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segment of abdomen as long as three following combined,, 

 second also as long as three following combined. Legs moder- 

 ately long ; hind femora much longer than the others, strongly 

 and acutely dentate, teeth of the other femora acute but 

 smaller. Length, 5-5-i- mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (Macleay Museum). 

 The clothing of the under-surface and legs is denser and 

 paler than elsewhere, but the legs have some dark spots or 

 blotches : the prothorax has a faint median stripe and still 

 fainter lateral ones. On the elytra there are two fairly 

 distinct fasciae of pale scales ; one before and one behind the 

 middle, and not quite extending to the sides ; from the sides 

 the fasciae are seen to cover the surface of two transverse 

 de]3ressions : of which, however; the postmedian one is rather 

 feeble. 



Phaun^eus, n. g. 

 Head small. Eyes not very large ; separated almost the 

 width of rostrum at base ; facets of moderate size. Rostrum 

 very long, thin, and curved ; scrobes lateral. Antennae thin : 

 scape not extending back to eye ; funicle seven- jointed, two' 

 basal joints moderately long. Prothorax rather narrow at 

 apex, increasing in width to base, which is almost evenly 

 rounded : ocular lobes almost rectangular. Scutellum small. 

 Elytra cordate, shoulders strongly rounded. Prosternum 

 se mi-circular ly emarginate in front, but without a pectoral 

 canal. Metasternum slightly longer than following segment ; 

 episterna narrow, but each with an acute triangular internal 

 extension in front. Abdomen with first segment rather 

 large, second in middle very little longer than third or fourth, 

 but at sides almost as long as the two combined. Legs long ; 

 front coxae touching, middle lightly separated : femora eden- 

 tate ; four front tibiae strongly curved ; tarsi wide, third joint 

 deeply bilobed, fourth rather short and stout, claws simple 

 and widely diverging. 



Apparently belongs to a group of aberrant genera referred 

 by Pascoe to the Zygopides, but which eventually will have 

 to be regarded as forming a distinct subfamily. In Pascoe's 

 table of the Zygopides it would be placed with Nauphceus, as 

 the intercoxal process, although fairly wide, is much narrower 

 than in Arachnopvs, but the two genera can have little in 

 common, as the shape, antennae, and rostrum are all different, 

 and there is no pectoral canal. I know of no closely-allied 

 described genus, although there are several unnamed ones 

 before me. In shape the body is much like Idotasia, but 

 that genus has a pectoral canal. 



Pascoe's fig. 8 (Thyestetha nitida) on pi. xvi of Ann. 

 and Mag., Nat. Hist., 1871 (vol. vii., ser. iv.), will give a 



