188 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe on 



flexuosa?, infra oculos currentes. Antenna' tenues ; 

 scapus sensiin incrassatus, medium oculi attingens ; funi- 

 culus 7-articulatus, articulis omnibus longiusculis, longi- 

 tudine aequalibus; clava distincta. Octili ovati. Pro- 

 thorax sub-oblongus, basi apiceque truncatus, lobis 

 ocularibus fere obsoletis, dense ciliatis. Scutelluni ob- 

 longum. Elytra prothoraee latiora, humeris obliquis, 

 lateraliter subparallela, apicera versus rotundata. Pedes 

 et abdomen ut in Perpero. Corpus squamosum. 



Allied to Perperus and Pantopceus, but distinguished 

 from both by its well-marked scrobes extending to the 

 eyes, and by the base of the elytra being broader than 

 the pro thorax. 



Peripagis rvjipes. 



P. obscure nigrescens, squamulis minutis setulisque 

 tenuibus niveis vestita ; capite rostroque fuscis, hoc in 

 medio tenuiter carinulato, sulco laterali sat profundo ; 

 oculis niveo-marginatis ; prothoraee subtuberculato-ru- 

 goso, antrorsum parum angustiori ; elytris fortiter punc- 

 tato-striatis, punctis approximatis, in omni puncto squama 

 oblonga, interstitiis convexis, setulis elongatis curvatis 

 plerumque uniseriatim dispositis munitis, vitta marginali 

 nivea ornatis ; corpore infra fusco, leviter albo-squamoso 

 et setuloso ; pedibus rufis, fere obsolete squamulosis, 

 setulis tenuissimis dispersis ; corbulis posticis dense sub- 

 aureo-ciliatis. 



Long, 4^ lin. 



Hah. — Australia. 



MOLYTIN^. 



PSALDUS, n. g. 



Postrum validum, paulo arcuatum, infra scrobem sul- 

 catum, capite longius ; scrohes subterminales, laterales, 

 antice profundee, ante oculos desinentes. Oculi parvuli, 

 subrotundati. Scapus sonsim incrassatus, medium oculi 

 attingens; fi(niculus 7-articulatus, articulo basali longius- 

 culo, secundo obconico, casteris trausversis, gradatim 

 latioribus, ultimo ad clavam adnato ; clava breviter ovata, 

 obsolete articulata. Prothorax rotundatus, a]"!ice angusto 

 truncate. Smtellum haud observandnm. Elytra ovata. 



