Tenebrionidae/rom Australia and Tasmania. 153 



laiy palpi stout, broadly dilated upwards ; the labial distant 

 at the base, \\\i\\ the last joint very large, cup-shaped, obli- 

 quely truncate. Prothorax longer than broad, narrowed and 

 truncate at the apex, sides rounded, posterior angles acute, the 

 base truncate. Elytra elongate, parallel, not broader than the 

 prothorax, rounded at the apex ; epi])leura narrow and nearly 

 equal throughout, but expanding as it ascends to the shoulder. 

 Femora stout ; tibi?e strongly curved ; tarsi short, the last joint 

 as long as the rest together. Anterior coxae transverse. Pro- 

 sternum slightly elevated, rounded behind. Mesosternum 

 short, V-formed. Metasternum elongate. Intercoxal space 

 very narrow, short, triangular. Abdomen with five segments, 

 all nearly equal in length and with corneous edges. 



Allied to Bows, Herbst, a genus placed with the Pythonidaj 

 by Dr. Leconte*, on account of its anterior cotyloid cavities 

 being open behind. The same authority also credits them 

 with conical anterior coxjb. I do not know the American spe- 

 cies ; but in B. Schneideri they are slightly transverse f, and 

 they are still more so in the present genus. Although I can- 

 not agree to separate Boros from the Tenebrionida3, as Dr. 

 Lecontc and M. C G. Thomson have done, yet it seems de- 

 sirable to keep them apart from Calcarince, with which they 

 do not appear to be very intimately connected. 



Tanylyi^a morlo. PL XL fig. 4. 



T. nigra, nitida ; prothorace basi trifoveolato ; elytris seriatim 

 puiietatis. 



Hah. Tasmania, 



Black, shining ; head and prothorax very finely punctured, 

 the latter with three very distinct fove^e at the base ; scutellum 

 semicircular ; elytra rather strongly punctured in closely ap- 

 proximate rows, the sutural row diverging near the scutellum, 

 a very short one taking its place ; body beneath and legs dark 

 pitchy, smooth and shining ; antenna? glossy ferruginous ; fore 

 tibige with a delicate fringe of hairs within. Length 6 lines. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI, 



Fig. 1. Ecttjchc crcbea : a, mentum &c. ; b, maxilla &c. 



Fiff. 2. Mcnerktes laticullis. 



Fiff. S. Asphalus chciiiims : a, maxilla; i, mentum. 



Fig. 4. Tanyhipa morio : a, mentum ; h, maxilla ; c, fore leg. 



Fig. 5, Brisi's trachi/Hofoifles : a, mentum ; h, maxiUa. 



Fig. 6, Fphi(lo)iii(s acuticonns : a, mentum ; b, uuixilla. 



Fig. 7. Apasis Iloicitlii ( cf ). 



* Class. Col. N. Am. p. 2o5. 



t M. C. (t. Thomson characterizes them as " ovato-globosse " (Skaud. 

 Col, vi. p. 326). 



