

 basal margin of scutellum, one at scutellar lateral margins before 

 their middle, and three in the corium placed successively, the hind- 

 most at the apical margin ; almost the whole front femora, apical 

 part of middle and hind femora, and upper side of all tibiae 

 jsprinkled with round fuscous spots. Head as broad as long, a little 

 incised at apex, lateral margins in front of eyes Avith an angular 

 prominence directed outAvards, then rounded, juga contiguous in 

 front of clypeus, rather narroAvly rounded at apex, second antennal 

 joint a little passing apex of head, Avith an obscure dark annulation 

 before the tip (last three-joints Avanting). Pronotum in the middle 

 as long as head, apical angles subacutely produced forAvards, reach- 

 ing (in the normal position of the head) a little beyond anterior 

 ;margin of eyes, lateral margins scarcely or very minutely crenu- 

 lated, slightly sinuate behind middle and Avith a small indentation 

 immediately behind apical angle, lateral angles obtuse, a little 

 prominent. Scutellum someAvhat granulated (more distinctly so 



