280 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



590. — Dechids APHODioiDES, Pasc. Journ. of Ent., II., 

 page 445. 



MiCROPHYES. n. gen. 



Antennae shorter than the thorax, the third joint not quite so 

 long as the fourth and fifth together, the 6th 7th 8th 9th and 10th 

 joints transverse, serrate, and gradually increasing in size, the 11th 

 nearly round. Last ai-ticle of maxillary palpi obtuse and sub- 

 cylindrical. Labruni shoi't, transverse. Clypeus lightly emar- 

 ginate, joined to the head by a semicircular suture. Eyes entirely 

 divided by the cheeks. Thorax very transverse, emarginate in 

 front, biemarginate behind. Body oval, subdepressed. Legs as 

 in Tenehrio. 



The broad oval subdepressed form of the species on which I 

 found this genus is unlike any of the Tenehrienidce proper I have 

 hitherto come across. In other respects it approaches very 

 nearly to Tenehrio. 



591.- — MiCROPHYES RUFiPEs. n. sp. 



Length 2^ lines. 



Ovate, dark piceous brown, subnitid, finely and not densely 

 punctate. Thorax twice as broad as the length, finely bordered 

 at the sides and base, rounded on the sides, widest at the base, 

 and broadly lobed in the middle of the apex, with the anterior 

 angles moderately advanced. Scutellum curvilinearly triangu- 

 lar. Elytra as broad at the base as the base of the thorax, very 

 slightly widened towards the apex which is round, and covered 

 with punctures and subobsolete striae, with faintly elevated in- 

 terstices. Under side of body and legs reddish. 



592. — Cephaleus chalybeipbnnis. n. sp. 

 Length 8 lines. 

 Broadly ovate, very convex, and very nitid. Head and thorax 

 finely punctate, and of a golden green colour, the latter margined 

 with purple on the sides, and impressed in the middle on the 

 median line and on each side of it, with the anterior angles acute 

 and reflexed. Scutellum golden green, finely punctate. Elytra 



