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haud superanti ; antennis 9-articulatis ; coxis posticis quaui - 

 inetasternuin multo brevioribus ; unguiculis appendiculatis, 

 parte basali quara apicalis vix longiori. Long., 4| 1.; lat., 



An extremely distinct species notable for the apical piece of 

 its claws being scarcely shorter than the basal piece, and the 

 peculiar sculpture of its elytra, each of which bears about four 

 longitudinally convex spaces extending from near the base to 

 near the apex. On these convex portions the puncturation of 

 the general surface is partially interrupted resulting in the 

 elytra having a striate appearance which is most unusual in the 

 genus. The punctures of the elytra are for the most part coarse, 

 but with a confused and irregular intermingling of considerably 

 less coarse punctures. In my tabulation of the section of 

 Beteronyx, to which this species belongs (P.L.S., N.S.W., 1891, 

 pp. 488-9) it falls beside H. Froggatti, Macl., from which it 

 differs inter alia by the uniformly close rugulosity of its head. 



S.A.; taken by Herr Koch near Lyndhurst. 



anacheirotus (gen. nov. Sericoidarum). 



Mas ? Mentum quam latius longius, antice parum emarginatum ; 

 palpi labiales breves, articulo ultimo obconico ; palpi 

 maxillares modici, articulo ultimo cylindrico ad apicem 

 truncato, quam penultimus multo longiori ; labrum angustum 

 valde transversum, late leviter arcuatum, vix prominulum, 

 a clypei parte antica (hac fere ut Uaplopsis subtus retrorsum 

 obliquum) bene discreta : oculi magni sat distincte granulati, 

 antice a cantho profunde incisi ; antennae (speciei typicae) 

 9-articulatae, clava 3-articulata articulis prsecedentibus 4 con- 

 junctis longitudine sat gequali ; clypeus supra antice valde 

 reflexus et late emarginatus(nonnihil utHaplopsis lineoligerce, 

 Blanch., mas) ; prothorax transversus ; elytra elongata nullo 

 modo striata (stria subsuturali excepta) ; tibiae anticae extus 

 obtuse leviter tridentatae, posticis modice latis (fere ut 

 Uaplopsis lineoligercd, Blanch.) sed pone medium fortiter 

 transversim carinatis ; tarsi breves robusti (quam tibiae 

 parum longiores) ; unguiculi valde bifidi ; sterna sat glabra ; 

 coxae postica? quam metasternum parum breviores. 



The small Lamellicom for which I propose this new generic 

 name is extremely difficult to place, as it combines the characters 

 of very widely different genera. Its short stout tarsi are like 

 those of the genus that I take to be Ocnodus (except in not being 

 clothed beneath with tufts of long hair) from which it differs 

 strongly in most other characters. Its clypeus and mouth organs 

 suggest Uaplopsis, — but there the resemblance ends. Its claws 

 are those of a Heteronyx but its mouth organs and clypeus 



