250 Transactions of the Society. 



39. Tegeocranus elongatus. Mihi, PI. X. Fig. 7. 



Average length about • 68 mm. 



„ breadth „ • 32 „ at broadest part of abdomen. 

 „ „ '2 „ where abdomen joins cephalo- 



thorax. 

 New Species. 



Colour black ; whole creature from point of rostrum to anus a 

 very long piriform shape, broadest near posterior end, which is 

 rounded, the line of the cephalothorax running continuously with 

 the abdomen in shape, but the wings of the cephalothorax standing 

 beyond the line. 



Cephalothorax long, a third of the length of the whole 

 creature, conical, nearly flat, sides raised into projecting wings, 

 almost horizontal. Anterior surface of the vertex covered with 

 slightly raised irregular ridges. Stigmata at the extreme edge and 

 posterior limit of cephalothorax. Stigmatic hairs short, slightly 

 curved back, gradually thickened towards the end, which is rather 

 bilobed. Hairs of the vertex very long, almost reaching the point 

 of the rostrum ; a hair from beyond the middle of each wing-like 

 ridge curved over the rostrum, the two crossing ; two shorter hairs 

 near point of rostrum curving downwards. Last two joints of the 

 legs slighter than usual in the genus. Abdomen coarsely reticulated, 

 nearly straight anteriorly, with two small, projecting, blunt points; 

 border of abdomen narrow and with rough edge, four lines of long 

 hairs down its dorsal surface, and a line of strongly recurved 

 shorter ones round the edge. On the ventral surface, below the 

 wing-like edges, is seen, on each side, a shorter similar ridge, reti- 

 culated, and armed with three curved teeth on the anterior edge. 

 Genital plates much rounded. 



This creature is exceptional amongst the Tegeocrani from its 

 lengthened form, otherwise it presents all characteristics of the 

 genus. 



I beheve it to be unrecorded, and propose to call it Tegeocranus 

 elongatus. 



It lives in dead wood and is very sluggish. 



GENUS HERMANNIA. 

 40. Heemannia piceus. Koch. 

 Nothrus inceiis. Koch, fasc. 29, pi. 2. 

 Hermannia crassipes. Nic. 469. 

 Murray. 

 (?) Hermannia reticulata. Thorell, loc. cit. Nymph. 

 Found everywhere. Common. 



Thorell's description of his reticulata, found at Bell Sound, 

 appears to correspond with the adult nymph of this species. 



