452 Mr, Francis P. Pascoe on 



rostro breviusculo, antice fortiter bicarinato, nigro-setu- 

 loso; prothoraCG utrinque ampliato-rotundato, cristis 

 dorsalibus parum rugosis, area lateral! sublaevi ; elytris 

 prothorace latioribus, lateribus rotundatis, fortiter bicos- 

 tatis, tuberculis nigris validis conicis, serie exteriore 

 quinque, interiore sex constitutis, apicibus conjuBctia 

 perparum angulato-emarginatis ; femoribus granulatis, 

 tibiis tarsisque parce nigro-setulosis. 



Long. 7-8 lin. 



Hah. — New South Wales. 



Allied to D. coUaris, Boh., but differently clothed ; 

 the elytra with the tubercles black, the inner series 

 parallel and closer to the suture, their sides with two 

 prominent costae, &c. 



Melanegis, n. g. 



Euovio affinis, sed elytris supra planatis; et tarsis an- 

 gustis, subtus tomentosis. 



In this genus the tarsi are furnished beneath with a 

 dense silky pubescence, leaving a deep channel along the 

 middle of the two basal joints; in Enomus, the tarsi are 

 more or less dilated, and either naked beneath, or fur- 

 nished with a few bristles, or a fringe of stiff hairs along 

 the margins of the three basal joints. The prothorax is 

 not produced at the apex as in Dialeptoptis, and the habit 

 is far nearer to Tetralophus than to Etiomus. 



Melanegis sty gins. (PI. YII. fig. 6.) 



M.oblongus, aterrimus, squam\ilis subtilissimis griseis 

 setisque brevibus interjectis remote vestitus ; rostro in 

 medio profunde sulcato, bicarinato, carinis uniseriatim 

 sat fortiter punctatis ; articulis duobus basalibus funiculi 

 fere asqualibus, caeteris moniliformibus ; prothorace lati- 

 tudine et longitudine sequali, supra planato, antice tri- 

 fossulato, in medio latiore, lateribus granulato ; elytris 

 ovatis, prothorace paulo latioribus, seriatim vage punc- 

 tatis, interstitiis granulatis, dorso planato in tuberculis 

 tribus utrinque extenso, postice abrupte declivibus, apice 

 rotundatis, ad suturara perparum spinosis ; corpore infra 

 remote subtiliter nigro-setulosis ; pedibus tenuatis, setulis 

 nigris griseisque tectis. 



Long. 5 lin. 



Hah. — King George's Sound (Albany). 



