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dense punctures. Propygidium wide, hind edge almost 

 straight, the outer angles tuberculate. Pygidium rather 

 strongly transverse, apex obtusely notched. Front tibice with 

 five strong teeth, hind tibise with short spurs, the longer of 

 which is scarcely one-third the length of the following joint, 

 basal joint of each of the four hind tarsi twice the length 

 of the second. Length, 5 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cape York (W. .D. Dodd and H. 

 Elgner). Type, I. 2226, in South Australian Museum. 



There are only two females before me, but the species 

 may be readily distinguished from all others from Australia 

 by its large size, distinctive clothing, and by several details 

 of sculpture. The scales on the head and prothorax have a 

 mottled appearance; on the elytra they are also mottled, but 

 each has a distinct pale spot slightly before the middle. On 

 the propy- and pygidium, under-surface, and legs the scales- 

 are mostly white or stramineous. 



DOUBTFULLY OR WRONGLY RECORDED AS 

 AUSTRALIAN. 



PanglaphyHa duboulayi, Thorns. 



( ?) Schizo? -rhina ebenina, Butler. 



PI. xiii., fig. 182. 



This species was described by Thomson as from the 

 Solomon Islands and referred to JYeophonia. Kraatz, in 

 making it the type of a new genus, stated that it also occurred 

 in Northern Australia. 



In the late Rev. T. Blackburn's copy of Masters' Cata- 

 logue it is marked as a synonym of S. ebenina, but on what 

 authority is not given. 



There is a specimen in the National Museum, Mel- 

 bourne, labelled as P. duboulayi from Queensland and 

 from French's collection. It appears to be correctly 

 named, but the clypeus is mostly flavous with a streak 

 extending back almost to the base of the head (the 

 description says ' 'caput rufo-ochraceo-maculafcum"). The 

 prothorax has a narrow, irregular, flavous streak on each 

 side of the apical two-thirds, just within the margin, instead 

 of being entirely black. The side-pieces of the meso- and 

 metasternum are almost wholly flavous, and the hind coxae 

 are flavous at the sides. The abdomen and pygidium have 

 flavous markings as in the description, but in addition the 

 under-parts and femora are in places diluted with red. The 

 specimen has a conspicuous longitudinal impression on the 

 abdomen, and so is a male. But its front tibise are distinctly 

 bidentate (fig. 182), whereas Thomson says, "Tibiae anticae 

 mas. inermes, foem. tridentate." It measures 27 mm., but 



