Mr. R. E. Turacr on Fossorial ITjiwinoptert. 199 



anfennre about equal in lengtli to the thorax and median 

 sei^nient combined. Eyes separateil on tlie vertex by a 

 distance not quite equal to the length of the second and third 

 joints of the tlagellum combined, ^lesonotum finely and 

 closely punctured, somewhat depressed in the midtlle of the 

 anterior margin ; median segment as broad at the base as 

 long, moderately narrowed towards the apex, and vertically 

 truncate, the dorsal surface coarsely transversely striated with 

 an obscine median sulcus, the surface of the posterior trunca- 

 tion with a well-defined median sulcus and a few irregular 

 stria3. Abdomen smooth and shining, segments 1—3 with an 

 apical fascia of whitish jiubescence. Tarsal ungues short. 

 ^Second abscissa of the radius half as Ion;;' auain as the third, 

 the first a little shorter than the second and third combined. 

 The two recurrent nervures are nearer to each other than 

 the first is to the btise of the second cubital cell, which is 

 about one quarter longer than the third on the cubital 

 nervure. Tliird transverse cubital nervure oblique, curved 

 slightly outwards close to the cubital nervure. liaditil cell 

 broad, more than half as broad as the length on the costa, 

 broadly truncate at tlie apex, with a distinct appendiculate 

 cell. 

 Hah. Mimika River \ 2 S S > J^^lj ^"cl August, 



Genus DiCRANORHiNA, Shuck. 



Dicratiorhina, Shuck., Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopfedia, Natural History, 



Insects (Swainson and Shuckard, 1840). 

 Piagetia, Kits. Ent. M. Mag. ix. p. 129 (1872). 



Shuckard's name must, I think, hold good for this genus. 

 As Mr. Distant has pointed out to me, the name is not pre- 

 occupied in Coleoptcra, Hope's genu^ Dicronorhina, 1837, 

 having been corrected to DicranorrJiina by IJurmeister in 

 1842.° 



17. Dicranorhina wollastoni, sp. n. 



2 . Nigra, opaca, fulvo-pilosa, abdomine nitido ; pedibus anteriori- 

 bu3 pallide testaceis ; alls hyalinis, fascia lata fusca ante apicem, 

 venis nigris. 



Long. 9 mm. 



? . Clypeus short and broad, truncate at tlie apex, with a 

 median longitudinal carina. Second joint of the flagelluni 

 twice as long as the first, and equal in length to the third. 

 Eyes separated on the vertex by a distance equal to the 

 len^ith of the first and second joints of the flagellum com- 



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