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and rather strongly serrated, eleventh distinctly longer. 

 Vrothorax with sides rather strongly rounded in front, with 

 a shining median carina on basal third ; with small and rather 

 ■dense punctures, becoming denser on sides. Elytra slightly 

 diminishing in width from near base ; with rather dense 

 asperate punctures about base, much smaller and sparser 

 elsewhere; striation well defined about suture and base, finer 

 or wanting elsewhere. Length, 4 mm. 



II ab. — New South Wales: Sydney (W. du Boulay). 

 Type (unique), I. 5735. 



The hind coxae are much as in the preceding species, but 

 the tarsi are missing; the species differs from the description 

 of depress it* in being smaller (it is considerably smaller than 

 any previously described species of the genus) and antennae 

 not filiform but quite strongly serrated ; the prothoracic punc- 

 tures are also considerably finer than on a species I have, 

 with some slight doubts, identified as depresses. The meta- 

 sternal sulci are very short, oblique, and close to the leg, 

 and to see them clearly the femora must be forced aside ; each 

 appears as the apex of a much wider and somewhat deeper 

 depression on the flank. 



Fornax. 



This genus is the most abundant in species of all the 

 Eucnemidae, and the species at first glance are mostly 

 strikingly alike in general appearance, but they may usually 

 be readily distinguished by characters of the head and 

 antennae. In Blackburn's table the genus is distinguished 

 by "Basal joint of hind tarsi as long as all the other joints 

 together" ; this is true of most of the species before me, but 

 on several of them the basal joint is either slightly or quite 

 conspicuously shorter than the rest combined ; these, however, 

 may be distinguished from Discaptofhora.r by the considerably 

 narrower latero-prosternal grooves. 



Fornax parvulus, Bon v. 

 There are five specimens of Fornax before me that differ 

 from all the others in having the fourth and fifth joints of 

 antennae subequal in length and exceptionally short, their 

 combined length being equal or subequal to that of the sixth. 

 I cannot satisfy myself, however, that they belong to but 

 one species, although possibly they all belong to parvulus. 

 The smallest specimen (5 h mm., similar in length to the type) 

 is from Tasmania, and has the tip of the abdomen almost 

 pointed (certainly not "late rotundato" ), the fourth and 

 fifth joints of antennae are strongly transverse, and their 

 combined length is slightly less than that of the sixth, and 

 the sixth to ninth joints are slight!}' dilated. A specimen 



