392 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
ACACICOLA, n.g. 
Antenne subfiliform, half the length of the body. Palpr 
clavate, apical joint wide and truncate. Basal joint of all 
the tarsi inflated, the second joint very small; claws dentate. 
Body shortly ovate, moderately convex. 
Abundantly distinct from any previously described genus. 
The shape is not unlike Platyparopsis (and possibly Micro- 
mela), which genus it is probably allied to, but at once dis- 
tinguished from by the dentate claws; the basal piece of 
each claw is large, but not very deeply divided. In Dr. 
Baly’s tabulation* it would fall beside Hulina and Australica 
(Calomela), but it is very different to those genera, or to any 
of the sub-genera partitioned off from the latter. 
ACACICOLA TRISTIS, n.Sp. 
Tesiaceous-brown, prothorax pale flavous; its base in 
middle infuscate; under-surface (middle of metasternum 
and of abdomen slightly infuscate); antenne (apical joints 
infuscate) and legs (claws infuscate) pale testaceous. 
Head flat, wide, punctures not very sparse or small; 
clypeus minute; antenne thin. second to tenth joints sub- 
equal in length, the third to eighth feebly mcereasing in 
width. the eleventh about once and one-half the length of 
the tenth. Prothorax with minute punctures in middle, 
larger and crowded at sides, base rounded, sides rounded ; 
anterior angles obtusely rounded, and extending to middle 
of eyes. Hlytra not much wider than and with an outline 
continuous with that of prothorax, with not very regular 
series of rather small punctures (larger at apex), becoming 
dense and irregular on sides; interstices impunctate, not 
separately convex; epipleure inwardly obliquely concave. 
Basal segment of abdomen shorter than metasternum, the 
three intermediate segments equal in size. Femora stout ; 
tibie compressed, apex oblique; basal joint of all the tarsi 
large and wide, narrowest in the posterior; second joint 
small, less than half the width of third, and not as long. 
Length 4, width 3mm. 
Hab.—N.8.W.: Forest Reefs. 
Another specimen differs in being entirely of a dingy 
sooty-brown, except for a very narrow testaceous border of 
the prothorax, the muzzle, basal joints of antennz, palpi, 
tarsi, and anterior tibiz. The species occurs on Acacta de- 
currens. 
* T.E.S., 1854, p. 170. 
