308 INSECTS OF THE CAIRNS DISTRICT, NORTHERN QUEENSLAND, 



Sub-Family CYPHALEIDES. 



52. Platyphanes elongatulus. 



Oblong, very nitid, brassy-black. Head densely and finely 

 punctate, the clypeus rounded in front except a slight euiargination 

 in the middle, and a little thickened and recurved at the sides and 

 without distinct suture. Thorax less densely and finely punctate 

 than the head, broader than long, largely emarginate in front ; 

 the anterior angles slightly prominent, the sides rounded and 

 widening a little to the base, the posterior angles a little acute, 

 and the base bx'oadly lobed in the middle with on each side of it a 

 circular depression. Elytra wider than the thorax, more than 

 tJiree times the length, and convex, with on each elytron 10 rows 

 and an abbreviated scutellar one of large deeply impressed 

 punctures, becoming smaller and indistinct towards the apex 

 The basal portions of the metasternum and abdominal segments 

 are rugosely punctate. The last joint of all the tarsi is longer 

 than the other three combined. 

 Length, 8 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



This species seems to approach nearest to Platyfhanes ohlongus 



of Waterhouse. 



Genus Paraphanes. 



Eyes free from the thorax. Prosternum shai-ply and prominently 

 keeled along its entire length. Mesosternum deeply and semi- 

 circularly incised in front. Epipleurse of the elytra incomplete. 

 Antennte of medium length, the joints from the 5th to the apex 

 broader than the others. In other i-espects like Platyiohanes. 



With all my anxiety to avoid adding to the number of genera 

 in a group already, as I feel inclined to think, overloaded with 

 them, I am compelled to form this genus for the insect described 

 below. Mr. Pascoe, who has given much attention to the 

 Cyphaleides, has sub-divided them into genera founded upon 

 certain anatomical differences, and accepting, as I do, his plan of 

 sub-division as correct, and his sub-divisions as of sufficient generic 



