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G. add end us, sp. noV., Mas. Elongato-ovatus ; subnitidus ; 

 supra fere glaber, corpora subtus pedibusque pilosis ; 

 rufo-testaceus, elytris dilutioribus ; capite confertim sub- 

 tilius, pronoto sat crebre sat aequaliter subtiliter, elytris 

 subfortiter sat crebre, pygidio sparsim sat obsolete punc- 

 tulatis ; clyj^ao antice rotundato minus fortiter reflexo ; 

 prothorace postice marginato, antice angustato, sat trans- 

 verso, lateribus fortiter arcuatis, angulis anticis parum 

 productis subobtusis posticis rotundatis, basi utrinque 

 subsinuata ; elytris in disco sat (latera versus vix) mani- 

 feste striatis, striis geminatis : tarsorum posticorum ar- 

 ticulo basali quam 2"^ sat breviori. Long., 1}, 1. ; lat., 

 3fl. 



Australia ; exact locality doubtful, probably Western 

 Australia. 



Apart from colour, this species differs from G. lahialis, 

 Blackb., by, inter alia, the closer discal puncturation of its 

 pronotum, the blunter and less prominent front angles of 

 its prothorax, and the notably stronger and closer punctura- 

 tion of its elytra. The joints of the flabellum of its an- 

 tennae are not quite so long as the preceding joints of the 

 antennas together. The hind coxae are very evidently, but 

 not very much, shorter than the metasternum ; in G. lahialis 

 they are a little shorter than in this species. 



SCITALA. 



The positive identification of species described by the 

 older authors in this genus is practically impossible without 

 examination of types which are scattered through European 

 collections, and some of which have probably perished. There 

 is no other alternative than either to leave the genus as con- 

 stituting an insoluble enigma or to deal with it, using one's 

 best judgment in making probable identifications, and pro- 

 duce a monograph of its species, which is sure to contain 

 many errors, but which will at any rate, I hope, prove to 

 be intelligible and, therefore, capable of correction. At 

 present there la comparatively little which can be affirmed 

 either to be correct or to be incorrect, as a large number of 

 the descriptions of species are incapable of identification with 

 any insect in particular, and therefore I adopt the latter of 

 the expedients mentioned above. If I can, with the aid of 

 some knowledge of localities in which species occur, arrive 

 at the probability of the insects on which the descriptions 

 were founded and claim some at least of the old names for 

 species which my notes may render identifiable, it will be 

 possible for workers who may have access to such of the 

 widely-scattered types as still remain to confirm or correct 

 my identifications. 



