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joint of its hind tarsi. I have before me a third species of this- 

 genus (also from W.A.) which is not however in fit state for 

 description. 

 W. Australia. 



DYSPHANOCHILA (gen. nov. Sericoidarum). 



Mentum antice leviter emarginatum ; palpi labiales modici, arti- 



culo ultimo subconico sat dilatato ; palpi maxillares elongati, 



articulo ultimo quam prsecedens multo longiori; labrum a 



clypei parte antica verticali nullo modo discretum ; oculi 



magni nitidi vix manifeste granulati, antice a cantho pro- 



funde incisi ; antennae (speciei typicae) Q-articulatse, clava 



3-articulata (hac maris quam articuli prsecedentes conjuncti 



multo longiori, feminse haud observatse) ; prothorax trans- 



versus ; elytra haud manifeste striata ; tibiae anticae extus 



2-dentatae, posticis elongatis minus robustis intus fere rectis ; 



unguiculi simplices ; sterna femoraque pilosa. 



This genus is easily distinguished by the total absence of any 



distinction between the labrum and the deep downward-vertical 



front face of the clypeus (which is even more complete than in 



the genus that I take to be Ocnodus), in combination with hind 



tibiae of the Sericesthis type. Its facies is something like that of 



Anodontonyx. 



D. pilosipennis, sp. nov. Sat brevis, sat lata ; modice nitida ; 

 supra pilis subtilibus elongatis erectis sparsius vestita, subtus 

 in sternis femoribusque pilosa ; brunneo-testacea ; clypeo 

 crebrius fortiter, capite postice sparsim sat grosse, prothorace 

 fere ut clypeus sed paullo minus crebre, elytris crebrius sat 

 fortiter, pygidio fortius minus crebre, pnnctulatis ; clypeo 

 antice rotundato-reflexo ; prothorace postice in medio haud 

 marginato, transverso, antice angustato, angulis anticis 

 minus acutis minus prominulis posticis acutis leviter retror- 

 sum prominulis, basi utrinque sinuata ; elytris haud distincte 

 striatis ; tarsorum posticorum articulo basali quam 2''^ paullo 

 breviori. Long., 4 J 1. ; lat., 2f 1. 

 An easily recognisable species on account of the long erect 

 hairs clothing the upper surface. Tn one example I can detect 

 no indication of elytral striae, in the other there are very faint 

 traces of striae arranged in pairs ; they are however scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable, but sufficient to show that the striation, such as it 

 is, is of the geminate type. 



W. Australia ; Swan R. Taken by Mr. E. F. W. Blackburn 

 and Mr. Lea. 



HAPLOPSIS. 



M. Lacordaire regards this genus as identical with Heteronyx. 

 His remarks seem to imply that he had seen at least one of its 



