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as I could wish. I can only see one apical joint, but from the 

 shortness of the head, and the evident resemblance in most 

 characters to genera with bifid mandibles rather than to 

 Atractus and its allies, I cannot help thinking it probable that 

 this species really has bifid mandibles. 



H. discoidalis, sp. nov. Subnitida ; minus convexa ; oblongo- 

 ovalis ; fere glabra; testacea, capite postice palporum apice 

 antennis (basi excepta) prothoraceque rufo-infuscatis, elytris 

 (plaga magna elongata discoidali utrinque livida excepta) 

 abdominisque parte apicali nigris ; capite prothoraceque 

 subcoriaceis minus crebre leviter punctulatis ; hoc sat trans- 

 verso antice vix angustato, medio ante basin foveato ; elytris 

 punctulato-striatis, interstitiis sat planis sparsim sat fortiter 

 punctulatis, striarum punctis quadratis sat crebris. Long., 

 2 1. ; lat., -/_ 1. 



The livid patch on each elytron nearly reaches the base, but 

 does not extend hindward much beyond the middle, and is some- 

 w^hat narrowed from the base hindward. The size, color, and 

 markings give this little species some resemblance to a Lehiid 

 (e.g., Ectroma civicicm, Newm.). 



Victoria ; Alpine district ; a single example under bark. 



PYTHID.E. 



The genus characterised below as Trichosalpingus, though much 

 like Saljnngus in form, is really an extremely anomalous type 

 which will not tit exactly into any family as characterised by M. 

 Lacordaire. It agrees with the Pythidfe in the following charac- 

 ters : — Front coxa? contiguous, but little exserted and open 

 behind, hind cox^e separated and strongly transverse, eyes lateral 

 entire, pronotum much narrower than the elytra at its base, not 

 separated from the flanks of the prosternum, prosternum trun- 

 cate in front; but it difters in the structure of its tarsi, the 

 penultimate joint of which is prolonged beneath the claw-joint, 

 while the claws are strongly thickened at the base. 



Some one or more of the above-mentioned characters are 

 inconsistent with a place in any other of the known families of 

 Ileteromera. 



TRICHOSALPINGUS (gen. nov.). 

 Mentum transversim subquadratum ; palporum articulus ultimus 

 ovalis ; gen?e (?) subtus spiniformes ; oculi sat magni 

 prominentes sat fortiter granulati ; caput sat breve antice 

 late breviter rostriforme (fere ut Scdpingi) ; antennae breves 

 subtiliformes ; prothorax sat quadra tus ; elytra sat elongata ; 

 pedes breves, femoribus tibiisque fere ut Salpingi ; tarsi 

 heteromeri, articulo penultimo subtus producto, posticorum 



