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not seem quite at home in any described genus known to me. 

 The apportionment o£ species in genera is, however, so much 

 better done when species can be treated en masse that I prefer 

 avoiding the creation of new genera when possible in such a 

 memoir as this, and I think no great violence is required to 

 place the present insect in Clsseis provisionally. It must, 

 nevertheless, be noted that its tarsi and antennae are not those 

 of a typical Clsseis, the former being rather strongly com- 

 pressed, with the basal joint (on the posterior legs) not much 

 longer than the second, and the latter having the fourth joint 

 scarcely at all produce^ on the inner side, but almost identical 

 in shape with the third. In both these respects there is an 

 approach to Corcehus, but on the other hand the claws are those 

 of a Cisseis, and the inner lateral carina of the thorax is trace- 

 able nearly to the anterior margin ; the structure of the 

 antennae and of the scutellum (which is that of a Cisseis) for- 

 hids an association with Biscode^^es, and the structure of the 

 claws as well as the general facies are inconsistent with my 

 new genus Neospades. There are undoubtedly large numbers 

 of Australian Agrilidce allied to Cisseis still nndescribed, and 

 it is likely that as they are brought into notice our ideas of 

 the limits of some genera may be a good deal modified. In 

 some respects C constricta (described above) is intermediate 

 between the present species and a typical Cisseis. 



I possess a single specimen w^hich was sent to me by E, 

 Meyrick, Esq., from "Western Australia. 



AGEiLrs. 

 A. Aust7'alasice, L. and Gr., and Jiypohucus, L. and Gr. The 

 latter of these is quoted as above in Mr. Masters' catalogue, 

 but should be, I think, liypoleucus, Hope. The former is stated 

 by Germar to occur near Adelaide (the species he refers to is 

 by no means uncommon in S. Australia), while the latter, 

 under the names assimilis and purpuratus as well as liypoleucus 

 (names which Mr. Masters himself quotes as synonymic) is 

 attributed by the Eev. E. AY. Hope to Western Australia, and 

 also is said to have been taken by Mr. Eortnum, of Adelaide, at 

 *'Moriatta" — no doubt a mistake for "Morialta." Yet the 

 only locality mentioned by Mr. Masters in the case of each of 

 these insects is " New South Wales." Moreover there is great 

 doubt, I think, as to the real distinctness of Australasice and 

 liypoleucus. 



Cisseis ciqjreicollis, Hope, and ceneicollis, Hope (said to be a 

 variety of same) . These names are stated by their author to be 

 applied to insects sent to him from "Moriatta." The frequent 

 mention of this place by Mr. Hope as a hunting ground of Mr. 



