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the second, fourth, and sixth rows containing tubercles of a 

 larger size than the others, a wide space on each side of suture 

 smooth and nitid. The tubercles at the sides bearing short 

 inconspicuous setae. Sternum nearly smooth, abdomen with 

 sparse scattered punctures. Legs very long, smooth and nitid, 

 femora unarmed, tibiae not dilated at apex, apical spines 

 very short, tarsi (and tibiae very narrowly) clothed with red 

 tomentum, anterior and middle tarsi enlarged : basal-joint 

 of posterior tarsi not as long as the rest combined. Dimen- 

 sions — 17 x 7*5 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns. 



A single specimen, male, was shaken by Mr. Lea from a 

 bush. It is one of the most remarkable and interesting Tene- 

 brionids I have seen. While placing it tentatively amongst 

 the Meracanthince, where it apparently comes nearest to 

 Lacordaire's position for Psorodes or A cant homer a (a genus 

 peculiar to South Africa). My knowledge of exotic insects is 

 too limited to allow me to state the position of the genus very 

 definitely. The two sides of the prothorax are slightly dif- 

 ferent in that the left side is more or less biangulate in the 

 middle, while on the right side it is merely undulate before 

 the middle subangulate widening. The long antennae with its 

 apical- joints not, or scarcely, enlarged at once differentiates 

 it from all Australian Tenebrionidae known to me except 

 Melaps, Melt/tra, and Strongylium . I do not know Axynaon , 

 of Blackburn, which is evidently a widely-different insect. 

 Type,' I. 2211, in the South Australian Museum. 



There was also a single mutilated specimen in the South 

 Australian Museum, without antennae and palpi, labelled : 

 "Cardwell," Fr. '"gen. nov., near Helopinus," in Blackburn's 

 handwriting. 



Mr. K. G. Blair writes: — "I don't think it is a 

 Meracanthine, which have the anterior femora strongly 

 thickened and toothed, with the clypeus in the form of a 

 quadrangular plate in front of the head. It seems near a 

 thing that has been puzzling me from Borneo, and has the 

 femora rather slender, etc. I place it tentatively in the 

 EuteliiTKz, with which it seems to agree in all essentials." 



[Not as regards the antennct, in which the Eutelides of 

 Xacordaire have "trois ou quatre derniers articles formant 

 une massue deprimee." — H. J. C] 



Amarygmus regius, n. sp. 

 Ovate; head, pronotum, underside, and legs black; an- 

 tennae piceous, elytra dark-green, with the suture and sides 

 (sometimes) purplish, tarsi flavo-setose. 



