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also is more or less reddish. In all structural details, how- 

 ever, they agree with normal females. 



SUBFAMILY GONIPTERIDES. 



OXYOPS MINUSCULA, n. Sp. 



Castaneous. With dense clothing, varying from white 

 to black, and from stout setae to scales. 



Head with normally quite -concealed punctures; inter- 

 ocular fovea rather large and partially concealed. Rostrum 

 (excluding muzzle) scarcely longer than greatest width ; 

 apical portion wide, with small punctures becoming larger 

 posteriorly; basal portion with sculpture entirely concealed, 

 but apparently without a carina. Two basal joints of 

 funicle subequal in length. Prothorax evenly convex, with 

 evenly-rounded sides : with dense but more or less concealed 

 punctures ; median carina very feeble. Elytra elongate- 

 cordate, sides parallel from shoulders to beyond the middle; 

 with rows of large but partially-concealed punctures. Inter- 

 coxal process of meso sternum strongly produced but obtuse. 

 Tibice rather short, and strongly, but not clearly, denticulate. 

 Length, 4|-5 mm. 



Hah. — North- West Australia: Murchison (C French); 

 Victoria: Birchip (J. C. Goudie). 



Of very small size, but the mesosternum and eyes are 

 quite as in normal species of Oxyops. The three specimens 

 before me vary from rather bright to dark castaneous. The 

 clothing is distinctly variegated, but consists mostly of stout 

 setae of a pale stramineous. On the prothorax three feeble 

 pale lines can be traced; the scutellar clothing is snowy. On 

 the elytra there is a feeble oblique stripe before the middle, 

 the stripe composed mostly of snowy scales, and remnants of 

 another stripe can be traced beyond the middle; the clothing 

 between being brown or black; but small patches of dark 

 clothing can be seen elsewhere on the elytra. Judging by 

 one of the specimens fresh ones are covered with a brownish 

 meal. 



In size, and to a certain extent in appearance, like 

 simplex, but the white fascia much less distinct, and of 

 different shape, the eyes less convex but of normal appear- 

 ance for Oxyops, and the mesosternum also normal. It is 

 apparently allied to arctatus, but has the elytral clothing 

 variegated. 



SUBFAMILY CLEONIDES. 



LlXUS IMPONDEROSUS, n. sp. 



Black, claws red, funicle obscurely diluted with red. 

 Upper-surface sparsely clothed with short white pubescence 



