236 Mr. H. R. Tnnicr on 



Ilah. Mt. Canaln, June 12 ; 1 ? . 



I doubt if the differences between Buodias and Skeatia are 

 of generic importance. 



Family ThjomidaB, 

 Eirone ohtusidens, sp. w. 



(S . Niger ; mandibiilis, apice exccpto, clypeo, scapo subt.us, macula 

 obliqua utrinque inter antennas, orbitis interuis, orbitis extcrnis 

 latissimc, pronoto marEjino antico, callis bumeralibus, tegulis, 

 mcsonoti dimidio apicali linea longitudinali utrinque, scutello 

 macula magna utrinqiic angulis basalibus, maculaque parva sub 

 alis flavis ; femoribus, tilMis tarsisque testaceis ; scutello macula 

 magna apicali, postscutello, segraento mediano, tergitisqne 

 secundo. tertio quartoquc testaceo-ferrugineis ; alis llavo-hyalinis, 

 venis testaceis. 



Long. 12 mm. 



$ . Mandibles much broadened to the apex, the outer tooth 

 acute, the inner tooth not well defined, represented by a broad 

 oblique cuttinfr-edge. CMypeus short and broad, scarcely at 

 all convex, produced triangularly at the apex, sparsely punc- 

 tured and sparsely clothed with long blackish hairs. Inter- 

 antennal prominence bilobed, not strongly raised. Head 

 transverse, shining and sparsely punctured. Antenna3 

 shorter than the abdomen, third joint of the flagellum dis. 

 tinctly longer than the second, the four apical joints slightly 

 arcuate beneath. Thorax and median segment shining, 

 sparsely punctured, the punctures on the median segment 

 very shallow ; anterior margin of the pronotum distinctly 

 raised and thickened. Abdomen narrow and elongate, 

 segments 2-6 parallel-sided; very sparsely punctured, the 

 segments scarcely constricted at the base, sternites finely 

 aciculate and more closely punctured than the tergites, the 

 sides of the segments siiarsely clothed with black hairs. 

 Seventh tergite long, subtruncate at the apex, rather deeply 

 punctured ; eighth sternite much longer than broad, narrowly 

 subtruncate at the apex, with an apical fringe of short fulvous 

 liairs, not |)rojecting beyond the seventh tergite. Second and 

 third abscissae of (he radius subequal, second recurrent ner- 

 vure received just beyond one-third from the base of the 

 third cubital cell. 



Ilab. Noumea, January 23. 



Not very near any Australian species of the genus, differing 

 botli in the form of the mandibles and of the clj'peus. The 

 apical joints of the maxillary palpi are not slender or elongate. 



