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head is smaller and more trausveiss than is usual in the 

 Helcoiiinse, and the abdomen is [)laced lower on tlie median 

 segment, almost as low as in tiie Diospilinte, to whicli sub- 

 family the species shows some approach; but the abdomen is 

 loner and slender, and I think it is best placed here. 

 Ilab. New Zealand. 



Genus Brulleia, Szepl. 



Bralleia chinensis, sp. n. 



cJ . Rufo-ochrnceus ; flagello, articulo basali excepto, mandibulis 

 apice, abdoiuine segmentis tertio, basi excepto, sequentibusque, 

 tibiis posticis dimidio apicali, tarsisqne posticis, articulo apicali 

 excepto, nigris ; alia flavo-hyalinis, venis ferrugineis, stigmata 

 costaque nigris. 



Long. 20 mm. 



^ . Mandibles bidentate at the ajx'X, the upper tooth 

 distinctly longer than the lower ; clypeus short, truncate at 

 the apex, the labrum exposed. Head transverse, broadtr 

 than the thorax, the whole, including the labrum, vevy hnely 

 and closely punctured ; frontal excavation not very deep, but 

 well defineJ ; eyes about three times as long as the cheeks. 

 Antennae long, broken at the apex beyond the thirty -sixtli 

 joint. Thorax finely and closely punctured ; middle lobe of 

 the mesonotum not prominent ; parapsidal furrows deep, 

 crenulated ; postscutellum distantly longitudinally striated. 

 Median segment rugose, with an indistinct semicircular basal 

 area and two indistinct longitudinal carinie very close together 

 near the middle; tiiese carinee diverge on the apical slo[)e, 

 enclosing a small semicircular area ; the lateral margins of 

 the segment with strong carinai, the spiracles large and oval ; 

 a longitudinal striated groove below the spiracles. First 

 tergite rugose, broadened from the base, three times as long 

 as its apical breadth, with a longitudinal carina running 

 from each of the basal angles nearly to the middle ; second 

 tergite finely puuctured-rugulose in the middle, the remainder 

 of the abdomen very finely and closely punctured. Hind 

 metatarsus as long as the four apical tarsal joints combined. 

 Anal cell with two transverse nervures. First discoidal cell 

 sessile ; recurrent nervure received by the second cubital cell 

 near the base ; second abscissa of tiie radius nearly twice as 

 long as tiie first, fully as long as the second transverse 

 cubital nervure, which is oblique, but not bent; nervulus 

 interstitial. 



