526 ME. "W. F. KIEBT ON 



towards the extremity. Forceps longer than the last segment, 

 very stout, contiguous at the base and curving inwards at the 

 tips ; towards the base is a strong tooth on the inner edge, 

 which is finely denticulated beyond. 



Sab. Cape Leeuwin, "W. Australia. 



Described from two specimens. Kesembles A. Uttorea, 

 White, from New Zealand, but is more slender, lighter in 

 colour, and the forceps is differently formed. 



Genus Spaeatta, Serv. 



Spaeatta apicalis, sp. n. (PL XX. fig. 7 ; 7 a, pygidium and 

 forceps.) 



Long. Corp. cum forcip. 10 millim. ; segm. term, cum forcip. 

 3 millim. 



Shining black, mouth -parts testaceous; anteunse dirty 

 yellowish brown, the joints white at the base; head with a 

 conspicuous white line crossing the vertex before the occiput, 

 and running round the front of the clypeus ; legs dirty yellow, 

 the femora brown ; terminal segment luteous, often more or less 

 blackish in the middle. Porceps luteous, gradually curved, 

 denticulated to the middle on the upper and inner carinse, and 

 with a small tooth about the middle of the latter ; in the male, 

 the tips are black, and more strongly incurved than in the 

 female. Pygidium in the male short, broad, with a tubercle at 

 the sides, and barely convex in the middle ; in the female almost 

 square, with a tubercle at the angles, and the centre but slightly 

 projecting in a very obtuse angle. 



Mah. Theresopolis (FruAstorfer) ; E.io {Fry). 



A very distinct species, probably allied to S.pelvimetra, Serville; 

 but in that species the abdomen is described as reddish fulvous, 

 with the extremity darker. 



Spaeatta Claekii, sp. n. (PI. XX. figs. 8 ; 8 «, pygidium 

 and forceps.) 



Long. Corp. cum forcip. 14 millim. ; segm. term, cum forcip. 

 7 millim. ; long, forcip. 3*5 millim. 



Head, pronotum, tegmina, and exposed part of wings black 

 and shining, lower edge of clypeus grey, palpi luteous. Antennge 

 with the scape and the short 2nd joint black, the latter more 

 or less reddish ; the following joints reddish to about the 8th or 



