30 ENTOMOLOGISK TIDSKRIFT I913. 



IL Gryllodea. 



The collection contains about i6 new species and se- 

 veral new genera; only 8 new species and i new genus are 

 described here. 



Fam. Gryllotalpidae. 



Aiistrotalpa n. g. 



Allied to the genus Gryllotalpa but differing by following 

 characters. 



The body not finely hairy, but naked and brilliant. 

 Elytra in $ very long, covering very nearly the whole hind- 

 body, provided with very strong parallel nerves, in J* much 

 shorter. The endspurs of the hind tibitX regular and placed 

 in the same line. 



Austrotalpa pluvialis n. sp. 



The body broad, brilliant, only the hind-head finely 

 hairy; mouth-parts dark-brown, only the labrum reddish 

 yellow. Prothorax strongly brilliant, in the middle with a 

 lighter stripe, very finely punctured. Elytra in c^ very short, 

 with very strong nerves; vena mediastina with about ten 

 branches, the alae very much reduced in size; elytra in Ç 

 only near the base with some few triangular areas. The 

 hind body a little brilliant, but provided with very fine short 

 yellow hairs; the last ventral segment of peculiar shape, in 

 the middle impressed, the lateral margin of this impression 

 provided with long yellow hairs. Cerci of normal size, thick 

 and short, with fine and short, and also some longer hairs. 



Long. ^ 33 mm., $ 31 mm. 



I have captured only two specimens, i cT and i $ in 

 the rainforests on the top of Blackal Range, S. Queensland. 



No doubt the shortly described species, Gr. iiitidula 

 Serv., known only in the female sex, will also have to be 

 placed in this new genus. 



