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tibiae less curved than usual in the genus, strongly fringed on 

 apical half, mid-tibiae slightly curved, post-tibiae straight. 

 Dimensions — 18-19 x 6-7 mm. 



Nab. — New South Wales: Craven (Gloucester district) 

 (T. G. Sloane). 



Two male specimens, taken by Mr. Sloane, July, 1914 r 

 under Eucalyptus bark, form an undoubted addition to this 

 genus. While nearest P. angulata, Erichs., in form and 

 angulated sides of prothorax, it is strikingly differentiated 

 from all Promethes having a fringed mentum in the male by 

 its combination of opaque surface, strongly punctate head, 

 prothorax, and abdomen, parallel and sulcate elytra with 

 large seriate punctures, prothorax strongly widened in front, 

 the anterior angles lobate. It is strange that this species has 

 so far been unnoticed, considering the very large number of 

 specimens lately examined by the author. It is probable, 

 therefore, that this species has a limited range in an area so 

 far little explored by the entomologist. Type in author's 

 collection. 



Dystalica, Pasc. 



Three species have been described: D. komogena, Pasc./ 

 D. subpubescens, Bates, D. parallela, Lea; and probably are 

 all the same species. I have eight specimens before me, vary- 

 ing in size, and to some small extent in sculpture, but most of 

 all in the amount of crenulation of the sides of the prothorax 

 (a difference frequently found in the same species in Seiro- 

 tranaj. My specimens are from the following localities: — 1, 

 Swan River (this has been compared with the type of D. 

 homogena, Pasc); 1, Carnarvon, Western Australia; 1, 

 Kookynie, Western Australia; 2, Murchison district, Western 

 Australia; 1, Shark Bay, Western Australia; 1, Cue, Western 

 Australia ; 1 from the mallee district, North-west Victoria. 

 The last of these rather more corresponds with the description 

 of D. subpubescens, Bates, except in having a faint crenulation 

 to the thoracic border. Bates contradicts Pascoe's statement 

 as to the last joint of the antennae not being longer than the 

 tenth in both D. homogena and D. subpubescens.^ As this 

 seems to be the chief distinction that Lea mentions in his 

 description of D. parallela, I cannot but conclude that D. 

 parallela, Lea = Z). homogena, Pasc, leaving D. subpubescens, 

 Bates, for the present under suspicion. Bates' locality of New 

 South Wales seems also open to doubt. I have also examined 

 the specimens (determined by Mr. Lea, and probably co-types) 

 in the Australian and Macleay Museums, labelled "D. faral- 

 lela, Lea." 



(5) Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1873, p. 370. 

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