504 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 



antice paulo constricto, necnon ad latera in medio sub- 

 sinuato ; elytris antice transversim subplicato-rugosis, pos- 

 tice parce tuberculato-asperatis ; metasterno breviusculo ; 

 abdominis segm tis l mo et 2 do linea recta argute divisis. 

 Antennas breves, subgraciles ; scapo brevi ; funiculi (minus 

 compacti) art. l mo magno, antice recte truncate ; capitulo 

 rotundato-ovali. Pedes subgraciles, anteriores contigui ; 

 tarsis elongatis, gracilibus, art. l mo elongate, 3 tio vix latiore 

 sed minutissime bilobo, ult. mo elongate. 



Hab. ins. S t<e Helena, Africam australem, et ins. Japo- 

 nicas. Stenoscelis. 



1. NOTIOMIMETES (nov. gen.). If the minute insect 

 (scarcely one line in length) from which the details for the 

 present genus have been compiled, and which I have re- 

 ceived from Mr. Pascoe as having been captured on the 

 sea-shore at King George's Sound in the south of Aus- 

 tralia, be (as I think, from the structure of its abdomen, 

 antennas, and general facies, that it is) a veritable member 

 of the Cossonidce, it appears to me to be absolutely neces- 

 sary to erect a separate subfamily to receive it ; for 

 although in its most significant character of a 4-jointed 

 funiculus, as well as in its fusiform outline and obsolete 

 scutellum, it agrees sufficiently with the Dry ophthor ides, 

 it is nevertheless so radically different from the exponents 

 of that section in the fact of its tibise being free from a 

 terminal hook, in its very widely separated coxag (which 

 are more remote from each other than in any Cossonid 

 which I have yet seen), and in its pseudotetramerous feet, 

 that I do not believe it can possibly be associated with 

 them. Indeed its apically-unarmed tibiae would, in my 

 opinion, have almost sufficed to exclude it from the Cosso- 

 nidce altogether, was not that particular feature one of the 

 main characteristics of the subfamily Onycholipides, which 

 I have regarded (and, I cannot but think, correctly so) 

 as aberrant, fossorial Cossonids. Moreover its immersed 

 head and obsolete eyes, as well as its bald and rather 

 shining surface (which is entirely free from mud-like 

 scales), are characters which are quite unprecedented in 

 any of the hitherto-known representatives of the Dryopli- 

 thorides. 



In other respects (each of them of considerable im- 

 portance), Notiomimetes recedes from the Dry ophthor ides 



