100 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AEANE^. 



surface concave ; projectipg from within concavity is a shprfc, 

 yellowish process ; inner horn turgid, projecting, sharply 

 recurved, and developed into a rich mahogany-brown, con- 

 tinuous membrane, which covers superior aspect of bulbous, 

 its prominently arcuated margin fitting closely to the cres- 

 centic lobe ; anterior fourth free, tapering, curves outwards 

 and backwards. 



Abdomen elongate-oyiform ; light olive-brown ; markings 

 purple-brown, ill-defined ; basal-half exhibits an acute- 

 elliptical figure, bordered with a deeper shade ; posterior-half 

 marked with about five pairs of spots ; indications of oblique 

 striped en lateral margins ; ventral region purple-brown, 

 defined by light hairs ; shield elongate, yellowish-brown, 

 bordered with light hairs. Abdomen clothed, rather thickly, 

 with light yellowish and erect brown hairs. 



Single specimen. 



Gen. Cltjbiona, Str. 

 Cluhiona elajjhines, sp. nov. 



Mas. — Ceph. th., long, 6 ; wide, 4"1 ; facial ind., 3"1. 

 Abd., long, 6-5 ; wide, 4 ; legs, 4, 1—2, 3=16, 15, 11-5 mm. 



Cejphalofhorax brownish-orange, passing into lake-chestnufe 

 on cej)halic part ; moderately clothed with fine, adpressed, 

 pale yellowish and black, bristle-like hairs, sub parallel, 

 lateral compression at caput slight. 



Posterior and anterior rows of eyes sensibly and equally 

 procurved ; hind row of about equal size ; centre-pair visibly 

 the most distant apart ; median eyes of front row more than 

 twice size of hind pair, two-thirds their breadth apart ; fore- 

 laterals exceed hind pair by one-third, interval dividing them 

 is fully equal to one-half the space separating the anteri<M: 

 pair from centrals of same row. 



Falces brownish-orange, lake-reflections ; few hairs ; rugu- 

 lose ; sub-conical, anterior- fourth somewhat constricted, pro- 

 ject much beyond plane of clypeus, inclined farwards, 

 divergent. 



MaxillcB light red-chestnut ; long, bent outwards, second- 

 half dilated, superior — external angle obliquely truncated; 

 inferior angle acutely truncated. 



Labium and maxillae concolorous ; rather more than twice 

 as long as wide, sub-parallel, roundly emarginate. 



Sturnum brownish - yellow ; ovate ; eminences opposite 

 coxae. 



Legs shade lighter than cephalothorax, metatarsal and 



