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On a neio Gtmis o/* PytliiJje. 



apices cleft ; mentuni strongly transverse ; terminal joint of 

 tlie labial palpi oblong-ovate, narrow, that of the maxillary 

 pair short-ovato, rather stont, and obliqiu'ly truncate at the 

 tip; antennjB short, widening outwards; ))rothorax short- 

 oval, obliquely compressed at the sides posteriorly, finely 

 margined at the base, immarginate laterally ; scutellum 

 transverse, subvertical ; elytra oval, striato-punctate, the 

 epipleura rapidly narrowed and about reaching the second 

 ventral .suture ; prosternum wtdl developed anteriorly ; ante- 

 rior coxje separated by a narrow lamella, the cavities open 

 behind and closed by the narrow sinuous ridge on the front 

 of the mesosternum ; metasternum short, the episterna 

 narrow ; ventral segments decreasing in length, 4 and 5 

 subequal; tarsi pilose beneath, rather stout, the ante- 

 penultimate joint excavate to near the base above for the 

 rece[)tion of the small narrow peniiltini.ite joint, the terminal 

 jiiint and claws long; wings wanting. 



Type, F. falklandiea. 



The single species from which tlie above characters are 

 taken has been found in numbers (dead) in seeds of tussac- 

 grass, Poa flahellata {l)actylis ccB^pitosa), sent from the 

 Falkland Islands for the purpose of attempting to introduce 

 the plant into Scotland. 



It may be described as large, pallid, apterous Salpingua, 

 Gyll. {Sj>/iCBries(es, Steph.), with small, convex, lat^jrally 

 projecting eyes, a short, broad, deeply inserted head, and 

 rather stout tarsi, with the ante-penultimate joint deeply 

 excavate above for the reception of the narrow penultimate 

 one. Two allied nionoty[)ic genera, Thalassogeton and 

 Chorinienum, from the I.-land of South Georgia'^, in the 

 S. Atlantic, liave been recorded by Behrens (Stett. ent. Zeit. 

 1887, pp. 18-22, pi.). These S. Georgian insects have the 

 head more exserted than in the present genus, the eyes less 

 piominent, the tarsi simple, the antennaj subtiliform, &c. 



Poophyl'ix /(tlklandica^ sp. n. 



Oblong-oval, somewhat convex, .shining, sordid testaceous, 

 the eyes and the tip.sof the mandibie.s black, almost glabrous. 

 Head sparsely, irregularly punctate, transversely depressed 

 on the vertex anrl with two large fovese in front ; antennse 

 rather stont, aboiit reaching the liind angles of the prothorax, 

 j )ints 6-10 gradually becoming stouter, 9 and 10 about as 

 broad as long, 11 ovate. Protliorax rather convex, wider 

 than the head, broader than long, narrowed and con.stricted 



* Tiissac-grass is also found on this island, according to .Skottsberg. 



