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CATYPNES. 
C’. planicollis, sp. nov. (Mas.?) Nitidus; minus elongatus ; 
brunneus, capite obscuriori, elytris apicem versus pedibusque 
dilutioribus ; capite magno in medio sulcato, fortiter rugu- 
loso (area utrinque prope sulcum medianum nitida sparsim 
grosse punctulata excepta), mandibulis sat productis ad 
apicem hidentatis; prothorace (spinis exclusis) quam 
longiori fere duplo latiori, supra in disco planato sparsim 
subtiliter punctulato et foveis 3 grosse rugulosis Impresso 
(sc. una mediana sublanceiformi, et utrinque ad basin una 
ovali oblique posita), lateribus late declivibus rugulosis et 
ad marginem spinis minoribus 2 armatis (his ad apicem 
retrorsum curvatis) ; elytris sparsim distincte punctulatis et 
obsolete 3—vel 4—costatis apice suturali breviter spini- 
formi; antennis quam corpus paullo brevioribus ; pedibus 
inermibus, abdomine subleevi, sed segmento ventrali apicali 
(hoc in medio leviter emarginato) sparsim punctulato. 
Long., 12 1.; lat., 44 1. 
I feel some nesitation in referring this species to Catypnes 
owing to discrepancies between the utterly insufficient original 
diagnosis of Mr. Pascoe and the fuller subsequent one of M. 
Lacordaire. For example Mr. Pascoe asserts that the eyes are 
“nearly entire” while M. Lacordaire calls them ‘assez fortement 
échancrés.” The insect before me, however, agrees very well 
with M. Lacordaire’s diagnosis ; and therefore it would be un- 
justifiable (at any rate without examination of the type, which 
is of course impossible for me) to found a new genus for it. It 
is fortunately a species which can be distinguished from nearly 
all the other Australian Prionides by the combination of a very 
small number of its characters, viz., “sides of the prothorax not 
denticulate or crenulate but each bearing two well-defined spines, 
eyes strongly emarginate (almost exactly similar to those of 
T'oxeutes), antennee shorter than the body with basal joint very 
much shorter than the third, hind tarsi with basal joint shorter 
than the third and fourth together, third joint of the tarsi very 
deeply bilobed and spongiose beneath, legs extremely smooth and 
nitid without any denticulations, head (at least in the male) 
taansverse and very large. 
The present species is readily distinguishable from C. Macleayi, 
Pasc., by the sides of its prothorax having only two (not three) 
spines. The prothorax of this insect bears a remarkable resem- 
blance in outline to that of Zoxveutes arcuatus, Fab., but with its 
lateral spines very much smaller and (though directed hindward) 
scarcely arched. 
Western Victoria ; presented to me by Mr. Jung of Yorketown. 
