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AxAMESiA Lambii, spec. nov. 



Reddish-brown, dorsal surface rough with large, shallow im 

 pressed dots, shining. Head brown, ocelliform spots small, indis- 

 tinct, transversely oval ; angles of clypeus pale-brownish, 

 antennae ferruginous. Pronotuni with irregular, broad, low 

 corrugations ; hind angles rounded, distinctly elongated. Ab- 

 dominal segments with coarse impressed dots ; angles subacute, 

 not produced ; hindmargins of first to fifth segments more or less 

 yellow, of sixth and seventh segment entirely so, eighth with 

 rotundately-produced lobes. Underside and legs reddish to 

 piceous-brow^n, concolorous. Supra-anal lamina of female sub- 

 truncate, margins rounded, serrate ; hindmargin yellowish. 

 Cerci with parallel sides, shortly and acutely acuminate, pale- 

 brown. 



vSeven Females. 



Length of body 29-33 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... ... 7-9 " 



Width of pronotum... ... ... 14-16 " 



Width of abdomen 18-22 " 



Habitat. — Innaminka, Central Australia. S.A. Museum. 



The specimens were presented by Mr. W. Laml), who has at 

 various times enriched the Museum collection with numerous 

 objects of interest procured in a locality which is almost inacces- 

 sible for collectors in general, and in grateful acknowledgment 

 the species is named after the donor. 



Anamesia Eastii, spec. nov. 



Ochraceous ; dorsal surface with large, shallow, rather distant 

 impressed dots, which are dark-brown ; shining. Head black 

 above ; face variegated paler, a pale ochreous band betw^een the 

 eyes and the sides of the face ; antenna? reddish, base blackish. 

 Pronotum pale, with very few dark dots ; lateral margin broad, 

 slightly incurved ; disk with indistinct elevations and depressions ; 

 hindmargin much less flexuose than that of the meso- and 

 meta-notum, both of the latter black at the base in the middle. 

 Abdominal segments narrowly black at the base, dusky along the 

 hindmargin, more or less yellow in the middle, with numerous 

 red or dark round dots scarcely impressed ; angles not rounded, 

 those of segments six and seven slightly and acutely produced. 

 Supra-anal lamina of male quadrangular, angles acute, hind- 

 margin broadly emarginate ; of female broad, rounded, slightly 

 truncate, and serrate. Cerci slender, scarcely exceeding the 

 lamina, yellow. Subgenital lamina of male quadrate, deeply 

 emarginate, styles long, slender. Underside ferruginous ; coxse 

 pale, striped, with dark red, femora and tibia? dark jDurplish. 



