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paullo latioribus, ad suturam huic longitudine sat aequalibus 

 conjunctim sat transversis ; abdomine retrorsum gradatim 

 sat fortiter angustato. Long., 1 I. (vix). 

 Readily distinguishable from its described Australian congeners 

 ''by its entirely different coloring, its less strongly transverse pro- 

 thorax, the very evidently finer puncturation of its elytra and 

 hind body, &c. There is a slightly infuscate tone about the 

 hind part of its elytra. 



N. Queensland ; taken by the late Mr. Cowley. 

 Tabulation of Characters. 

 A. Antennce entirely dark ... ... ... lugens, Blackb. 



AA. Antennas (except apical joint) entirely pale 



yellow ... ... ... ... ... Scorpio, Blackb. 



AAA. Antenna with at least basal four joints pale 

 and at least apical three joints dark. 



B. General color black or dark piceous. 



C Subapical joints of antennre very strongly 



transverse ... ... ... ... validum, Blackb. 



CC. Subapical joints of antennie much less 



strongly transverse ... ... ... sidneense, Fauv. 



BB. General color testaceous or pale rafous ... elegant aliwi, Blackb. 



CILEA. 

 Under this generic name Mr. Lea (in Pr. L. Soc, N.S.W., 

 1898, pp. 531 and 532) described two species, and neither of 

 them seems to me really to belong to Cilea. C. rivularis differs 

 from Cilea by, inter alia, its very short tarsi (very much shorter 

 than their tibiae), the basal joint of which is very little elongated. 

 Mr. Lea has been so good as to send me some specimens of this 

 insect, but unfortunately they are so much clogged with gum 

 tragacanth tiiat it is impossible to treat such minute creatures as 

 would be necessary to feel certain of what their generic place is. 

 It is certainly not Cilea, however. Their tarsi seem too short 

 even for Tachimis, but such examination as I can make does not 

 reveal any other objection to placing them in that genus. I 

 suspect, however, that an examination of fresh specimens would 

 justify their having a new generic name. They are very much 

 smaller than any Tachinus known to me. 



C. amabilis. — I have four specimens from various parts of 

 Victoria (the name confirmed by Mr. Lea). The non-carinate 

 mesosternum of this insect separates it at once from Cilea, and it 

 seems to be certainly an ordinary Tachyporus. I should add 

 that Mr. Lea has himself expressed doubt as to whether his 

 amabilis is a true Cilea. 



TACHINUS. 



T. novitius, Blackb. Since I described the male of this 

 insect (from the Australian Alps) 1 have taken additional 

 specimens near Fernshaw, in the Dividing Range, and am now 



