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Title: Transactions and proceedings and report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Subjects: Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia Science
Publisher: Adelaide : The Society
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ull:—This isan extremely peculiar and isolated genus, and forming, I amdisposed to believe, a distinct family of the Eoplacophora, orslitless chitons; that is, if the slits really prove to be com-pletely absent, for the unique type has not been disarticulated.In some features it recalls the Acanthochitidae. The singlespecimen was described and illustrated from the unique typein the British Museum, in the Manual of Conchology, vol.xiv. DESCRIPTION OF PLATE IX. Fig. la. Choriplax grayi pattisoni, Ashby, upper side, x about 5. Showing small heart-shape tegmentum and enveloping epidermis with tear in valve 2 revealing smooth articula- mentum underneath.Fig. 15. Choriplax grayi pattisoni, Ashby, interior of shell, x5. Showing sutural laminae.Fig. lc. Choriplax grayi pattisoni, Ashby, upper side with strong light thrown through the shell showing (a) shadow of sutural laminae, (b) opacity of tegmentum, (c)t\\e posterior lobes united across the median line, x5. and Proc. Hoy. Soc. S. Austr.
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Gillingham. Swann A Co. Ltd., Printers, Adelaide 143 Australian Coleoptera. Part I By Albert H. Elston, F.E.S. (Read August 11, 1921.1 PSELAPHIDAE.Ctenisophus curvipes, n. sp.Pale castaneous, with parts of elytra paler. Moder-ately clothed with short, white pubescence, becoming setae atapex of elytra, and absent from the middle of prothorax andelytra. Head with a few more or less concealed subrugose punc-tures and two large shallow foveae between the eyes.Antennae long and moderately stout, the first two joints abouttwice as wide as joints three to seven, the first about aslong as second and third combined, thesecond little more than half the length ofthe first, third to seventh are equal inlength, each being slightly longer thanhalf the length of the second, the eighthcylindrical, and about as long as jointsthree to seven combined, and as wide asthe second, the ninth about two-thirdsthe length of the eighth and wider atapex than at base, the tenth perceptiblylonger than the ninth, an

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