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OXYOPS GEMELLA, PasC. 



A specimen from "Western Australia" (the type was- 

 from Champion Bay) sent as a cotype of gemella is very close- 

 to multidentata, but differs in the front tibiae being thicker, 

 straighter, and less conspicuously dentate. The original- 

 description is distinctly misleading (if the cotype agrees well 

 with the type), as the elytra were noted as having the third 

 interstice elevated throughout and as having "singulatim 

 medio nigro - plagiatis et postice macula alba distincta 

 notatis"; also no mention was made of a rather strong pro- 

 thoracic carina. On the cotype there is a semicircular 

 irregularly double row of large punctures or foveae, com- 

 mencing near the shoulder, curved round to near suture, and 

 then obliquely hindwards, terminating about summit of 

 apical slope; these punctures appear darker than the 

 adjacent parts owing to partial absence of clothing, but the 

 space there is certainly not black. The species also occurs 

 in South Australia and Victoria. 



Ethemaia alternata, Lea. 



Mr. Feuerheerdt has recently taken numerous specimens- 

 of this species. On some of them the elytral scales are mostly 

 slaty- white, but with patches varying to sooty; on many of 

 them there are small patches of ochreous scales at the base 

 of the head; some of them have a second tubercle on the 

 fifth interstice before the one crowning the apical slope. 



Lycosura breweri, Pasc. (formerly Pantoreites). 



L. inermis, Lea. 



A cotype of breweri sent for examination by Mr. Arrow- 

 does not even belong to the Gonipterides, but is a Lycosura r 

 and is the species I have named inermis. 



Opsittis atomaria, Pasc. 



Sediantha maritima, Lea. 



Mr. Arrow sent for examination a cotype of Opsittis 

 atomaria. The genus and species are the same as those I 

 subsequently named Sediantha maritima. The eyes were 

 correctly described by Pascoe as transverse, small and 

 approximate in front, but the figure (pi. vii., fig. 8) of the 

 side view of the head is utterly misleading. The genus is 

 quite close to Desiantha of the Erirhinides, but Pascoe 

 referred it to the Molytides, where I would never have- 

 thought of looking for it. 



