446 Ml*. Francis P. Pascoe on 



LEPTOPIN^. 



PoLYPHRADES, SchonherPj Curcul. v. 805. 



This genus may be divided into two sections by a 

 character which is now, in most cases, considered suf- 

 ficiently important to warrant generic separation, i. e., 

 the fineness or coarseness of the facets of the eyes; but 

 as species of both sections have been referred to PoJy- 

 phrades by Fahraeus, Boheman, Germar, &c., I leave the 

 genus as I find it. 



Section 1. Eyes with fine facets. 

 Polyphrades pusilhts. 



P. obovatus, fuscus, squaraulis cinerascentibus vel 

 subargenteis fuligineisque variis omnino sat dense tec- 

 tus ; rostro capiti longitudine a^quali, multo angustiore, 

 extrorsum incrassato, tricarinulato ; antennis ferrugineis, 

 cinerascenti-squaniosis, articulo basali funiculi crassiore ; 

 oculis fere rotundatis, infra subacuminatis ; prothorace 

 parum transverse, apice basi multo angustiore, lobis 

 ocularibus obsoletis; elytris breviter ovatis, leviter sul- 

 cato-punctatis, punctis oblongis, interstitiis latis pla- 

 natis, macula basali alba utrinque notatis ; tibiis tarsisque 

 ferrugineis, parce cinereo-squamulosis, tibiis anticis bi- 

 flexuosis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. — West Australia. 



The smallest of the genus, and differing, as also do the 

 two next, from P. cincreus, parjanus, laticollis, and argen- 

 tarhis, the other species belonging to this section, by 

 their rounded or nearly rounded eyes. 



Polyphrades ortyx. 



P. late ovatus, piceus, squamulis albis vel subargenteis 

 praesertim ad latera fuscescenti-variis setulisque omnino 

 sat dense tectus ; rostro ca])itc vix breviore, multo an- 

 gustiore ; antennis ferrugineis, vage pilosis, articulo 

 basali funiculi crassiore ; oculis fore rotundatis, infra sub- 

 acuminatis ; prothorace paulo transverse, utrinque rotun- 

 dato, apice basi multo angustiore ; elytris subcordatis, 

 sulcato-punctatis, punctis oblongis, interstitiis latis, 

 porparura convexis, latcribus albis ; pedibus ferrugineis, 

 sparse cinereo-squamulosis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Hah. — West Australia. 



