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suture, the extreme apices also bordered by testaceous; elytral 
epipleurae absent; tibiae unarmed; claws appendiculate; the first 
joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the three following joints. 
Hab. New Guinea, Fly River (L. M. D'Albertis). 
28. Agelastica melanocephala, Baty. 
Hab. Australia, Somerset, January (L. M. D’Albertis). 
A good many specimens obtained at the above locality agree 
perfectly with the description of the author. It may be here the 
place to mention that the genus Synodita Chapuis is identical 
with Agelastica and his species Synodita Borrei synonymic to 
Agelastica humeralis Baly, likewise from Australia. 
Chapuis made a mistake when he described the anterior coxal 
cavities as closed in Synodita; they are open and all the tibiae 
are armed with a spine as is also the case in Agelastica. 
29. Agelastica flavicollis, n. sp. 
Black; the 3 basal joints of the antennae, the head, thorax 
and legs, flavous ; elytra black, very minutely punctured. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head impunctate, deeply transversely grooved between the 
eyes, the latter large; the frontal tubercles narrowly transverse; 
palpi and the apices of the jaws piceous; antennae rather more 
than half the length of the body, black, the 3 lower joints 
flavous, the third joint double the length of the second, but 
one half shorter than the fourth one; thorax nearly twice as 
broad as long, the lateral and the posterior margins rounded, 
the latter oblique at the angles, surface rather convex, impunc- 
tate, sometimes with a small fovea at each side; scutellum 
flavous; elytra extremely finely and closely punctured, their 
epipleurae continued to the apices; tibiae mucronate; the first 
joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the three following joints 
together ; claws appendiculate; anterior coxal cavities open. 
Hab. Australia, Somerset (L. M. D’Albertis). 
