Coleopterous F'nniJi/ Cleridie. 7^ 



Vm: fascia mediana integra ad snturain anipliata, maeuliiciue 

 cninnmni rotundatsi juxta apiceiii aurantiacis. 



Head thickly and coarsely punctured, labium deeply excavated, 

 pale yelloAv, thorax thickly punctured and sonicAvhat granulose, 

 transversely impressed in front as in Thanasimus, (channelled 

 in the middle in the variety) contracted below the middle, and 

 with a constriction just below the base. Elytra of the width 

 of the thorax, sides parallel, covered with small }iunctures ir- 

 regularly disposed, biit having a tendency to form striae, in the 

 variety the interstices are slightly raised. In the type the 

 humeral callus, a fascia near the middle (widening into a round 

 sjiot near the suture) and a small spot near the apex are pale 

 yellowish. The variety is of a brighter rufous colour, and has 

 the central fascia wider and exjmnded towards the base common 

 to both elytra, as well as a largish spot in the place of the two 

 near the apex. Antennaj as long as head and thorax, joints 2-8 

 rather longer than wide, 9-10 a little widened, 11 o\al, 

 acuminate, and with the ])oint re-curveil. 



Two specimens Xew South Wales, [Saunders] and two, 

 var., Coll. Parry. 



Met.\basis, Genus novum. 



Tijpe Thaiios/nrna nm'iu-fi/a, ^S'ewnian., Ent. ]i. 3f)4. 



Caput prothoracis latitudine, oculi subtiliter granulati ^■ix 

 excavati. Antennae apiceni versus paulo incrassatai. Palpi 

 max. art. ultimo fusiformi ; lab. eodem fortiter securiformi, tarsi 

 5 articulati, art. 4 tantum ^•isibiles supra. 



Considerable coufusion exists about the species described bj' 

 Mr. Xewman. 



M. (^'hevrolat has altem^jted to revive the genus Chulrirlerns, 

 Spin, by associating il witli audthci'of Newman's species, pitlclier. 

 The latter is an Elealc, and the; two species have nothing in 

 common. ('liev. also gives Zeriithlcola fiihjens, Chv. as a 

 synonym of (". i>iilrlit'r Ncwni. [Mem. 187G p. o]; (l.Liiiinciili(tas, 

 Spin, is in uiy ojunion quite distinct. 



The ])resent species is also (sec. (.'h(n'r., MS.) LemhVia 'uiania, 

 Germ. [(jem. et. Mar. Cat. ('ol. 1748.] 



The ^ is Cleri'n me.iliiiii/ia \\\-:<i\v. Wliite Cleridie p. 17 sub. 

 Thaneroelerus. 



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