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into a strong mucro, the apex between being deeply 

 emarginate ; sculpture similar to that of the male, but the 

 granules practically obsolete, only traceable with difficulty ; 

 first row of tubercles eight in number, more elongate but not 

 more prominent, and more isolated than in the male ; second 

 row nine in number, the last four subacute ; third row seven in 

 number. Ventral segments convex, the basal segment also 

 convex. Dim. — Male, 19 x 6'5 mm. ; female, 20 x 8 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mount Kosciusko (H. J. 

 Carter); Victoria: Mount Baldy (H. J. Carter), Victorian 

 Alps (T. Blackburn). Type in author's collection. 



A remarkably distinct species, not close to any I am 

 acquainted with. The types are completely destitute of 

 clothing, but most of the Victorian specimens- are moderately 

 densely clothed. The Mount Baldy specimens differ somewhat 

 in being smaller, and in having the supra-ocular crests project- 

 ing slightly more prominently from the head ; in one specimen 

 also there is distinct evidence of a division of the crest into 

 two component parts. 



ACANTHOLOPHUS SCAPHIEOSTRIS, U. Sp. 



S . Elongate, subparallel. Black ; rather sparsely 

 clothed above with minute, dingy-brown subpubescence ; on 

 the sides of the prothorax, sternal, and ventral segments, with 

 larger, sparse, subsetose clothing ; legs moderately densely 

 clothed with greyish, femora with a lighter preapical ring. 



Uostrum moderately long ; the upper-surface rather deeply 

 concave, the depressed area slightly narrowed and rounded off 

 at base ; the external margins straight, not greatly raised, 

 subrectangulate, but not produced at apex, not depressed at 

 base. Head separated from rostrum by a transverse sulcus 

 above, not extending to the sides, no intercristal ridge present ; 

 convex, hardly, if at all, depressed in front, with two small 

 granules on the forehead ; supra-orbital crests rather short, set 

 upright to plane of head, the upper margin slightly bidentate, 

 the anterior dentation very feeble. Scrobes running back 

 almost to eye, with an oblique upward extension towards- base 

 of crest. Prothorax (4 x 5 mm.) very slightly produced above; 

 without ocular lobes ; subapical constriction deep, parallel to 

 and moderately close to apical margin : subbasal impression 

 hardly traceable ; disc gently transversely convex, set with 

 small, discrete granules ; median area not depressed, median 

 tubercles small, granuliform, a large one present on each side 

 of middle line, in front of the subapical impression, tubercles 

 about six in number on each side, irregularly placed ; lateral 

 margins with a strongly produced, outwardly projecting 



