Desniptiun of Australian Species of Georyssides and Parnides 

 hy the Rev, R. L. King, B.A. 



[Read 1st August, 1864.] 



The insects described in tbe present paper are possibly not 

 u.n common ; but on account of their small size, dull appearance, 

 and sluggish movements, they are not easily detected. They de- 

 rive their chief interest from the evidence which they afford that 

 the families to which they belong have their representatives in 

 the Australian Fauna. In these families, thoiTgh a considerable 

 number of individuals are generally found together, the number 

 of genera and of species is almost everywhere small. 



GEORYSSIDES. 



Geortssus Australis. 



Niger tubereulosus ; antennis 7-articulatis, articulo ultimo fusi- 

 formi ; thorace gibboso sj)h£erulato ; elytris porcatis. 



Long. 0-05 poll. PI. XIY. 



Paramatta ; under a stone near an occasional water-course. 



November, 1862. 

 Although this species evidently belongs to this family, it may 

 be questioned whether it ought not to be regarded as the type of 

 a new genus. I prefer, however, for the present, and until I have 

 an opportunity of examining more specimens, to leave it under 

 the old generic name. The antennae differ from those of pre- 

 viously known species, in having the last three joiuts of the 

 normal number consolidated into a single fusiform joint. In its 

 general shape it somewhat resembles Q. pygmceus, but it is smaller 

 than that species. The head is extremely depressed. The thorax 

 very tuberculose, two rows of tubercles make a median longitu- 

 dinal line between them ; towards the base are two almost hemis- 

 pherical protuberances covered with tubercles, and presenting a 



