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sinuate; antcunaj ochraccous, the apical joint infusratc, 



first jt»int not reHcliin<; apex of head, second and third 



snhiijual in h'n^tli.eaeh a litth* shorter than fourth or filth ; 



pronotuni nearly t\uee as broad between humeral angles as 



nu'dian lenfjth, posterior half black, thickly punctate, 



anterior half testaceous, less thickly punctate, with two larpfc 



black spots near each anterior anjjle, behind these are two 



cciUral Icvif^ate pale ochraccous spots only separated by a 



scries of dark punctures, the ant<rior lateral inarj^ins also 



pale ochraccous, ])osterior angles obtusely prominent ; 



scutelluni black or dark castaneous, thickly coarsely punctate, 



with a large obliciue levigate pale ochraccous spot near each 



basal angle; coriuni coarsely punctate, the basal area dull 



oi!hracious, darkly punctate, the apical area blackisli ; head 



beneath black, its basal margin ochraccous ; sternum dull 



ochraccous, thickly darkly jjunctate, its lateral margins 



paler and impunetate, posterior angles of prosteruum and 



sublateral nuirgius of uicso- and nietasterna black or 



blackish : alnlomcn beneath shining black, the lateral 



margins oehraceous, somewhat thickly punctate, extreme 



lateral margin with small black spot at the segmental 



incisures; leg ochiaccous spotted with black. 



Long 5 to 5i mm. 



Hub. Queensland; Mackay [R. E. Turntr, Brit. Mus.). 

 Allied to N. furmosa, Dist., but with the basal angular 

 levigate spots to scutellum much smaller and much wider 

 apart, the levigate discal space on pronotum divided by 

 puiictures, &c., this last character also separating it from 

 N. fascioUita, Stal, which is thus described : *' marginibus 

 lateralibus anticis, fasciolaque discoidali lievigatus thoracis.'' 



Neostollia formosa. 



Hepoudaformosa, Dist. Ann. \ Mag. Nat. Hist. (J) xii. \>. 474 (1003). 

 ^lalayan Archii)clago ; Tomia. 



[To be continued.] 



LIU. — The Annlomji and Classifi^'dtion of (he Tehostean 

 I'ishvs of the Older Zeomorphi. By C. Tate UeoaN, M.A. 



(Publibhed by periuission of the Trustees of the Dritbb Museum.) 



The fishes of the order Zeomorphi are acanthopterous j)hyso- 

 clists with thoracic pelvic fin.s and the pelvic bunes directly 

 attached to the clcithia. They are peculiar in that the 



