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short. Abdomen wide at base, strongly narrowed posteriorly, 

 two basal segments large. Legs short and stout; front coxae 

 touching, middle lightly, hind ones widely, separated, femora 

 edentate ; tibiae obtusely spurred at apex, tip fringed with 

 short setae; tarsi padded on lower-surface, third joint deeply 

 bilobed but not much wider than second, claws feebly 

 separated. Apterous. 



A highly remarkable genus of doubtful position ; but on 

 account o£ the inter-ocular crests and seventh joint of funicle 

 subadnate to club may be placed near Ophryota. The head 

 bears a certain resemblance to some genera of the E Horn ides, 

 but the funicle is seven-jointed/ 47 ^ and the mouth-parts and 

 tarsi are different. From the Leptopsides, to which it pos- 

 sibly should have been referred, the almost complete absence 

 of ocular lobes may perhaps be distinctive, the sides of the 

 prothorax are very faintly sinuous, but I do not think that 

 ocular lobes could fairly be regarded as being present. The 

 subapproximate claws would appear to denote - an approach 

 to Polyphrades, but no species of that genus has a crested 

 head. Messrs. Feuerheerdt Bros, and F. Seeker have taken 

 a fair number of specimens under fallen eucalyptus leaves. 



Platypterocis paradoxus, n. sp. 



Black. Densely clothed with light-brown scales, more or 

 less conspicuously variegated with whitish and sooty patches. 



Head with derm entirely concealed ; with a strong conical 

 tubercle close to each eye. Rostrum short, dilated, and 

 deepened to near apex, narrowly impressed along middle, 

 obtusely transversely crested between antennae, thence ver- 

 tical to mandibles. Scape stout, increasing in width to apex, 

 almost as long as funicle. Prothorax moderately transverse, 

 sides strongly rounded, and widest slightly nearer apex than 

 base ; surface with partially concealed granules and vermicu- 

 late elevations. Elytra conjointly arcuate (except for slight 

 interruptions by the interstices) at base, sides rather strongly 

 rounded to beyond the middle, and then arcuate to apex; 

 with irregular rows of partially concealed punctures; inter- 

 stices uneven, and in places with obtuse more or less concealed 

 granules. 



Hah. — South Australia: Lucindale (Feuerheerdt Bros. 

 and F. Seeker). Type, I. 3362. 



The markings are not exactly alike on any two specimens 

 in the Museum, but on the elytra there are rather large 

 and more or less round spots of whitish scales (usually with 



(47) The funicle might almost, however, be regarded as six- 

 jointed, as the seventh is very indistinctly separated from the club. 



