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antennae long, filiform, the apical-joints slightly widened, 3 

 longer than 4, 7-10 equal, 11 elongate-ovate. Prothorax wider 

 than long, apex and base nearly straight, base scarcely wider 

 than apex ; anterior angles rather squarely rounded, posterior 

 sharply rectangular ; sides slightly undulate, with a small 

 angula.te or dentate widening in the middle; basal border 

 raised, lateral and apical border subobsolete ; disc channelled 

 medially, rugose and closely pilose. Scutellum curvilinear 

 triangular. Elytra wider than prothorax at base, three and 

 a half times as long; shoulders squarely rounded, sides nearly 

 parallel till near apex ; lineate foveolate-punctate, with about 

 eight lines of oval foveas, forming reticulate intervals, the 

 two sutural rows of fovese larger and shallower, their intervals 

 less raised than the rest, the fovese smaller towards the sides, 

 the last three series containing approximate punctures, those 

 in the extreme row closest, all becoming obsolete at apex ; 

 prosternum rugose, the last segment of abdomen finely punc- 

 tate, fore coxse approximate and nearly touching the front 

 margin of prosternum, posterior intercoxal process narrowly 

 triangular, legs rather slender, posterior tarsi with basal- joint 

 nearly as long as the rest combined. Dimensions — 12-13 x 3'5- 

 4*5 mm. 



Rab. — New South Wales: Ourimbah (H. W. Cox); 

 Queensland: Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). 



The larger specimen happens to be the male, the other is, 

 I think, female, and these two are the only specimens I have 

 seen of a species evidently different to any of the described 

 Australian Strongylia. It is nearest to S. reticulatum, Makl., 

 in the elytral sculpture, in which species the alternate intervals 

 are costate, with the reticulation more or less cancellate, while 

 in fuscovestltum, the intervals do not form regular lines, but 

 are the raised borders of the irregularly-sized fovese; moreover, 

 in reticulatum the colour is a subnitid-black, and is without 

 any pilose clothing. Male — Type in the author's collection. 

 Female — Type, I. 2214, in the South Australian Museum. 



»S'. reticulatum, Makl. I have not seen this species identi- 

 fied in any of the museums ; but there seems to be little doubt 

 as to my correct determination of this name as applying to 

 an insect I have taken in the Blue Mountains under eucalyptus 

 bark, and one specimen under a stone in the Victorian Alps. 



S. macleayi, Pasc, determined from description for a speci- 

 men taken by Mr. H. W. Cox in the Gosford District. 



S. mastersi, Macl. A single specimen by Mr. A. M. Lea, 

 taken at Cairns, Queensland. 



Pseudostrongylium viridijoenne, Kraatz. I believe I have 

 correctly identified this as a species very common in North 

 Queensland, and taken in some numbers by Mr. H. Hacker. 



