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in front, margin incrassated, reflexed, disk with 

 trifoliate excavation and four tubercles in the angles ; of female 

 subemarginate, margin not incrassated, or reflexed, disk almost 

 flat, impression triangular, small. Supra-anal lamina with hind- 

 margin entire. Elytra and wings of male much abbreviated, 

 scarcely attaining the hindmargin of the metanotum, veins dis- 

 tinct ; of female lobiform, almost obsolete. 



Male. Female {Br. ) Male. Fm. [ynihi). 



Length of body ... 31mm. 28 mm. 29 mm. 28 mm. 

 Length of elytra ... ? ? 8 " 7 " 



Length of pronotum 7 " 6*2 " 6-5 " 6 " 



Width of pronotum 11 '' 9 " 11 " 9 " 



Hnhitat. — Sydney, New South AVales ; iVIoreton Bay, Queens- 

 land {Brunner) ; Ardrossan, Yorke's Pen., South Australia 

 {Cadd) ; Kewell, N. W. Victoria {Jas. Hill). 



I observed and collected this species already in 1898-80, usually 

 at the foot of perpendicular faces of cliffs along the seashore, but 

 beyond the direct action of the waves, either embedded in the 

 loose abraded detritus or concealed under clods of earth and in 

 fissures. The insects were, however, by no means abundant. 

 The female specimen from Kewell (200 miles inland) appears to 

 be a nymph, the elytra and wings being lobiform and not free, of 

 nearly equal length. The former extend barely to the hind- 

 margin of the metanotum, the latter to that of the second 

 abdominal segment, both with the veins quite distinct. 



Respecting the elytra and wings of the adults, Brunner 

 remarks that they were mutilated in his specimens, but of the 

 ordinary type. This appears not to be the case either in regard 

 to the mutilation or that they ever have perfect organs of flight. 

 The adult male specimen in the collection of the S.A. Museum 

 presents also a mutilated appearance, but when closely examined 

 with a strong lense it is seen that the edges of elytra and wings 

 are quite smooth, and rounded, notwithstanding their broken 

 appearance, and it is my opinion that this is their normal form. 



Panesthia cribrata, Saussure (Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1864, p. 31), 



Australia. 



Panesthia Kraussiana, Saussure (Mem. Soc. Phys. de Geneve, 



1873;. 

 Habitat. — Melbourne, Victoria. 



Panesthia laevicollis, Saussure (ibid). 

 Habitat. — Australia. 



