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CUDNELLIA CANALICULATA, 11. Sp. 



d ■ Colour and clothing much as in preceding species. 



Head with crowded punctures of moderate size, becoming 

 longitudinal at base, and scarcely smaller on clypeus than 

 elsewhere; with a vague longitudinal impression. Eyes and 

 antennae much as on preceding species, except that the second 

 joint of the antennae is quite as long as (or a trifle longer than) 

 the third. Frothorax scarcely twice as wide as the median 

 length, sides strongly rounded, front angles much below 

 middle; with numerous rather small but well-defined punc- 

 tures, rather more crowded and larger on sides than on disc, 

 but almost absent from hind angles. Elytra subovate, about 

 once and one-fourth as long as wide, base truncate and no 

 wider than ba-se of prot borax ; with numerous punctures of 

 moderate size, becoming larger and somewhat crowded behind 

 shoulders and smaller and seriate in arrangement posteriorly. 

 Flanks of prosternum with scattered punctures and wrinkles. 

 Abdomen with a circular apical fovea. Femora stout, eden- 

 tate; tibiae strongly but almost evenly dilated to apex, with 

 acute costae, two of which, on the upper-surface of each of the 

 four hind ones, enclose a channel that at its apex becomes 

 excavated for the reception of the base of the tarsi ; basal joint 

 of front tarsi inflated. Length, 3 J mm. 



9 ■ Differs in having the abdomen more convex and non- 

 foveate, tibiae thinner, and in the tarsi. 



Hah. — Western Australia (Macleay Museum and Black- 

 burn's collection). Type, I. 3417. 



An apterous species (as are probably all species of the 

 genus), at first glance much like the preceding one, but readily 

 distinguished therefrom by the tibiae and elytra, the latter of 

 which also embrace the abdomen to a much less extent. Of 

 the two specimens before me, the female (belonging to the 

 Macleay Museum) agrees perfectly in colour with the descrip- 

 tion of that of the preceding species, but the type has most 

 of the apical half of the antennae, and parts of the legs, infus- 

 cated. The elytral striae are not deep on the apical slope, but 

 are very distinct there on account of the punctures being 

 confined to them. 



CUDNELLIA INSULARIS, n. Sp. 



c? . Black with a coppery gloss, becoming slightly greenish 

 on abdomen ; appendages of a more or less dingy-flavous or 

 testaceous, but antennae with apical half lightly infuscated, 

 base of tibiae and of femora, and middle of labrum also infus- 

 cated. Under-surface and legs sparsely pubescent. 



