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HISTERLDyE. 



Chlamydopsis atra, n. sp. 



Black, tarsi and antennae reddish, tibiae usually more or 

 less diluted with red. A few short setae scattered about at 

 apex of elytra, and apex and sides of prothorax, a small 

 fascicle of somewhat longer setae on each epaulette. 



Read almost vertical; with shallow net-like punctures. 

 Antennae with basal- joint wide, flat, and curved, club curved 

 and subcylindrical, its tip visible from above when at rest. 

 Prothorax strongly transverse, with punctures as on head, 

 both above and below; disc regularly raised to middle from 

 sides, front margin unevenly elevated, sides oblique and feebly 

 increasing in width to base. Elytra subquadrate; with a 

 wide transverse depression near base, the depression continued 

 to sides, but towards each side concealed by a raised 

 epaulette, the latter with an oblique impression cutting it 

 off from the base, behind each epaulette a raised process; 

 each side of scutellar region with a flattened slightly-elevated 

 space within the depression, behind the elevated spaces smooth 

 and impunctate, then with feeble striae turning into net-like 

 punctures, rest of upper-surface with similar punctures, a 

 wide depression on each side about apex; epipleurae with striae, 

 all converging to the lateral openings of the basal impression. 

 Pygidium and propygidium large, conjointly convex, and with 

 net-like but very shallow punctures. Prostemum with net- 

 like punctures; flattened along middle. Metasternum highly 

 polished, sides with irregular punctures, with a narrow median 

 line. Abdomen highly polished, the sides with irregular 

 punctures. Legs moderately long; tibiae conspicuously 

 flanged, flange of front tibiae increasing in width from apex 

 to basal fourth, and then abruptly terminated, of middle pair 

 much the same, but rather less abruptly terminated, and 

 of hind pair still less abruptly terminated. Length, 2 mm. 



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

 Type, I. 1300. 



In size and colour like ectatommce, but elytral depression 

 near base without conspicuous transverse striae, shoulders, 

 apex of prothorax, and abdomen, etc., different. From stria- 

 tella, to which in some respects it is closer, it differs in the 

 much more conspicuously net-like punctures. Reticulata is 

 also allied, but is a paler species, with very different 

 humeral clothing. 



A number of specimens were taken in January by means 

 of the sweep net, used on low herbage, ferns, etc., late in the 

 afternoon, and probably other species could be obtained in 

 the same way as they came out to mate. There was a 



