168 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



given by Lacordaire. The first joint is thick and longer than 

 the others, the second a little smaller, the third and following 

 joints up to the 9th are short and moniliiorm, and the last three 

 form a compact club of which the basal joint is the largest. 



306. — Ipsaphes nitidulus. u. sp. 



Length 2 lines. 

 Brownish red, nitid and punctate Antennas with the third 

 joint scarcely longer than the fourth. Head with a slight longi- 

 tudinal impression on the forehead. Thorax transversely quad- 

 rate, emarginate on the anterior border, and truncate at the base, 

 with the angles produced into minute teeth, and with the sides 

 a little rounded behind the anterior angles. Scutellum transverse 

 and slightly rounded behind. Elytra strongly punctato-striate, 

 with a sublateral carina. 



Placonotus. n. gen. 



Like the genus Platisus Erichs ; but difiers entirely in the 

 character of the antennae. The body is very flat. The antennae 

 are long and filiform, the first joint thick, the second, third, and 

 fourth joints of nearly equal size, slighter and shorter than the 

 first, the remainder long and slight. The first article of the tarsi 

 is of normal length. 



307. — Placonotds longicoenis. n. sp. 

 Length 1 line. 

 Brownish red, nitid, finely punctate. Antennae of the length 

 of the body. Thorax nearly square, with a small tooth at each 

 angle, and asublateral line. Scutellum transverse and triangular. 

 Elytra of a pale red, and very finely panctato-striate, with a broad 

 longitudinal depression in the middle of each elytron. 



308. — Beontes nigeicans, Pasc. Journ. of Ent., Vol. 

 I., page 321. 



309. SiLVANUS CASTANEUS. n. Sp. 



Length 1| lines. 

 Of an opaque chesnut colour, mixed slightly with black in 



