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Records of the S A. Museum 



femora darker. Legs green, the base of femora darker green. Length of body, 

 41 mm., of pronotnm, 12 mm., expanse of elytra, 70 mm. 



Hab. Western Australia: Beverley (F. H. du Boiilay). Type, I. 14072, 

 unique. 



TRACHYMANTIS Giglio-Tos, 1916 (obesa). 

 TRACHYMANTIS OBESA Giglio-Tos. 



Trachymantis obesa Gigl.-Tos, Bull. Soe. Ent. Ttal., 1916, p. 46. 



Hab. Australia. ? 



This species is recorded : "da Hermann.sburg nell Africa centrale (Mus 

 Londra)." Hermannsburg is between Oodnadatta and Charlotte Waters, Central 

 Australia. 



DEIPHOBE Stal, 1877 (ocellata). 

 Hab. India and Australia. 



DEIPHOBE AUSTRALIANA Giglio-Tos. 



Deiphobe australiana Cigl.-Tos, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1915, p. 24. 

 Hab . Australia. 



THORODIA gen. nov. 



Male with head moderately large, about as high as wide, eyes rounded, pro- 

 minent ; vertex strongly arched ; facial shield transverse, elevated above ; clypeus 

 quadrilateral ; sides diverging, hind margin nearly straight ; ocelli large, closely 



grouped together. Pronotum about four 

 times long as wide ; widest at one-fourth, 

 margins anteriorly serrate, a moderate 

 median ridge. Wings long, nearly reach-. 

 ing tip of abdomen, hyaline, coloured. 

 Abdomen slender, parallel-sided, anal 

 appendages large; cerci stout, short, 

 cylindrical, with nine apparent joints, 

 apical joints compressed, clothed with 

 moderately dense setae. Anterior femora 

 moderate, with four discoidal spines, the 

 second very small, also an inner mar- 

 ginal row of fourteen nearly equal spines 

 ' and an isolated apical spine, outer 

 margin armed with five spines, the 

 second the largest, and the fiftli at apex; tibiae armed on inner margin with 

 thirteen graduated spines, the outer with seven or eight ; tarsi short, first joint as 



I'^ij^'. X)77. 'riiiirodia iiichinoiitcra sp. iiov 

 and T. m. major subsp. nov. 5 . 



