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tis, basi marginata utrinque leviter sinuata; scutello 



punctulato; elytris geraiiiato-striatis, sat fortiter sat 



crebre fere subrugulose, punctulatis ; py^ifidio confertim 



fortius subrugulose punctulato ; tibiis anticis extus tri- 



dentatis ; tarsis posticis sat elongatis, articulo basali 



quam 2""^ sat breviori ; coxis posticis quam metasternum 



cluplo brevioribus; segmento ventrali apicali postice mani- 



feste emarginato. Long., 4 1.; lat., 2 1. 



This species is an extremely isolated one in respect of 



several characters. Its short maxillary palpi (especially the 



short apical joint) are remarkable. Its antennae are quite 



unique in the genus (if not among all the Australian Sericoi- 



des), the second joint being (not a part of the scape, which 



consists only of the basal joint, but) evidently a part of the 



stipes, and not at all thicker than the 3rd joint. The 



general appearance is that of a very small specimen of A. 



nigrolineafa, Boisd. I believe the type to be a male. 



New South Wales : near the National Park. 



NOSPHISTHIS. 



I have not anything to be added to my remarks on this 

 genus in Tr. R. Soc, 1898, pp. 38, 39; but have recently re- 

 ceived a second sj^ecies of which the following is a description. 



N. Ferkinsi, sp. nov. Sat nitida ; testacea, supra magis ferru- 

 ginea; pilis elongatis fimbriata; corpore subtus pygidio- 

 que jDilosis ; capite confertim rugulo&e punctulato, clypeo 

 late truncato-rotundato antice fortiter reflexo ; paiporum 

 maxillarium articulo penultimo quam antepenultimus 

 sat multo breviori ; antennis 9-articulatis, flabello perbrevi 

 quadrato 3-articulato ; protnorace sat fortiter transverso, 

 minus convexo, antice fortiter angustato, perspicue cana- 

 liculato, quam caput multo sparsius punctulato, lateri- 

 bus arcuatis, angulis anticis vix acutis posticis obtusis, 

 basi utrinque leviter sinuata ; scutello punctulato ; elytris 

 aequaliter sat fortiter striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis 

 fortius vix crebre punctulatis; pygidio subnitido, con- 

 fertim subtiliter subaspere punctulato ; tarsis sat brevi- 

 bus, articulo apicali inter unguiculorum baseos lamina 

 utrinque instructo, posticorum articulo basali quam 2"s 

 sat breviori; coxis posticis brevibus. Long., 5i 1.; lat., 

 2i 1. 



Notably smaller and of narrower form than X. parvicor- 

 nis, Blackb. The type is much paler in colour. The pro- 

 thorax is much less convex transversely (i.e., much less decli- 

 vous on the sides). The elytra are more regularly striate (in 

 'parvicornis there is an evident want of evenness in the sub- 



