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shoulders, aud forming a feeble siibapical spot on each ely- 

 tron. All the white sntural clothing towards the apex is 

 mixed with some yellowish setae. The rostrum of the female 

 on measurement proves to be the exact length of the body, 

 but to the eye it seems considerably longer. 



SUBFAMILY TYCHIIDES. 



Agestra, Pasc. 



This genus was stated by Pascoe to be nearer Doryto- 

 m us C^') than to any other. In his table of the Erirhinides he 

 placed it in the ''Erirhinides vrais" between Nedyleda and 

 Eniopeu. Two species were referred by him to the genus — 

 I'uhigiuea and suturalis, both from Western Australia. Sub- 

 sequently Blackburn referred a South Australian species, 

 ■punctulata, to the genus. 



Thinking it possible that the genus belonged to the 

 Tychiides, I wrote to the British Museum for information 

 as to the types, and Mr. C. J. Gahan wrote me that "the 

 claws are what I should call bifid, 'fendus' of Lacordaire. In 

 A. ruhiginea tlie inner division is shorter than the outer. In 

 A . suturalis it is almost as long as the outer. I cannot be 

 quite sure that all the claws are of this character, as the speci- 

 mens are carded, and most of the claws covered with gum." 

 Mr. Gahan also sent diagrams of the claws by which it would 

 appear that the claw-joint in suturalis is terminated by four 

 almost equal claws, and in ruhiginea by somewhat similar 

 claws, but the inner ones rather shorter. It is evident, there- 

 fore, that Agestra belongs to the Tychiides, and not to the 

 Erirhinides. It is also evident by Blackburn's notes (in Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, New South AVales, 1890, p. 584) that punctulata 

 really belongs to the Erirhinides, and not to Agestra, and 

 that he was misled by Pascoe's faulty location of the genus. 



Elleschodes basipennis, n. sp. 



Head, rostrum, and scut-ellum black ; under surface more 

 or less infuscate or black : appendages (the femora sometimes 

 stained in parts with black) reddish. Rather densely clothed 

 with whitish jDubescence, somewhat paler and sparser on the 

 under than on the upper surface. 



Rostriim thin, distinctly longer than prothorax, lightly 

 curved ; behind antennae with a feeble median carina and 

 remnants of others ; in front of antennas with punctures only, 

 and feebly diminishing in width to apex. Antennse thin, in- 

 serted nearer apex than base of rostrum. Frothorax about 



(V) A genu.s not recorded from Australia, and unknown to me. 



