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Stomafoceras, Kirby, is another widespread genus 

 occurring in Africa, Japan, and America, and now recorded 

 from Australia. 



No. 8. The single specimen of this Clialcidid is too 

 fragile to remove from the card for examination. It 

 probably belongs to the genus Halticella. 



No. 9. Rhipipallus affinis, form. nov. / 



^ . Head lenticular ; clypeus triangular deeply incised anteriorly, 

 front below the antennje sliglitly raised, smooth and shining, cheeks 

 face and vertex finely but somewhat obsoletely longitudinally striate ; 

 scape of antenna3 short smooth and shining, flagellum finely 

 granulose, pilose, the hairs very short, the liasal two joints simple, 

 the rest except the apical joint with long slightly clavate rami on 

 each side, two to each joint, apex distinctly incrassate. Thorax 

 densely and somewhat coarsely punctured ; scutellum conical pro- 

 duced, the apex terminating in two short teeth ; at base a tranverse 

 series of fovese or large shallow punctures ; postscutellum and 

 median segment very coarsely cribrate, the latter with two or three 

 irregular more or less vertical carince ; wings hyaline and iridescent ; 

 legs slender. Abdomen smooth and shining, its petiole opaque 

 granulose. Mandibles tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish-brown ; coxfe 

 and femora dark blue or black ; antennse dark reddisli-brown ; head, 

 thorax anteriorly, scutellum and median segment, metallic-green 

 with in certain lights a bronze tint ; middle of thorax above entirely 

 coppery-bronze ; petiole and abdomen dark metallic-blue. 



9 . differs from the ^ as follows : Clypeus not incised ; antennte 

 moniliform, the joints simple not provided with lateral rami ; 

 scutellum not bidentate at apex, at base a deep, broad transverse 

 sulcation within wliicli is situated the transverse series of foveai so 

 conspicuous in the (^ ; petiole of abdomen much shorter, abdomen 

 as in the $ . Antennte paler, head and thorax more bronze than 

 green ; abdomen a darker blue. 



Length (? 5 ; $ 4 mm. Exp. (^ $ 9 mm. 



$ $ types in the Hope Department, ^ ^ co-types in 

 British Museum of Natural History. 



Hah. N. Queensland, Townsville {F. P. I)odd). 



Superficially this form closely resembles the type of 

 the genus {B. vol/usics, Walker), but besides other points 

 of difference it is easily separable by the sculpture of the 



trans, ent. soc. lond. 190G. — part i. (may) 9 



