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Pi/ge shortridjtij s\i. ii. 



Colore fusco-testaceo, nigro-marraorato ; forcipis bracehia J remota, 

 valde arcuata, apice biraucronata. 



6. 



Long, corpoi'is 20 m'm. 



„ forcipis 4 ,, 



General colour dark testaceous, marbled and mottled with 

 blackish, strongly pubescent. 



Antennae testaceous. 



Head dark testaceous, indistinctly shaded with fuscous. 



Pronotum about as broad as the head, parallel-sided; poste- 

 rior margin straight, angles gently rounded ; anterior niaioin 

 di.stinctly convex, rounded, dark testaceous, with two indistinct 

 blackish bands. 



Scutellum broad, testaceous, banded with blackish. 



Elytra narrow and short, dark testaceous, with indistinct 

 blackish ban.ds. 



Legs dirty yellowish, indistinctly shaded witli dark brow n. 



Abdomen testaceous, with a doidjle black dorsal band and 

 one down each side ; gradually widening from base to apex, 

 where the yellowish and blackish fuse into a uniform deep 

 reddish brown. Venter dirty testaceous; last dorsal segment 

 square, ample, smooth, broader than the abdomen, deep red- 

 brown, with some faint blackish pattern. 



Penultimate ventral segment broad and quadrate; poste- 

 rior margin truncate, with a median canal in the a{)ical half. 



Pygidium hidden. 



Forceps with the branches remote at tiie base, depressed 

 and dilated at the base itself on the inner margin ; strongly 

 arched, including a scutiforin ai-ea, meeting before the apex 

 at a very blunt tooth, finely crenulate here, the inner margin 

 then straight and contiguous to the tips, which are hooked. 



W. Australia -. I S [G. C. Slwrtridye, type in B. M.). 



This is the only known species o£ Pyge with remote 

 forceps and mottled uniform, recalling that of the South- 

 African Picrania Uturata, Stdl. The forceps are very charac- 

 teristic, and especially the square and sulcate penultimate 

 ventral segment, which may later justify the erection of a 

 new ginus. 



Subfamily Pauisolabinm. 



ParisOPSALIS, gen. nov. 



Antenna: 15-segmentis, tertio eloiigato, 4 et 5 tertio brcvioribus, 



