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



The specimens were collected by Mr. J. J. East, after whom the 

 species has been named, while accompanying Mr. Tietkens in 

 1888 in his exploring tour. 



Anamesia Lindsayi, s])ec. nov. 



Reddish-brown. Head brown ; ocelliform spots, upper and 

 lower margin of labrum, cheeks, and palpi pale ferruginous, 

 antennse dusky ferruginous. Pronotum almost smooth, shining, 

 with small, distant punctures ; fore and lateral margins very 

 narrowly yellow, hindmargin only yellow in the middle ; disk 

 with large rather irregular corrugations, the most notable being a 

 transverse ridge posteriorly, and followed by a deep depression 

 extending into the mesonotum. Meso- and meta-notum similar, 

 hindmargins broadly dark, slightly bordered behind with yellow. 

 Abdominal segments shining, hindmargins of segments, one to 

 five, broadly dark, with a row of small impressed dots ; segments 

 six and seven concolorous, rather rough, angles subrotundate, not 

 produced. Supra-anal lamina of male flat, quadrilateral, sub- 

 rectangular, much shorter than wide, hindmargin slightly con- 

 vex, sides and base blackish, a lenticular space in disk 

 ferruginous ; of the female subquadrangular, arched, dark brown, 

 concolorous, indistinctly serrate. * Legs wholly yellowish ochreous, 

 spines alone dark. Abdomen ventrally dark reddish brown, 

 concolorous. Subgenital lamina of male transverse, hindmargin 

 straight, scarcely emarginate ; styles slender, exceeding the 

 lamina, red, apex acute, black. Cerci pale reddish, carinate. 



Length of body 

 Length of pronotum 

 Width of pronotum 

 Width of abdomen 



Habitat. — Fraser Range, South-western Australia. S.A. 

 Museum. 



This species is named after Mr. W. Lindsay, the leader of the 

 late Elder Exploring Exjoedition, and svas collected by Mr. R. 

 Helms in May, 1892, who mentions in a note attached that 

 the natives call it " Kumbumberi." The insects, one male and 

 female, resemble A. Lcnnbii, but are much smaller, less rugose, 

 and differently marked. 



