504 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 
aiitlce paiilo constricto, necnon ad latera in medio sub- 
sinuato ; elytris antice transversim subplicato-rugosis, pos- 
tice parce tuberculato-asperatis ; metasterno breviusciilo ; 
abdominis segm''^ 1'"" et 2'^° linea recta argiite divisis. 
Antennffi breves, subgraciles ; scapo brevi ; funiculi (minus 
compacti) art." 1"° magno, antice recte truncato ; capitido 
rotundato-ovali. Pedes subgraciles, anteriores contigui ; 
tarsis elongatis, gi'acilibus, art." 1"" elongato, 3"° vix latiore 
sed minutissime bilobo, ult.™" elongato. 
Hab. ins. S''^ Helena, Africam australem, et ins. Japo- 
nicas. — Stenoscelis. 
1. NoTiOMiMETES {nov. geji.). — If the minute insect 
(scarcely one line in length) from which the details for the 
present genus have been compiled, and which I have re- 
ceived from Mr. Pascoe as having been captured on the 
sea-shore at King George's Somid in the south of Aus- 
tralia, be (as I think, from the structiu-e of its abdomen, 
antenna?, and general facies, that it is) a veritable member 
of the Cossonidce, it appears to me to be absolutely neces- 
sary to erect a separate subfamily to receive it ; for 
although in its most significant character of a 4-jointed 
funiculus, as well as in its fusiform outline and obsolete 
scutelhmi, it agrees sufficiently with the Dryoplithorides, 
it is nevertheless so radically different from the exponents 
of that section in the fact of its tibife being free from a 
terminal hook, in its very widely separated coxje (which 
are more remote from each other than in any Cossonid 
which I have yet seen), and in its pseudotetramerous feet, 
that I do not believe it can possibly be associated with 
them. Indeed its apically-unarmed tibiae would, in my 
opinion, have almost sufficed to exclude it fi'om the Cosso- 
nidce altogether, was not that particular fcatiu-e one of the 
main characteristics of the subfamily OnT/cholijndes, vrhich 
I have regarded (and, I cannot but think, correctly so) 
as aberrant, fossorial Cossonids. Moreover its immersed 
head and obsolete eyes, as well as its bald and rather 
shining surface (which is entirely fr'ee fi'om mud-like 
scales), are characters which are quite unprecedented in 
any of the hitherto-known representatives of the Dryopli- 
thorides. 
In other respects (each of them of considerable im- 
portance), Notiomimetes recedes from the Dryophthorides 
