494 Prof. J. O. Westwood's descriptions of 



produced at its apex into an obtuse angle, bcino;, as is 

 also the terminal joint, elongated, flattened and dilated. 

 The species are obsctire, and have very little of the 

 appearance of the family to which they belong. 



Species 1. Anisopliylhis ohscuriis. (PI. II. fig. 1.) 



Piceo-niger, capite et pronoto vix nitidis ; elytris opacis, 

 crebre punctatissimis, breviter sctosis, basi parum sub- 

 rufescentibus ; pedibus nigris, femoribus lutesccntibus, apice 

 nigris. 



Long. corp. lln. 2>\. 



Habitat Mysol ins. INIalay. (Wallace.) 



In jMus. Ilojiciano Oxoniaj. 



Obs. — Individuum alteram, ex New Guinea allatum, est 

 parum majus et pallidius, elytris basi rufescentibus, an- 

 teunisque luteo-fuscis. 



Family TELEPHORID.E. 



Genus nov. Astyciiina. 



Corpus parvum, depressum, nitidum, subcoriaceum. 



Caput transversum, subcouvexum. Labrum minutum, 

 membranaceum, semi-rotundatum, medio autice emargina- 

 tum. Mandibular graciles, acutissimtB, falciformes. Maxillns 

 bilobatfe. Palpi maxillares filiformes. Labium subovale, 

 minutum, membranaceum. Palpi labiales modice elongati, 

 articulo ultimo basin versus incrassato, apice attenuate. An- 

 tennae elytris breviores, articulo 3tio praicedenti fere triplo 

 longiori, articulis 4to — 9um scnsim paullo crassioribus, arti- 

 culo lOmo difformi, extus rotundato, intus in lobum parvum 

 reflexum ante apicem producto (in uno sexu $ ? incrassato 

 ct sulcato) ; articulo ultimo maximo, supra producto, infra 

 in spinam acutam elongatam (articulum prKCcdentem super- 

 antem) terminato (in uno sexu ?? incrassato, elongato, 

 hand spinam gcrente). Prothorax transvcrsus, latcribus 

 rotundatis. Elytra elongata, parallola, subdepressa. Pedes 

 graciles, tarsis articulo 4to subtus bilobato, unguibus tar- 

 sorum basi dilatatis. 



This genus is allied to Podah'us, but the antenna-, ex- 

 hibit a very anomalous structure, the two terminal joints 

 in one sex forming what appears to be a remarkable pre- 

 hensile apparatus, different from anything Avhich I have 

 elscM'hcre noticed in the insect world, but of which some 

 analogous forms occur in some of the Entomostracous 

 Crustacea. 



