CHAMBERLIN : MVHIOI'ODA of nil. Al'STRAIIAN REGION. / 



the tibia also with a single stout tooth near distal end; metatarsus 

 with a scries of about eight to eleven teeth below; the first tarsal joint 

 with two stout teeth below. 

 Length, 18 nun. 



8. Cryptops ETHOPHOR, sp. nov. 



Type — M. C. Z. 2,013. Paratypes — M. C. Z. 2,014. Fijis: 

 Lasema (W. M. Mann). 



Color fulvous or in part light ferruginous. 



Cephalic plate with two short sulci behind. Antennae short; 

 composed of seventeen articles, all of which are very short. First 

 dorsal plate with a sharply impressed cervical sulcus which is angled at 

 the middle; paired longitudinal sulci present, rather light, converging 

 cephalad but not meeting. Second tergite only half or less the length 

 of the first. Prosternum with anterior margin chitinous, weakly 

 convex on each side, shallowly emarginate at middle, the margin 

 w T holly smooth or with but one or two much reduced hairs on each side. 

 Ventral plates not roughened. Last ventral plate narrowed caudad, 

 caudal corners rounded, caudal margin between them straight. 

 Spiracles nearly circular. All tarsi excepting those of last two pairs 

 of legs uniarticulate. Setae of legs excepting the twenty first of ordi- 

 nary form. Femur and tibia of anal legs armed beneath with numer- 

 ous long spiniform setae, a narrow longitudinal naked area on each; 

 the spinules on ectal side and those on mesal side above much shorter. 

 Metatarsus of anal legs with three teeth beneath, the first tarsal 

 joint with two. 



Length, 8-9 mm. 



9. Cryptops relictus, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C Z. 2,118. Paratypes.— M. C. Z. 2,119. Fijis: 

 Nagasu (W. M. Mann). 



Color orange to ferruginous. 



Caudal margin of head free, only slightly overlapping the first plate. 

 Antennae composed of seventeen articles. First dorsal plate with 

 transverse sulcus angularly bent back at middle; two longitudinal 

 sulci which bifurcate anteriorly, the inner branches meeting at the 

 angle of the transverse sulcus. Anterior margin of prosternum a little 

 indented at middle, each side only slightly convex, marginal setae 

 4 + 4. Sternites with the usual cruciform impression of which both 



