Tenebrionidaey/'o»j Australia and Tasmania. 293 



minute, approximate, the intervals of the striae slightly convex, 

 the alternate ones rather more raised ; body beneath brownish, 

 the abdomen marked with delicate longitudinal lines ; antennae 

 and tarsi ferruginous, shining. Length 7 lines. 



MiTHlPPIA. 



Subfamily Cypualeinm. 

 Oculi prothorace haud Hberi. 



Antennce art. haud transversis, tribus ult. gradatim crassioribus. 

 Mesosternum amplum, declive, haud excisum. 



Head deeply inserted, rounded anteriorly; clypeus separated 

 from the front by a shallow groove. Eyes partly covered by the 

 prothorax, transverse, broad, remote. Antennae slender, none 

 of the joints transverse, the last three a little stouter than the 

 rest. Mentum trapezoidal, narrowed at the base. Prothorax 

 subquadrate, flattish, broadly emarginate at the apex, with the 

 anterior angles produced, the sides forming a narrow carina. 

 Elytra oblong, slightly depressed; epipleurge obliquely de- 

 scending, entire. Legs rather short ; femora slightly thickened ; 

 tibiaj linear ; tarsi with the basal joint of the intermediate and 

 posterior elongate, the last joint of all short. Prosternum 

 rather broad, depressed, not produced behind. Mesosternum 

 large, declivous, not notched. 



A degraded form of the Cyphaleinse, differing from the rest 

 in its simple mesosternum, not notched for the reception of the 

 prosternal process ; the mesosternum, notwithstanding, pre- 

 serves the peculiar hollowed sm-face which forms one of the 

 characteristics of the subfamily. 



Mithippia axirita. PI. XII. fig. 3. 

 M. oblonga, depressa, brunnea, subnitida. 

 Hah. Adelaide. 



Oblong, depressed, clear reddish brown, somewhat nitid ; 

 head and prothorax very closely covered with oblong, rather 

 small but deep punctures ; the latter subquadrate, slightly 

 rounded at the sides anteriorly, but a little incurved behind 

 the middle, a shallow transverse impression towards the base ; 

 scutellum semicircular ; elytra very closely striate-punctate, 

 the punctures large, square, and placed nearly at equal dis- 

 tances both transversely and longitudinally, and each giving 

 rise to a single recurved hair ; body beneath brownish testa- 

 ceous, shining, with rather crowded piliferous pmictures ; fe- 

 mora and tibias darker, closely punctured ; tarsi and antennte 

 yellowish ferruginous. Length 4f lines. 



