neic genera and species of Cleridcc. 157 



Thriocera pectoralis is a variable species both in size 

 and colour. The eyes are finely facetted, finely setose, 

 and broadly cut out; palpi with the terminal joint elon- 

 gate, subsecuriform. Antenna3 with joints 3, 4 and 5, 

 elongate, especially so in T. anthicoides, where they are 

 filiform; the 8th, or joint before the club, is very short 

 in proportion. Of the club itself, the first joint is obconic, 

 but symmetrical (in Corynetes the same joint is more 

 acuminate internally); the second subquadrate, faintly 

 obconic; the terminal roimded at the apex, equally com- 

 pressed throughout, not acuminate on either side, longer 

 than wide, closely applied to the 10th, or joint preceding. 



T. pectoralis, King, is a black insect wdth red antennaj 

 and legs, bluish-black elytra, with a central-curved white 

 fascia. Sometimes the base of the elytra are red — this 

 is the type; sometimes only the shoulders are red — this 

 is the form described by Chevrolat as Clerus scapularis. 

 (Rev. et Mag. 18 74, p. 47.) 



T. antJiicoides, Newm. ; quadrimaciilutus , Cliev., loc. 

 cit., is a yellow insect, with two black patches on each 

 elj^tron, and the disk of the thorax black. It difters 

 from pectoralis in having longer antennas, and in having 

 coarsely-punctured el3'tra. Both are from South Africa, 

 Natal, &c. 



Paeatillus, gen. nov. 



Type, P. cams, Newman [ Clerus cams, Newm. Entom. 

 1810, p. 15. Tillus id. G. & H. Cat. p. 1724]. 



Head Avith the eyes little prominent, scarcely wider than 

 thorax, excavated, rather finely facetted. Antennas long, 

 three-jointed club, joints 9 and 10 a little produced trian- 

 gularly internally ; a])ical, ovate. Thorax faintly mar- 

 gined on the sides, elongate, subdepressed, deeply and 

 sparsely punctulate, with a central elongate fossa. Tarsi 

 foui'-jointed, basal joint concealed by the second above. 

 Abdomen of six segments. 



Hab. — Australia, Tasmania, Nova Caledonia. 



I have felt great difficulty in ascertaining the true posi- 

 tion of this genus. The tarsi indicate affinity with the 

 latter section of the Enopliides, the antennas and palpi 

 with the Corynelides. The species described by Newman 

 appears to vary somewhat. The type form has the head 



