collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
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tibiee elongate,, etc.; the jfirst- mentioned character 
separates it from Ctenoplectron, Gujohosis, Serropalpus, 
Dircsea, etc. It is possible that Orchesia elongata, 
MacL, from Queensland^ and some of the New Zealand 
species referred to Otenojplectron, may belong to this 
genus. 
Talayra orchesioides, n. sp. (Plate YI.j fig. 6, 
Pitchy- or reddish-brown, opaque, the head, oral organs, 
antennae, and legs obscure ferruginous or ferruginous ; the entire 
upper surface very densely, minutely punctate, and clothed with 
a fine sericeous brown pubescence. Antennse about half the length 
of the body, slender. Pro thorax transverse, strongly rounded 
at the sides anterioriy, subparallel behind, without trace of basal 
foveas or median line. Elytra about four and one-half times the 
length of the prothorax, with indications of faintly impressed 
lines on the disc, the sutural stria well defined. Length 4|-9, 
breadth 1^-2^ mm. ? ). 
Hah. Tasmania — Franklin_, New Norfolk^ and 
Launceston. 
Numerous specimens, varying greatly in size. 
Chiefly under bark of Eucalyptus (Walker). 
Ctenoplectron. 
Gtenoplectronj Redtenbacher, Reise der Novara, ii., 
p. 136 (1868). 
The described species of this genus are all from New 
Zealand. 
Ctenoplectron agile, n. sp. (Plate YI,_, fig. 8.) 
Very elongate, narrow, cuneiform, opaque, varying in colour 
from piceous to fuscous, the head (the eyes excepted), the pro- 
thorax, and the body beneath usually entirely or in part ferruginous 
or flavo-f erruginous ; the antennae pitchy-brown, with the first and 
second joints, and sometimes the eleventh also, rufo-testaceous ; 
the legs testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the tibiae and tarsi sometimes 
infuscate ; above and beneath very minutely and very densely 
punctate, clothed with a short fine sericeous pubescence, which is 
of a yellowish-cinereous colour above and fulvous beneath. 
Antennae about half the length of the body, very slender, fili- 
form, joint 3 twice as long as 2, 3-1 1 subequal. Prothorax fully 
as long as broad, very convex, narrowed in front, widest a little 
