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and are xisually riifo-castaneoii.s. Wings absent. Abdominal tergites with their 

 posterior angles backwardly jiroduccd, lateral margins, which are slightly 

 thickened and paler, entire. Posterior margin of the 7th abdominal tergite sinuate. 

 Supra-anal lamina of ^ (Text-tig. 6) quachate, angles obtuse, lateral margins everted, 

 finely punctate, posterior margin ciliate, with a wide, shallow, angular emargination. 

 Cerci extending considerably beyond the lamina in both sexes, tips fuscous. Supra- 

 anal lamina of $ (Text -tig. 8) triangular, ajjex truncate, concavely emarginate, not 

 densely ciliate, and with each external angle terminating in a definite spine, lateral 

 margins ciUate. Subgenital lamina of ^ (Text-fig. 7) subquadrate, posterior margin 

 convex, with a stout spine at the base of the styles. Styles inserted on the po.sterior 

 border within the angles, acuminate, slightly incurved. When viewed dorsally the 

 styles partly conceal the laminal spines, thereby assuming a broad-based appearance. 

 The two lamina? are of about equal length. Coxae bordered with yellowish on the 

 upper surface (next the sternites) and are, with the femora, dark castaneous. 

 Trochanters and tibiae considerably lighter in colour, the tibiae usually rufo-castaneous. 

 Posterior metatarsus long, biseriately spined beneath, its pulvillus apical, remaining 

 joints unspined, their pulvilli occupying their whole length. The two proximal joints 

 of the tarsi are very dark castaneous ; and the three distal joints mui'h paler. 

 Arolia present. 



Text-fig. C, — Cutilia nititlelln. 

 Supra-anal lamina of o. niuch enlarged. 

 (Drawn from Spm. No. 24, Coll. Auct.) 



Test -fig. 7. — Cutilia nitidella. 

 Subgenital lamina of S, much enlarged. 

 (Drawn from cotype, Spm. No. 12, foil. Auct. 



Text-6g. 8.— Supra-anal lamina of ?, much cnlarKml. (Drawn from Spm. No. 2.'), Coll. Auct.) 



Length.—^ 15-10 mm. ; $ 17-lH mm. Pronotum 5-5 X !) mm. 



Cotypes.—2 ^ and 2 ?, Coll. Auct. (Spms. Nos. 1 1 and 12 ,^ ; Nos. 13 and 14 $.) 



//a/.<i7ar~Queen.sland : Brisbane, Wynnum, Capalaba. Ormiston, Wellington 



Point, Tingalpa, Cleveland, Laldley (Auct.). Sunnybaiik (II. Tryon), Brisbane 



(Q. .Mus. : H. Hii.k.T), (J. C liridwe'li). 



