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able to distinguish them, and quite possibly they are air 

 females. In Pascoe's table of the Zy go fides the species would 

 be placed in Me cop us, but the unarmed breast (in several 

 species of Mecopus, however, the breast is unarmed in both 

 sexes) and strongly unidentate hind femora are aberrant 

 characters. Probably had it been before Pascoe he would 

 have referred it to a new genus, or perhaps to Chirozetes 

 (which, however, has the breast armed in the male). From 

 the species of Mecopus previously recorded from Australia it 

 may be distinguished by its unarmed breast and unidentate 

 hind femora. In structure it closely resembles a species of 

 Agametis in my collection, but the pectoral canal is absent. 



On the prothorax there is a very conspicuous median 

 stripe (strongly narrowed at its middle) of pale scales bounded 

 by dark ones; on the sides the clothing is mixed. The scutel- 

 lum has also very dense pale scales. On the elytra the cloth- 

 ing to the naked eye appears to be greyish, with two dark 

 oblique stripes on each side, one commencing near the shoulder 

 and reaching the suture about the middle, the other sub- 

 apical. On the under-surface the clothing is mostly pale, but 

 with dark spots on the sides of the sterna and on the inter- 

 coxal process of abdomen. The apical half of the hind tibise 

 has conspicuous white clothing. The elytral granules are less 

 noticeable on the small than on the large specimens. 



Temialma, n. g. 



Head rather small. Eyes rather large, round, frontal, 

 almost touching, finely faceted. Rostrum about the lengtt 

 of prothorax, rather thin, moderately curved ; scrobes in- 

 visible from above, not extending to eyes. Antennae rather 

 thin ; scape inserted about middle of rostrum, distinctly 

 shorter than funicle ; funicle seven-jointed, first two joints 

 moderately long, the second longer than first ; club elliptic, 

 subsolid. Prothorar transverse, base strongly bisinuate, apex 

 subtubular, ocular lobes very obtuse. ScuteUum small. 

 Elytra short, base closely applied to prothorax, shoulders 

 rounded. Prosternuw with a rather deep pectoral canal, 

 bounded behind by narrow vertical walls. Mesosternum with 

 large side pieces, the outer one of which appears like a 

 wedge between the prothorax and elytra. Metasternum 

 strongly convex, moderately long, episterna wide. Abdomen 

 large, obliquely ascending to apex, two basal segments large, 

 especially the first, third and fourth short. Legs not very 

 long ; femora stout, especially the front pair, and very strongly 

 triangularly dentate ; tibiae curved and compressed ; tarsi: 

 rather narrow. Body rhomboidal. 



