Genera and Species of Coleoptera. 471 
This is one of the forms, mentioned by M. Lacordaire, referred to 
Prophanes, Westw., but having characters essentially different. They 
would probably, however, be considered slight, if they were not ac- 
companied by a marked difference of habit, and the species did not 
belong to a family in which the instability of characters does not 
always admit of very trenchant differentiation. Prophanes simple, 
Westw., belongs to this genus: my specimen scarcely answers in 
some particulars to Mr. Westwood’s description ; but it agrees in 
having a deeply emarginate clypeus, a character by which it differs 
from the species described below ; the eyes are also much more widely 
apart, and the prothorax at the apex is considerably broader than 
the head, the anterior angles being consequently well marked though 
not produced. It is one of the many good things sent me by Mr. 
Odewahn. 
Lygestira funerea. 
I. olivaceo-nigra, nitida; oculis parvis, fronte remotis ; clypeo modice 
emarginato ; prothorace apice late emarginato. 
Hab. South Australia (Gawler). 
Oblong-ovate, depressed, olive-black, or very dark olive, shining, and 
having a very thin brownish tomentum ; head and prothorax minutely 
punctured ; the latter broadly emarginate at the apex, the anterior angle 
on each side extending considerably from the head ; eyes small, widely 
apart; elytra finely punctured, longitudinally marked with numerous 
almost obsolete costz, the apex rounded ; body beneath black, and legs 
black, shining, tibize finely ciliated. Length 11 lines. 
Cuoxirus [Cnodaline ]. 
Caput exsertum, antice transversum ; clypeus distinctus, fere ad basin an- 
tennarum truncatus. Labrum transversum, Mandibule apice integre. 
Palpi mavillares securiformes ; labiales art. ult. magno, cyathiformi. 
Mentum trapeziforme, in linea mediana incrassatum. Antenne art. 
3io quam 1™us longiore, 6-10 sensim latioribus transversis et compressis, 
ultimo precedente majore et rotundato. Prothoraxr subtransversus, 
apice fere truncatus, ad latera rotundatus, tenuiter marginatus, postice 
constrictus, basi leviter bisinuatus. -Elytra prothorace latiora, oblonga, 
pone medium latiora. Tibie subcurvate, mutice ; tars? art. ultimo 
majore. Prosternum dilatatum, declive. Mesosternum antice exca- 
vatum. 
The type of this genus has long been known under Dejean’s name 
here adopted. With it I have associated a species from Queensland 
which appears to me to be congeneric. The genus is distinguished 
inter alia from its allies by its declivous prosternum without the 
usual mucro. 
