Tenebrionidai />"c//i Australia and Tasmania. 37 



them of three (one on the shoulder), the inner of two tuber- 

 cles, and one or two spots of the same amber-colour ; body 

 beneath brownish ferruginous, coarsely pmictured ; antennae 

 and legs yellowish ferruginous, with a few longish scattered 

 hairs. Length 2 lines. 



Atryphodes Howittii. 



A. viridi-aeneiis, aureo- versicolor, nitidus ; prothorace transverse, 

 angiilis anticis rotimdatis, lateribus modice foliaceis, rotundatis, 

 sixlcis discoidalibus leviter impressis ; elytris costis alternis mi- 

 noribus. 



Hah. Kiama. 



Greenish bronze, with varying golden reflections, shining ; 

 antennge pitchy black ; prothorax transverse, broader than the 

 elytra, anterior angles rounded, the sides with a moderately 

 wide foliaceous margin, slightly rounded, narrower at the 

 base, the discoidal lines shallow, the lateral abbreviated ; scu- 

 tellum subcordiform ; elytra about twice the length of the pro- 

 thorax, their alternate costee much smaller than the others ; 

 body beneath and legs pitchy brown, shining. Length 10-11 

 lines. 



Atryphodes is perhaps better known under its old name 

 Tlioracopliorus * ; but, as that name had been previously used 

 by Motschulsky, I proposed to replace it by the above f. 

 The characters as given by M. LacordaireJ apply to all the 

 species hitherto described, and therefore they need not be re- 

 peated here. Only one species was then known {A. Walck- 

 nae/'i, Hope) ; the other two, dilaticoUis, Gner., and Kirhyi, 

 Sol., I have no doubt are referable to it. The above is a very 

 handsome species, and easily distinguished by its colour. All 

 the species appear to have the head and prothorax impunctate, 

 or nearly so, the former has a frontal horseshoe-shaped or 

 stirrup-like impressed line, the anterior portion being the 

 groove dividing the clypeus from the front ; on the prothorax 

 there are a central and two lateral impressed lines, each termi- 

 nating posteriorly in a more or less strongly marked fovea ; 

 the lateral lines are frequently abbreviated. The males have 

 the anterior tarsi slightly dilated, and the antennae thicker 

 than in the females. I am not sure that the greater breadth 



* Ericlison said long ago, " The name must be altered, not only because 

 it has been already used, but also because it does not comply with the 

 rides of nomenclature." Wiegmaun's Arch. 1842, ii. p. 239. Thonicophoru^, 

 however, in Motsclndshy's sense, has been adopted by Dr. Gejuminger 

 and Baron von Harold in their great ' Catalogus Coleopteiorum,' now in 

 coiu-se of publication. 



t Joiun. of Eutom. ii. p. 478 (18U(i). t Gen. v. p. loU. 



