New and Uttle-hnmon Lagriidae and Pedilidae. L95 



and in a large nearly black female from Gawler (ex coll. 

 Pascoe) it is only just traceable. In a male sent me many 

 years ago by Blackburn the stripes are broad and separate 

 throughout. The median groove on the prothorax is 

 sometimes obsolete. The penis-sheath of the <£ is dis- 

 tinctly angulate at some distance before the apex beneath, 

 showing an approach towards the sagittiform structure 

 observable in Eurygenius. The apical joint of the antennae 

 is considerably elongated, and constricted at the middle, 

 in both sexes. 



2. Egestria suturalis. (Plate LXIII, fig. 9, $.) 

 $. Egestria suturalis, Pasc, loc. cit., p. 359. 



Hob. N. Austkalia [type] and New South Wales. 



Described from a single example, $. There are two 

 males of it in the Museum, from the F. Bates collection, 

 labelled N.S. Wales, and Mr. Carter has recently sent me 

 another from the same locality. The apical joint of the 

 antennae is not elongated in this insect in either sex. The 

 penis-sheath of the <$ is more distinctly angulate beneath 

 than in the same sex of E. taeniata. 



Egestrina, n. gen. 



Terminal joint of maxillary palpi oblong-subtriangular; antennae 

 short, the outer joints obconie, the apical one ovate; head broad, 

 well developed behind the widely .separated, rather prominent eyes, 

 the latter subtruncate in front; prothorax oblong-cordate, con- 

 stricted at the middle, with a very short neck in front ; elytra long, 

 confusedly punctate; legs moderately long; anterior coxa! cavities 

 open behind; the other characters as in Egestria, Pasc. 



Type, Egestria sulcicollis, Blackb. 



If Egestria is to be retained as distinct from Diacalla. 

 E. sulcicollis, and an allied form from Swan River, cannot 

 be included in the same genus, on account of the less 

 elongate apical joint of the maxillary palpi. This char- 

 acter also separates the two Australian insects from 

 Stereopalpns, Laf., the typical N .-American species of the 

 latter having a similar uniform vestiture. Egestrina is not 

 unlike the Chilean genus Mitraelabrus, Sol.; but the latter 

 has a much longer head, a cultriform apical joint to the 

 maxillary palpi, a small penultimate joint to the tarsi, etc. 



