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second joint. I think it quite possible that the species presenting 

 the above characters might with advantage be divided into 

 several genera, but it would be better for such division to be 

 made by someone having a larger collection of Phalacridce from 

 all parts of the world than I possess. Meanwhile no difficulty is 

 likely to occur through my treating the genus in this manner if 

 students referring to my descriptions will bear in mind the sense 

 in which I use the name Parasemus. I do not think any of the 

 species I call by the name are members of any other genus yet 

 characterized. 



P. adumbrahis, sp. nov. Sat late ovalis, postice obtusus ; 

 nitidus ; obscure rufo-brunneus, pronoti et elytrorum disco 

 plus minusve infuscato ; antennis sat robustis, articulis 

 30 — 6" subcylindricis, 3° quam 4""' dimidio longiori, 4° 6° que 

 inter se sat a^qualibus, 5° quam 4""' noanihil longiori, 7*^ non- 

 nihil latiori (5° longitudine sat sequali), 8" quam 7"^^ paullo 

 breviori sedhuiclatitudine sat sequali, 9° quam 8'^^ multo majori 

 sat fortiter trans verso, 10 9° sat simili sed paullo latiori, 

 IPturbinato quam praecedentes 2 conjuncti vix breviori vix 

 latiori ; clypeo subelongato antice sat angustato, ad apicem 

 subtruncato; prothorace fortiter transverso, supra subtilissime 

 crebre punctulato, puncturis nonnullis minus subtilibus im- 

 presso, stria laterali apicem haud attingenti sed intus 

 oblique ad marginem anticum curva ; elytris seriatim sub- 

 tilius punctulatis (seriebus basin versus sat obsoletis), inter- 

 stitiis puncturis quam serierum parum minoribus minus 

 crebre impressis ; tarsis posticis sat robustis, articulo basali 

 quam 2"^^ multo breviori ; tibiis sat latis compressis. Long., 

 If 1.; lat., 1 1. 



Of described species P. torrid^is, Black b., is that to which the 

 present one is nearest, but P. torridus is very much smaller, 

 with its hind tibiae shorter and wider, the difference in size 

 between the seriate and interstitial punctures of its elytra con- 

 siderably more marked, &c. In the present species the spine at 

 the apex of the metasternal episterna is very strong and sharp, 

 the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is scarcely shorter than the 

 preceding two together and is subcylindric, and the front and 

 intermediate tarsi are dilated. A specimen from the Dividing 

 Range, Victoria, scarcely differs but seems to be a little more 

 strongly punctured on the interstices of the elytra. In my 

 tabulation of the species of Parasemus (Tr. R.S., S.A., 1895, p. 

 214) P. adumbratus finds its place beside P. lateralis, Blackb., 

 and victoriensis, Blackb., from both of which it differs hiter alia 

 multa by the form of its clypeus. 



N.S. Wales (Mr. Lea, Galston). 



