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the shoulders, compared to the prothorax, epaulettes crowned 

 with stiff reddish setae (not attached to a membrane), and by 

 the greatly thickened front and middle tibiae. In my table 

 it would be associated with ectatommae, which is a much 

 smaller species, with very different legs. The elytra are 

 strongly striated throughout, except at the bottom of the 

 subbasal depression, the striae are mostly longitudinal, but 

 many are oblique or sinuous, and a few near the base 

 are transverse ; on the outer walls they are not all directed 

 towards a central point. 



Chlamydopsis carinicollis, n. sp. 



Black, antennae and legs castaneous. 



Head immersed in prothorax when at rest ; face with 

 shallow reticulate punctures, and with two short longitudinal 

 carinae, each ending in a small subconical tubercle. Antennae 

 rather short : scape curved, strongly thickened, with punc- 

 tures as on face ; funicle short, apparently six- jointed ; club 

 long .and subcylindrical. Prothorax strongly transverse, 

 front margin lightly elevated and bilobed behind head, thence 

 to sides strongly elevated and curved, sides behind where the 

 margins join almost parallel, a narrow carina from apex to 

 middle, a small tubercle on each side of and in line with its 

 end, between each tubercle and the basal angles a short trans- 

 verse carina, two small medio-basal tubercles ; with dense, 

 reticulate punctures. Elytra not much wider than prothorax, 

 slightly wider than long ; epaulettes moderately elevated ; with 

 a fairly large subbasal depression, extending almost to but 

 not opening on to outer walls, and with a golden membrane 

 overhanging it from the inner end of each epaulette, a narrow 

 transverse carina on each at the apical third, extending to 

 the outer wall but not to the suture ; punctures, almost 

 throughout, much as on pronotum. Middle parts of m eta- 

 sternum and of abdomen shining and with rather small but 

 distinct punctures, rest of under-surface reticulate and sub- 

 opaque. Propygidium with a short longitudiial carina, and 

 with a transverse one at its junction with pygidium. Femora 

 rather long and thin ; tibiae strongly compressed, front ones 

 with a strong tooth in middle, thence rapidly diminishing to 

 each end, middle ones somewhat similar but the tooth less 

 projecting, hind ones with greatest width slightly beyond the 

 middle, the space between it and base quite straight (on the 

 other tibiae it is distinctly curved), tarsal grooves on oblique 

 outer edge. Length, 2 mm. 



Rah. — Victoria: Beaconsfield, from a nest of- Aphaeno- 

 gaster longiceps, in July (F. E. Wilson). Type (unique), 

 I. 10677. ' 



