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behind the middle and limited in the middle part of its hind 
margin by a sharply defined transverse carina; tarsi long and 
slender. From certain points of view the elytra appear to be 
feebly striate and the seriate arrangement of their tubercles is 
very irregular. 
Centr al Australia ; Oodnadatta. 
LONGICORNES. 
PARANDRA. 
LP. Frenchi, sp. nov. Nigro-picea, corpore subtus pedibusque 
plus minusve rufescentibus ; nitida ; capite sat crebre minus 
fortiter punctulato, inter oculos sat fortiter bituberculato ; 
prothorace quam longiori dimidia parte latiori, obsolete sub- 
canaliculato, fere ut caput sed paullo minus crebre punctu- 
lato, basin versus sat fortiter angustato, lateribus pone 
medium subangulatis (hine ad basin sinuatim convergenti- 
bus), margine antico sinuato, angulis omnibas obtusis bene 
determinatis (anticis dntrorsum, posticis extrorsum, promi- 
nulis), basi leviter sinuato-emarginata ; elytris quam _pro- 
thorax parum latioribus, punctulatis (ad basin ut prothorax, 
retrorsum gradatim magis crebre magis subtiliter); segmento 
ventrali apicali transverso, granulato (a basi retrorsum 
gradatim magis fortiter magis crebre), postice late rotundato. 
Long., 94.1.; lat., 32 1 
I cannot identify this insect with any Parandra yet de- 
scribed. For the sake of precision it will be well to compare it 
with a previously-named species. Placed beside P. pwncticeps, 
Shp., it is seen to be a narrower, more parallel, and more convex 
insect with the puncturation of its head a little finer but not 
much different, and that of its prothorax and elytra like that of 
its head (and therefore very different from the same in puncticeps) 
except that on the prothorax the punctures are a trifle less close 
and on the elytra they become gradually smaller and closer from 
the base hindward so that towards the apex of the elytra they 
differ considerably from those on the head. In P. Frenchi the 
sides of the prothorax are much more narrowed (and that more 
sinuately) behind their quasi-angulation than in puncticeps and 
the lateral margins are wider and better defined while the front 
angles are decidedly prominent. The large obtuse tubercles 
between the eyes are wanting in P. puncticeps, and the mandi- 
bles are very different in the two insects. I am doubtful of the 
sex of the type of P. Frenchi, but I believe it is a female. Its 
mandibles are much like those of the Lucanid Lissotus 
subtuberculatus, Westw., as figured Tr. Ent. Soc., 1885, t. 12, 
fig. 2. 
NS. Wales ; in the collection of Mr. French. 
