34 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and SjMcies of 



Melytra. 



Subfamily Apocbtphin^. 



Antennce apiee paulo incrassatas, art. 3'" sequentibus multo longiore. 

 Mentum subquadratum ; palpi labiales art. ultimo conico ; labiiam 



meinbrauaceum. 

 Ma.viUce lobo exteriore brevi, transverse ; palpi maxillares art. iilt. 



subsecuriformi. 



Head triangular, subvertical, inserted into the prothorax 

 nearly as far as the eyes ; antennary ridge almost obsolete. 

 Eyes prominent, round, entire. Antennse exposed at their 

 insertion, long, filiform, but a little thicker at the apex ; scape 

 globose-ovate, second joint obconic, third twice as long as the 

 scape, fourth to the eighth much shorter than the third, ninth 

 and tenth thicker than the preceding, eleventh elongate-ovate. 

 Mentum subquadrate ; lower lip very small, membranous. 

 Maxillge very short ; outer lobe transverse, inner unarmed. 

 Maxillary palpi long, with the last joint securiform ; last joint 

 of the labial palpi conic. Prothorax oblong, a little depressed, 

 slightly rounded at the sides, the flanks confounded with the 

 pronotum, base and apex truncate. Elytra rather short, ovate ; 

 epipleura vertical, narrow, with the flanks of the elytra raised 

 above them, the shoulders obsolete ; no wings. Legs mode- 

 rate ; femora thickened ; tibise filiform ; tarsi narrow, all nearly 

 equal, the claw-joint elongate. Anterior coxa3 globose, ex- 

 serted, not approximate. Prosternum on the same plane with 

 the rest of the propectus ; the anterior cotyloid cavities rather 

 remote from its posterior edge, intermediate with trochantins 

 angulated externally. Metasternum shorter than the meso- 

 sternum. Interfemoral process rather narrow, triangular. 

 Abdomen with the ventral segments nearly equal in length. 



This genus and the following are so far connected that in 

 both the flanks of the prothorax are not separated from the 

 pronotum, and the mentum is sessile to the throat. In other 

 respects their principal characters are very dissimilar. For 

 further remarks I must refer to the next genus. 



Meh/tm ovata. PI. X. fig. 1. 



M. subnitida ; capite et prothorace nigro-piceis ; elytris cupreis ; 

 antennis podibusquc ferrugineis. 



Ilnh. Tasmania. 



Subnitid; head and prothorax pitchy black, finely punc- 

 tured ; ])al])i and antcnnaj light ferruginous, the latter more 

 than half the length of the body, and paler at the apex ; scu- 

 tellum transversely triangular, acuminate behind ; elytra co})- 

 pcr-brown, seriato-])unctatc, the punctures Tather coarse and 



