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prominent, with their outer margins longly pilose ; pronotum 

 darkly punctate, but without the two dark central fasciae. 



Long. 13 mm.; exp. pronot. angl. 6^ mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Mackay (R. E. Turner, Brit. Mus.). 



Theseus scutellatus , sp. n. 



Stramineous, more or less thickly blackly punctate ; head, 

 anterior area of pronotum, basal area of scutellum, apical 

 area of corium and connexivum ochraceous; body beneath 

 and legs ochraceous ; head beneath and a broad lateral fascia 

 to sternum thickly darkly punctate ; head with a sublateral 

 pale line parallel with the insertion of the antennae ; pro- 

 sternum with a black submarginal line, not reaching base; 

 abdomen with a distinct sublateral fascia on each side, pitchy 

 black ; antennae pale stramineous punctured, with black, the 

 third and fourth joints more darkly so, but with their bases 

 impunctate, first joint moderately curved, considerably 

 passing apex of head, second, third, and fourth joints almost 

 subequal in length (fifth joint mutilated in specimen de- 

 scribed) ; head as long as pronotum, the central lobe with 

 two black converging lines on its posterior half, inner ocular 

 and basal areas more or less impunctate ; pronotum with a 

 straight central longitudinal and a sublateral waved oblique 

 line on each side, pale levigate, the lateral margins a little 

 obscurely dentately sinuate behind eyes, posterior angles 

 subaugularly prominent; scutellum with the basal area a 

 little raised and centrally longitudinally foveately impressed, 

 posteriorly continued by two central raised levigate lines not 

 reaching apex ; corium with a maculate patch of black 

 punctures near its apical margin ; membrane hyaline with 

 iridescent reflections ; connexivum with a small black line 

 and spot margining the incisures ; rostrum reaching the apex 

 of the second abdominal segment, first joint not extending 

 behind the bucculae, second and third joints subequal in 

 length ; legs stramineous, more or less punctured with 

 piceous, anterior and intermediate tibiae almost impunctate 

 on basal areas, posterior legs mutilated in type. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Hab. Queensland; Townsville (Dodd, Brit. Mus.). 



A species to be recognized by the structure of the scutel- 

 lum, the sinuately subdentate anterior lateral margins of the 

 pronotum, the pale hyaline membrane, &c. This species 

 Avill doubtless by some systematists be considered entitled 

 to subgeneric rank. 



