AUSTRALIAN BI.ATTIVM.— ELAND SHAW. 165 



Length. — S 18 mm., $ 17-18 mm. 



Cotype.s.—2 ^ and 2 ? (C.,11. Auct., Ncis. 64 and 82 ^ ; Nos. 83 and 84 Q). 



Habitat. — Queensland : Laidley (Auct. 1915). Mount Gravatt near Brisbane 

 (H. Tryon). 



Notes. — In July, 1915, I todk 2 <^ and numeiuus $ and larval specimens at 

 Laidley from firewood obtained in the neighbourhood. More recently I found some 

 s))ccimens from Mount Gravatt near Brisbane, in the collection of Mr. H. Tryon, 

 Govt. Entomologist, one of which (cotype of ^, No. 64, Coll. Auct.) he kindly 

 gave me. The remaining cotypes are from Laidley. This is the only Australian 

 species whose ^ has de Sau.ssure's "depression en fossette" on the vertex, and the 

 foveola is relatively much laiger than in any of the other species possessing it, which 

 I have examined. 



PANESTHIA OBTUSA sp. no v. 



Nigro-castaneous, nitid. Head with the vertex and frons finely punctate ; 

 vertex of (J not foveolate ; ocelliform spots, margins of the clypeus, and of the labrum, 

 and distal segments of the antennae brownish yellow, also the tips of the palpi in (J. 

 Pronotum transverse, finely punctate, disc of .^ excavated in its anterior |, the excava- 

 tion ending posteriorly in thi'ee diverticula, the large median diverticulum having 

 a longitudinal carina, and being bounded by a blunt tubercle on each side ; 

 anterior margin roundly emarginate, a rounded tubercle on each side ; disc of ? similar, 

 but less jDronounced, excavation not extending so far backwards, with the anterior 

 jjortion of its floor tumefied, and the emargination of the anterior border obsolescent. 

 Mesonotum and metanotum with a few scattered punctures, the middle of the 

 posterior border of each obtusely backwardly produced. Tegmina and wings darkly 

 infumate, veins black : fully exphcate, or fractured in the usual line. Abdominal 

 tergites punctate, the 1st tergite with only a few scattered punctures, which become 

 more numerous, and coarser towards the distal tergites, until in the (J the 6th and 

 7th tergites are densely and coarsely punctate ; 7th tergite with the posterior margin 

 straight, the lateral margins deeply sinuate, backwardly produced into a bluntly 

 rounded process (Text-fig. No. 15). Supra-anal lamina of <S densely and coarsely 

 punctate, posterior margin gently arcuate, not crenulate, lateral processes bluntly 

 rounded ; cerci fulvous in the distal half. Abdominal sternites punctate, more 



Text-fig. 15. — Panesthia obtusa $. 

 Distal tergites X 6. (Drawn from Spm. No. 96, Coll. Auct.) 



