304 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Tenebrionide 
angle ; intermediate and hind tibie slender, asperate, setose, the 
hind pair slightly bowed inwards in both sexes; tarsi sparsely 
clothed with long bristly hairs beneath, the two hinder pairs rather 
elongate, the first joint of the hind pair nearly as long as 3 and 4 
united, the anterior pair with the basal joints a little stouter and 
furnished with a brush of Jong silky hairs beneath in the male ; 
body oblong-oval, rather broad, apterous, sparsely clothed with long, 
appressed, silky hairs, the prothorax and elytra sparsely ciliate at 
the sides. 
This genus is proposed for a single species which 
appears to be not uncommon in Tasmania. It belongs 
to the “ Pedinides” of Lacordaire. H. canescens has 
much the facies of a small Asda. 
Hdylius canescens, n. sp. (Plate VIII, figs. 5, 5a, b, ¢.) 
Oblong-oval, rather broad, convex, ferruginous or obscure fer- 
ruginous, slightly shining ; above and beneath sparsely clothed 
with long, appressed, whitish, silky hairs, the pubescence denser at 
the sides of the prothorax and on the elytra, and on the pro- and 
epipleuree forming ciliz, the four hinder tibiz also with long hairs 
on their inner face. Head densely, rather coarsely punctate ; pro- 
thorax strongly transverse, much broader at the base than at the 
apex, the sides parallel behind, arcuately converging from about 
the basal third, the apex (viewed from above) very broadly trun- 
cate-emarginate, the base feebly bisinuate, the hind angles obtusely 
rectangular and very prominent, the anterior angles strongly pro- 
duced in front, the surface densely, moderately finely punctate, the 
punctures more scattered on the middle of the disc ; elytra con- 
fusedly punctured throughout, the punctures more diffuse, and 
much finer and shallower than those on the prothorax ; beneath 
shining, closely and rather coarsely punctate. Length 74—8}, 
breadth 4—42 mm. (g @). 
Hab. Tasmania—Hobart. 
Many specimens, found buried in the sand at roots of 
maritime plants, a few feet above high-water mark. 
CESTRINUS. 
Isopteron, Hope, Col. Man., iii., p. 112 (1840). 
Cestrinus, Erichson, in Wiegmann’s Archiv, 1842, i., 
Dey kile: 
Mitua, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., v., p. 56. 
