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bifid, I believe to be a female, must be placed next to Calloddes, although 

 in some respects it slightly resembles A. viridi-ceneus, ? . 

 Brit. Mus. 



Hab. N.E. Australia (Rockingham Bay) ; collected by E. D. 

 Atkinson, Esq. 



Calloodes, White, 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., XV, p. 38. 

 C. Atkinsonii, sp. nov. 



Viridis,nitidus,ovatus, sub-depressus; clypeo antice, thoracis laterihus, 

 elytrorumque marginibus testaceo micantihus ; pedibus cceruleo-viridihus, 

 nitidis. Long. 9—10 lin., lat. 5 lin. 



Above glossy, green. Head distinctly but not very thickly punc- 

 tured ; clypeus truncate in front with the angles rounded, the anterior 

 margin reflexed, shining with testaceous. Antennae glossy, brown. 



Thorax contracted in front, green, very sparingly and delicately 

 punctulate, the sides reflecting testaceous, the extreme margin thickened; 

 the hind margin of the thorax reflexed, except the central portion. 

 Elytra broadest immediately below the shoulders, narrowing towards 

 the apex, moderately thickly punctulate, except at the extreme margins 

 and the suture, which are smooth. The margins of the elytra thickened 

 except at the basal portion. The elytra are slightly dehiscent at the 

 extreme apex, which in each elytron is slightly produced. Pygidium 

 acuminate, rugosely punctured, and clothed with short white hair. 

 Under-side shining with aeneous and fuscous, more or less covered with 

 white pubescence, except on the sternum and central part of the 

 abdomen. Legs dark green, glossy ; the four posterior tibiae with a 

 few large punctures on the outside. 



Brit. Mus. 



Hab. N.E. Australia (Eockingham Bay) ; collected by E. D. 

 Atkinson, Esq., after whom I have named the species. 



British Museum, May IWi, 1868. 



ON SOME SPECIES OF TRICHOPTERYGIA NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST. 

 BY THE BEV. A. MATTHEWS, M.A. 



The season of 1867 proved that our indigenous Tricliojpterygia are 

 not yet thoroughly worked out ; and also proved, if proof had been re- 

 quired, the singular eccentricity of their distribution. In Sherwood 

 Forest I met with two species hitherto only known as inhabitants of 



