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part of the eye to lie ^een. behind the side of eacli depression the margin of the 

 prothorax is rather tliiii. and, ahhough not really tuhercnlate. appears as a \er_\- 

 ronspicuons and ratlur acute process when \icwed from lieliind. 



CHLAMYDOPSIS PALLIDA sp. nov. 



Pale castaneuns, almost fla\ous. Head, pronotum and prosternum with a 

 ftvv pale setae. 



Head finely reticulate. Antennae with liasal joint large, irregularly trian- 

 gular, and in front with sculpture as on face; intermediate joint'- thin and closely 

 ap[)lied: cluh large, suhcylindrical. and moderately curxed. I'rothorax almost 

 twice as wide as long, sides narrowly ele\ated and Sduiewhat (jhlique, front 

 gently bilohed in middle, gently undulating to each side and notched at each end. 

 disc convex, depressed towards each side and conspicuously concave at each 

 front angle ; reticulation as on head. Elytra slightly wider than long, base with 

 a wide transverse excavation, closed at each side, and with a slightly elevated, 

 setose, transverse ridge near its base : behind the excavation and on the sides 

 with rather numerous but feclile striae. Prostcniiim reticulate on middle portion; 

 metasternuni and al.idomen shining, and each with a row of small punctures at 

 base: propvgidinm >lightl\' reticulate; pygidium smooth. Lri/.f moderately long ; 

 front tibiae, for the genus, not \ery wide, the others considerably wider, obliquely 

 increasing from base to middle, and then gently rounded to apex. Length. 2 mm. 



Hub. New South Wales: Sydney (W, du Boulay). Type, I.9302. 



Somewhat resembles C. chiplcuralis on a small scale, but the epaulettes are 

 very diif erent : the prothorax is more conspicuously reticulate, the elytra are 

 glabrous, witli their striation finer, and tibiae not angulate about the middle 

 (although the four hind ones are conspicuovisly inlfated). From one antenna 

 of the type the club is missing, the other club from behind ap]jears to be solid, 

 but in front the obscure sutures are invisible. The epaulettes are curved, shining, 

 and each is in one piece, without a hole perforating it from sitle to side, there is 

 a shallow depression representing the perforation of other species, but the space 

 about the deiiression is shining, and without striae converging towards it; the 

 epaulettes are also without conspicuous clothing, but within each there appears 

 to be a \'ery short membrane. Mr. du Boulay obtained three specimens from 

 nests of a small reddish ant; Mr. E. H. Zeck has also taken a specimen from a 

 nest of the same kind of ant, which he states is Meraiioplus liirsutiis. 



Family BYRRHIDAE. 

 CHELONARIUM Fabr. 



Syst. F.l. i: iHoi, p. 101. I.acord. (Sen. des. Cole(i]il., ii, ji. 488. Leconte, 

 Class. Col. N. Amer., i, p. 112. Sharp, Biol. Centr. Amer., Col. ii, part i. p. (184. 



