Classification of the Coleopterous family Bynastidie, 345 



front tibite tridentate, the middle and hind tibia3 truncate at the 

 end, but not dilated, and the tarsal joints equal and slender. 

 Mandibles very small, concealed by tlie clypeus, rounded at the 

 front and sides, and without teetli. Maxilla3 without teeth, the 

 terminal (outer) lobe blunt and ciliated. Mentum long and taper- 

 ing, bidentate in front. Last joint of all the palpi long and slender. 

 Cly])eus very short, with the front margin straight and retlexed. 

 Head and thorax entirely unarmed in both sexes. Prosternum with 

 a slender, sharply-pointed post-coxal process. 



^. The clypeus is a very little shorter, the front tibite less 

 strongly toothed, all the tarsi much longer and the abdomen reduced 

 and contracted. 



The National collection possesses a number of males 

 belonging to three species, but only a single female, 

 Avhich sex is evidently much rarer than the other. It 

 is an interesting and isolated genus, exhibiting several 

 features foreign to the Dynastidse in general. The elonga- 

 tion of the tarsi of the male in other genera is a con- 

 comitant of the fullest development of armature on head 

 and thorax, wliereas geneva in which such armature is 

 absent are usually characterised by the opposite condition 

 of contraction of the male tarsi. 



Anomalomorpha anthracina, sp. n. 



Nigra, nitida, corpore subtus, pedibus antennisque testaceis, 

 capita crebre punctato, clypeo brevi, antice recto, linea frontali vix 

 elevata angulata ; prothorace minute haud crebre punctato, lateribus 

 marginatis, regulariter et fortiter arcuatis ; scutello rugose punctato ; 

 elytris profunde punctato-striatis, lateribus grosse irregulariter 

 punctatis, marginibus lateralibus reflexis, apicalibus fere rectis, 

 angulis sat acutis ; pygidio minute haud dense punctato. 



Long. 18-20 mm. Lat. max. 10-11 mm. 



Rah. Queensland: Moreton Bay. 



There are two males and a female of this in the British 

 Museum. It is shining black with reddish-yellow legs 

 and underside, broadly oval and not very strongly convex. 

 The head is strongly punctured, the prothorax finely, and 

 the elytra are very coarsely and deeply punctate-striate. 



AnomalomorpTia geotrupina, sp. u. 

 Kobusitaj nigra, nitida, corpore subtus pedibus antennisque rufo- 



