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sum, a prosterno carina haud distinctum ; quam caput paullo 

 latius, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, angulis fere nullis ; 

 scutellum modicum fortiter transversum ; elytra quam pro- 

 thorax latiora sat elongata ; coxae anticae longitudinales 

 inter se fere contiguae postice late apertae ; coxae intermedia? 

 longitudinales inter se sat approximate ; coxa3 posticae inter 

 se sat approximate? ; processus intercoxalis angustus brevis ; 

 pedes modici, tibiis ad apicem minute mucronatis, tarsorum 

 posticorum articulo basali ceteris conjunctis longitudine 

 aequali (3° breviter bilobo) ; forma nonnihil Telephorum 

 simulans ; corpus supra capillis erectis minus elongatis 

 crebre vestitum. 

 This is another perplexing Heteromerous insect on which I 

 have asked the opinion of Mr. Champion. He thinks it must 

 be a Melandryid near Trichosalpingus, which when I characterised 

 it I referred with much hesitation to the Pythidce noting that its 

 tarsal structure was not of the Pythid type. Its tarsi are 

 Melandryid in character, but its pronotuin not divided by a 

 carina from the prosternum excludes it (according to M. Lacor- 

 daire) from the Melandryidce. Mr. Champion however evidently 

 considers that the tarsal rather than the prothoracic structure 

 should be the determining character (and I regard his opinion as 

 very conclusive) as he refers Trichosalpingus to the Melandryidce. 

 There is no doubt of Trichosalpingus and Paromarteon being 

 structurally near each other — although they are superficially very 

 unlike, the former having an apparent Pythid aspect and the 

 latter a facies more suggestive of a Telephorid. 



P. mulabile, sp. now Sat nitidum ; capite prothoraceque rufis, 

 elytris pedibusque (tarsorum apice piceo excepto) testaceis, 

 corpore subtus (prosterno excepto) antennisque (basi testacea 

 excepta) piceis ; nonnullorum exemplorum capite elytrisque 

 plus minusve vel omni no picescentibus ; capite prothora- 

 ceque subtiliter sparsissitne, elytris sat crebre minus subti- 

 liter, corpore subtus sparsim minus perspicue, punctulatis. 

 Long., 14 1. ; lat., £ 1. 

 Victoria ; Alpine Region. 



SCRAPTIA. 



S. lunulata, sp. nov. Minus elongata ; minus nitida ; sat longe 

 pubescens ; piceo-brunnea ; in elytris macula communi ante- 

 mediana sublunata et apice toto, antennis, pedibusque, sor- 

 dide testaceis ; oculis sat magnis grosse granulatis ; antennis 

 elongatis sat gracilibus, articulo 3° quam 2 ua fere duplo 

 longiori 4° longitudine sat a?quali ; prothorace fortiter trans- 

 verso, cum capite requaliter crebre subfortiter aspere punc- 

 tulato, angulis posticis acutis, basi media late lobata ; elytris 



