collected in Australia and Tasmania. 
275 
about equal in length, much longer than broad, 4 sharply triangular, 
5-10 each produced on the inner side into a long, oblique, acute 
tooth, the teeth becoming longer outwards, the apical joint similarly- 
produced, but truncate at the tip. Prothorax at the base slightly 
•wider than the head, moderately convex, strongly transverse, 
gradually narrowing from the base, rounded at the sides before the 
middle, and constricted in front into a short broad neck, the apex 
rounded, the hind angles acute and outwardly directed, the base 
subtruncate ; the surface thickly, rather finely, very irregularly 
punctate, and with two smooth, transverse, tubercular elevations 
on the disc towards the apex. Elytra much wider than the pro- 
thorax, about as long as the metasternum, widely dehiscent, with 
the inner margin concave, and the apex broad and subtruncate ; 
finely, sparsely, irregularly punctate, the humeri almost smooth. 
Beneath sparsely punctured. Legs slender. Wings slightly 
suffused with fuscous. Length 8|^, breadth 2f mm. {$). 
Hah. Tasmania — Hobart. 
One specimen only of this remarkable insect was 
obtained. It differs from the type of the genus S, hopeiy 
White, in its slender limbs, small size, etc. Found 
crawling on a fence at Kangaroo Point, and mistaken by 
me at the time of capture for a saw-fly (Walker).''' 
