Genera and SpecieFi of Coleoptora. 49 



Tenerus [Cleridac]. 

 Laporte de Castelnau, Silbcrm. Rev. Entom. iv. p. 43. 



Tencnis telejjlioroides. 



T. subangustatus, ater, nitidus ; prothorace, articulo basali antcnnarum, 

 labro, tibiisque flavis. 



Hab. Australia (Moreton Bay). 



Rather narrow and depressed, black, shining, finely punctured, 

 covered Avitli short setulose hairs ; head scarcely as broad as the pro- 

 thorax, black; oral organs and palpi yellow, except the tips of the man- 

 dibles, which are black ; prothorax reddish -yellow, the anterior border 

 black, three mammillated prominences on the disc, placed transversely ; 

 scutellum small, black ; elytra deep black, shoulders rather prominent ; 

 femora and tarsi black, coxae and tibise yellow; antennae black, the 

 basal joint yellow; body beneath black, shining, except the prothorax, 

 which is yellow. Length 3 lines. 

 The joints of the antennae are strongly produced on one side, as 



in the majority of the species of this genus, beginning from the 



third. I have only seen a single specimen, which is in my o-^ti 



collection. 



Choeesine [Cleridae]. 



Head small, transversely triangidar in front, slightly exsei*ted behind. 

 Eyes rounded, prominent, entire. Antennae 11-jointed, linear, not half 

 the length of the body, arising in front of the eyes; the first joint twice 

 as long as the second, which is only a little shorter than the third, the 

 fourth and fifth slightly longer, the rest subequal. Labrum transverse, 

 entire. Mandibles strongly curved, bidentate at the apex. Palpi clavi- 

 fomi, the joints very short and transverse, the maxillary much larger 

 than the labial. Maxillae roimded, two-lobed. Labium obovate. Pro- 

 thorax subquadrate, constricted posteriorly before the base ; pronotum 

 distinct from the parapleurae. Scutellum small, triangular. Elj-tra 

 convex, nearly hemispherical, advancing at their insei-tion on the base 

 of the prothorax. Legs slender; first joint of the anterior tarsi nearly 

 covered by the second above ; the middle and posterior tarsi with all 

 the joints fi'ee, the three intermediate of all fiu^nished with lamellae. 

 Abdomen slender, of six ? segments. 



The habit of this very remarkable insect approaches in some 

 respects the Melyrideous genus Chalcas ; the structure of the tarsi, 

 however, is that of a Clerid, and although a very isolated form, I see 

 no difficulty in placing it in the subfamily Enopliinae. 



Choresine advena. (PI. II. fig. 2.) 

 C. flava ; elytris cyaneis ; oculis pectoreque nigris. 

 Hab. Moluccas (Batchian). 



Head and prothorax pure yellow ; scutellum and elytra dark indigo- 



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