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irregular behind shoulders than elsewhere, with much smaller 

 ones scattered about ; reflexed margins almost as wide as on 

 prothorax. Proster?iufN with each episternum straight and 

 oblique in front, strongly produced to each side, and with 

 conspicuous sutures; each epimeron strongly striated close to 

 the coxa; flanks with scattered shallow and small punctures. 

 Fifth segment of abdomen with a small but deep median 

 fovea. Legs stout; tibiae dilated at apex, upper-surface 

 conspicuously grooved throughout. Length, 10-12 mm. 



9 . Differs in the clypeus being less conspicuously 

 notched, labrum shorter, antennae shorter and much thinner, 

 fifth segment of abdomen with a feeble depression only and 

 basal joint of four front tarsi smaller. 



Hah. — Lord Howe Island (Macleay Museum and J. 

 Waterhouse). Type, I. 3504. 



At first appears to be a very large Eh?/parida, but each 

 tibia has a conspicuous groove extending from the base to 

 the apex, bounded by acutely raised costae and widely open 

 at the apex ; the outer apex is subtriangularly dilated, so 

 that the space before same is incurved, but as there is no 

 projection between the curve and the base the tibiae cannot 

 be regarded as notched "near the outer apex (such as they 

 are represented to be in the figure of Eurydemiis insignis — 

 stated to be a synonym of E. (Rhyparida) grandis). Each 

 claw has a wide basal appendix rectangular at its outer apex. 

 One male has the head and prothorax almost black. The 

 antennae of the type have the first and eleventh joints red- 

 dish, the second black, and the others with the upper portion 

 black and the lower red, the two colours being sharply limited, 

 but another male and two females have much less conspicu- 

 ously variegated antennae. 



This and the following species are referred with some 

 doubt to the genus. According to Chapuis' and Lefevre's 

 tables they would belong to the Iphimeitae, but the sections 

 of the subfamily, according to that table, so largely depend 

 on the utterly untrustworthy character of the prothoracic 

 episterna that I cannot regard the table as other than mis- 

 leading. According to it Terilhis, Ehyparida, Eiirydemus, 

 and CoIasjJoides all belong to different sections, but they are 

 really all closely allied. 



COLASPOIDES NORFOLCENSIS, U. Sp. 



(S . Reddish-castaneous ; parts of head, of prothorax, 

 and of under-surface more or less deeply infuscated. 



Head with small punctures, larger (but not very large) 

 between eyes than elsewhere ; with a small impunctate space 

 near each antenna, with a conspicuous median line from base 



