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apical border, anal vein gradually curved and terminating near 
the middle of the hindmargin ; membrane brown, translucent, ; 
margin of costal area dark brown, larger part of costal vein 
bordered broadly with black, radial vein dark brown at and 
beyond the middle ; basal half of veins impressed punctate, basal 
half of elytra with a row of minute brown dots between most of 
the veins. Wings with a distinct, but small, triangular area, 
pale translucent ; veins dark brown, transverse veinlets whitish. 
Abdomen short, broad, piceous above, paler at the base, testaceous 
beneath ; margin breadly black. Supra-anal lamina of female 
large, flat; median furrow distinct, hindmargin semicircular, 
entire. Subgenital lamina very large, transverse, arcuate; hind-— 
margin subsemicircular. Cerci lanceolate, much shorter than the 
lamina. Collection S.A. Museum. 
Length of body ae eR Sn iabias 
Length of elytra pe ae Sie ar tO. ce 
Length of pronotum ay tL Tend see 
Width of pronotum .... a pons 
Habitat—Yam Creek, Northern Teertony of South Australia 
(presented by Prof. R. Tate, F.LS2: 
There is a single, but perfect, specimen before me which, how- 
ever, differs in so many details from other species known to me 
that it probably requires a separate genus for its reception, the 
characters of which are indicated by the italicised portions of the 
above description. The species resembles Vauwphocta to some 
extent, but differs in the structure of the anal appendages. The 
place of the suggested genus would be probably between Phoraspis 
and £pilampra. 
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GEOSCAPHEUSID. 
(FEOSCAPHEUS ROBUSTUS, Z'epper. 
Since the publication of my first paper I have received speci- 
mens of this species from two more localities very far apart, and 
showing the wide distribution, viz., from the neighbourhood of 
Oodnadatta in Central Australia, and Victoria. Of the latter 
place they are in the possession of Mr. C. French. Those of the 
former were presented by Mr. J. Lipman, Adelaide, during 
September, 1893. Of the ten specimens three had survived the 
rough transit by post in almost a loose packing, and were put in 
a tin with a thick layer of compressed moist soil, a mixture of 
clay and sand. They at once exhibited their appreciation of the 
new quarters, and also their surmised habits, by burrowing into 
the soil head foremost and concealing themselves. When thus 
engaged they employ not only head and forelegs, but also the 
other two pairs, appearing to sink into the soil without raising 
