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the same. The front tibicie are not very different, but their ex- 

 ternal margin is distinctly shorter than their obliquely truncate 

 apex, and forms an obtuse tooth at the point of junction with the 

 latter. Tlie legs are about of equal length inter se — all evidently 

 shorter than (say) the length of the elytra. 



Sonth Australia ; near Woodville. 

 C. infcqualis, sp. nov. Femina (?). Minus opaea ; piceo-ferru- 

 ginea, antennis dilutioribus ; crassissime punctulato-strigosa 

 (elytrorum parte basali media, metasterno, abdominisque seg- 

 raentis basalibus et apicalibus, subtiliter, fere ut C. sternalis, 

 sculpturatis exceptis), abdominis parte intermedia fere lajvi ; 

 prothorace antice valde rellexo elevato-marginato (margine 

 elevato 6-lobato, lobis intermediis 4 quam externi minus 

 elevatis multo minus latis), margine antico quam basis sat 

 latiori, laterilDUs mox pone marginem anticum retrorsum con- 

 vergentibus hinc ad basin parallelis ; scutello haud perspieuo ; 

 elytrorum humeris externe spiniformibus, callis humeralibus 

 maximi gibbosis, parte basali mediana valde depressa (hac 

 subtiliter sculpturata), a parte postica (hac crassissime sculp- 

 turata) sulco jDrofundo transverso divisa ; pygidio propy- 

 gidioque rotundatim subverticalibus ; pedibus anticis 4 quam 

 elytra (posticis quam corpus totum) longioribus ; prosterno 

 aequali. Long., 2 1. (vix) ; lat., 1 1. 

 The six lobes into which the strongly upturned front margin 

 of the prothorax is divided are not very apparent unless tlie out- 

 line be looked at obliquely from behind, or from in front. The 

 tibiae (allowing for the much greater length of the legs) are shaped 

 very much as those of C. sternalis, except that the external 

 margin of the intermediate pair meets the truncate liind margin 

 (as in the front pair) in a strong obtuse tooth, and that the ex- 

 ternal margin of the liind pair is very much longer tlian the 

 truncate hind margin. 



South Australia ; near Woodville. 



PHALACRID.E. 



The only Australian species that I can ascertain to have been 

 already described belonging to this family is Flialacrus briinneus, 

 Er., from Tasmania, for which, togetlier with SphcericUum 

 iestaceum, Fab., Dr. Erichson (Ins. Deutsch. III., p. 108) founded 

 a new genus — Litoclirus. In 1889 a revision of the family, with 

 especial reference to the N. American species was published in 

 the Annals of the New York Academy, in which Litochrus seems 

 to have been re-described. I have not been able to consult this 

 memoir, but from the notice of it in the " Zoological Record," I 

 should infer that neither of the species attributed to Litochrus by 

 Erichson has been removed from it. I will, liowever, take the 



