KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 62. N:0 3. 127 



tibia? posticae extus 7 — 9, intus 10 — 11 spinosse; cerci J 1 compressi, sensim angustati, 

 apice deorsum curvi, abdomine multo breviores. 



Fusco-testaceus nigro-variegatus vel latericius; vitta lata postocularis nigra 

 testaceo-variegata, per latera superiora pronoti perducta, in. o leviter indicata, in ? 

 fere obliterata; lobus posticus pronoti lineis longitudinalibus compluribus ; area inter- 

 nomedia et area inferointerna, margine excepto, f usco-rubra? ; tibise posticae extus 

 testacese fusco-variegatse, intus violaceo-rubra?; spinse externa? pallide testacea? apice 

 nigro, interna? nigrse basi intus pallida3; tarsi violaceo-rubri articulo ultimo testaceo; 

 abdomen utrinque maculis magnis nigris; elytra opaca tota crebre et minute a?qua- 

 liter brunneo-conspersa, vel latericia minute et leviter fusco punctata ; ala3 hyalina? 

 nervis pra?sertim in campo humerali fuscis, basi nervis et nervulis ssepe glaucis. 



J 1 : Long. c. elytr. 38, corp. 31, pron. 6, elytr. 29, fem. post. 16, tib. post. 

 12,5 mm. 



? : Long. c. elytr. 48 — 49, corp. 41 — 43, pron. 7,4 — 7,5, elytr. 36 — 38, fem. post. 

 18 — 19, tib. post. 16 — 16,5 mm. 



Patria. Ctr. Australia: Hermannsburg (Hillier) c???, typ., Brit. Museum et 

 Mus. Stockholm. 



Gen. Euophistes Sjöst. 



Arkiv för Zoologi, Bd. 12, N:o 20, p. 17, 31 (1920). 



(cT): Fröns leviter rogosa vel glabra; costa f rontalis medio sulcata, sub ocello 

 constricta, marginibus os versus divergentibus, apice evanescentibus, inter antennas 

 non sulcata, planiuscula, punctis sparsis vel nullis, basin versus attenuata, basi in- 

 terdum angustissima; carina? laterales recta?, ima basi ad oculos excepta perfecte ex- 

 plicata?; fröns recta, reclinata; fastigium leviter modo productum; fastigium ab oculis 

 vix seque longum ac basi latum, supra impressum, carinula nulla vel vix conspicua; 

 oculi globosi, late ovales; antennce filiformes, antrorsum sensim paulo graciliores, parte 

 basali leviter compressa; vertex glaber carinula nulla; margo anticus 'pronoti leviter 

 curvus; lobus anticus glabro-tuberculatus, antice interdum medio tuberculo majore, 

 carina vix indicata; lobus posticus paulo latior, a latere visus altior, apice leviter 

 recurvus, postice leviter productus, margine postico late rotundato vel leviter an- 

 gulariter compresso ; lobus posticus dense impresso-punctatus medio carinula humili ; 

 margo posticus laterum pronoti rectus cum margine infero angulum subobtusum 

 valde rotundatum formans ; dimidium anticum marginis inferioris ascendens, cum 

 margine antico angulum obtusum rotundatum formans; sulci pronoti tres, nigri, pri- 

 mus brevis, posticus post medium situs; tuberculum prosternale breve, crassum, apice 

 rotundato-truncatum; ehjtra abdomen superantia; femora postica subgracilia, postice 

 medio in spina parva terminata; costa? glabra?, costa superomedia et superoexterna 

 interdum levissime et remote serrata?; lobi geniculares subsequilongi, triangulares, 

 acuminati, tibia? postica? supra in margine externo spina apicali nulla, extus 8 — 9, 

 intus 8 — 10 spinosa?; lobi metasternales valde distantes. 



Genotypus: Euophistes corticeus Sjöst. 



