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F. Hoivitti has yet been recorded, there must remain some doubt 

 as to the amount of affinity amongst them. 



Adotela australis, SI. (which I now know to have tlie male 

 with non-securiform palpi, and non-spongiose anterior tarsi) ; 

 Adotela atronitens, SL (which is too closely allied to Parroa 

 aiistrali/i, SL, to be disas.sociated from it); and Parroa Icevigata, 

 SI. (n. sp., vide post), form a group distinguished from the P. 

 Hoioitti group by their emarginate labrum, lighter and less 

 flattened femora, not channelled below for their whole length; 

 narrower posterior tarsi, with apical joint narrowed to base; short 

 very obtuse posterior trochanters ; bordered basal margin of 

 prothoi'ax, cfcc. Parroa apicalin, SI. (n. sp., vide post) may 

 possibly be an Adotela ; in any case it has but little affinity to 

 either of the groups mentioned above. Thi'ee other species have 

 been referred to the genus Parroa by De Castelnau, viz., P. 

 carbonaria, Casteln.; P. violacea, Casteln.; and P. bicolor, 

 Casteln. These are only known to me by too short descriptions, 

 but I should think /•'. carbonaria was rightly placed in Parroa, 

 while P. violacea and 7'. bicolor may likely prove species of 

 Adotela when the male is reported. Three species of Adotela, 

 viz., A. striolata, Putz.; A. iii(/errima, MacL, and A. frenchi, SL, 

 have been described without any notice of the male. I should 

 think it quite likely that they will all prove to have the male 

 characters those of Parroa rather than of Adoleta, but they must 

 remain in the latter genus till the male is recorded. 



1 7 i: ; Putzeys, 



Putzeys, Ann. 



]'oo. Jjinn. Soc, 



iiff. Head 



Parroa grandis, Ca^-HiiKm. 



Trans. Roy. Soc, Victoria, LSGS, \"II1., ]). 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1868, p. 350; Adotela, grandis 

 Mus. Civ,, Genov., 1873, IV., p. 337; Sloane, P)- 

 N.S.W., 1890 (2), v., p. 237. 



Female. — Form broad, convex, robust. Black, 

 broad, short (6 x 6-5 nmi.), smootli, excepting a slightlj' rugulose 

 sliallow impres.sion on each side between the eyes ; clypeal suture 

 distinctly impressed, curved; clypeus truncate, declivous in front, 

 a .small puncture on eacli side very near the edge ; eyes round, 

 convex, not prominent or inclosed behind. Mandibles sliort, 

 sti'ong. Labrum short, witiiout median sulcus ; anterior angles 

 (luite rounded off; middle of anterior margin truncate. Antenme 

 short, thick, subfiliform ; the joints \-ery little flattened, second 

 shortest — shorter than the fourth — last oval, pointed at apex. 

 Prothorax broader than long (8-5 x lO'O mm.), widest about half- 

 way between the marginal punctures, lightly and shortly narrowed 

 behind, convex (the disc a little depressed), not declivous behind, 

 longitudinally rugulose near anterior and basal margins (the 

 ruga"" of tlic basal pai-t stronger and more ii'i'egular) ; anterior 



