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Fig. 1 Perigona dorsata n. sp. 
Fig. 2. Perigona picta n. sp. 
Cape York, by washing thick accumulations of leaves and bird drop- 
pings from under a tree where a colony of birds had nested, and I 
have specimens from Lankelly Creek on the Mcllwraith Range east 
of Coen half way up the Cape York Peninsula, and from Cairns, 
Kuranda, and Longlands Gap on the Atherton Tableland, North 
Queensland. Sloane’s type of australica was from Mackay, Queens- 
land. The species is to be expected anywhere in the warmer part of 
Australia. 
Perigona (Trechicus) dorsata n. sp. 
Figure 1 
Form as figured (Fig. 1), almost as in nigriceps but slightly less 
broad; head black (except labrum and mandibles testaceous), pro- 
notum dark reddish brown, elytra reddish testaceous with median 
dorsal cloud brown (suture pale) ; shining, slightly iridescent, reticu- 
late microsculpture lightly impressed, c. isodiametric on head, probably 
