BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 309 



value, I had no alternative but to add another genus. Beyond 

 the characters given above of the genus, there are other pecu- 

 liarities in the insect, which might claim to be of generic import- 

 ance, but I am and always have been averse to limiting too much 

 the range of a genus by giving it a too limited definition. But 

 all these peculiarities are included in the following specific 



description. 



53. Paraphanes nitidus. 



Oblong, convex, brassy-brown, very nitid. Head finely punc- 

 tate; eyes large, transverse, touching, but not covered by, the thorax, 

 not approximate in front, the clypeal suture almost straight, the 

 clypeus transverse, broadly and slightly rounded in front and 

 recurved on the sides where it is produced a little over the eye ; 

 labrum short, transverse. Antennse longer than the head and 

 thorax united, the first joint rather large, the second about one- 

 third the length of the third, the third nearly twice the length of 

 the fourth, the rest of about equal length but broader and flatter. 

 Thorax transverse, minutely punctate, much emarginate in front, 

 the anterior angles produced and rounded, the sides slightly 

 rounded and margined, the margins flattened out at the anterior 

 and posterior angles where they are coarsely punctured, the 

 posterior angles very acute and the base broader than the apex 

 and lobed in the middle. Scutellum curvilinearly triangular, 

 depressed in the middle and minutely punctate. Elytra of the 

 same width as the base of the thorax, and more than three times 

 the length, convex in the middle, besinuate at the base, narrowed 

 a little to the apex, and covered with numerous rows of small 

 rather irregular punctures becoming less distinct towards the apex 

 and with a deep impression near each side a little behind the 

 humeral angle. The under surface is nitid and minutely punc- 

 tate, and very minutely rugose. The legs are moderately stout, 

 the thighs much swollen towards the apex, the tibiae densely 

 punctate, the punctures setigerous ; the last joint of the tarsi as 

 long as all the others united. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River. 



