26 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or Utile- Jcnown 



Goetymes jiavicornis. (PL II. fig. 5.) 



G. pallide fiilvescens ; mandibulis, protliorace, sternis femoribusque ni- 

 gris ) antennis flavescentibiis. 



Hah. Australia (Port Stephens). 



Pale brownish fulvous, more or less clothed with short erect hairs ; 

 mandibles, prothorax, breast, and thighs black or browTiish black, ab- 

 domen and antennse pale yellow ; head convex and rounded in front, 

 covered with minute vermicular folds; epistome and lip trigonal; 

 mandibles thick, bifid at the end, coarsely punctured at the base ; palpi 

 robust, the labial much smaller than the maxillary, the last joint in 

 both ovate ; prothorax subtrigonate, the sides slightly rounded ; scu- 

 tellum triangular, the apex prolonged into a short quadrate process ; 

 elytra very short, spatulate ; legs robust ; all the coxae contiguous ; 

 femora and tibiae ciliated beneath, the latter with a single spur ; tarsi 

 short, the claws simple ; abdomen corneous, not contracting when dry. 

 Length 10 lines. 



The specimen described is in the British Museum. The hind tarsi 

 are unfortunately wanting; in the figure they are assumed to 

 resemble those of Sitarida Hopei. Port Stephen or Stephens is 

 about two degrees N. of Sydney. 



Cyphagogus [Brenthidae]. 

 Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. v. p. 182. 



Cyphagogus advena. 



C. rufo-testaceus, nitidus ; capite lato, breviusculo, apice emarginato ; 

 elytris sti-iatis, striis modice punctatis. 



Hab. Natal. 



Reddish testaceous, shining; head as broad as the prothorax, but 

 considerably shorter, finely and sparsely pimctured, widely emarginate 

 at the apex, which is bilobed on each side ; eyes round, black ; antennae 

 scarcely longer than the head ; prothorax narrow, compressed anteriorly, 

 with a few minute, scattered punctures ; no visible scutellum ; elytra 

 as broad as the prothorax, deeply striated, the striae with shallow, rather 

 distant punctures; body beneath more coarsely punctm-ed; legs with 

 the posteicior tibiae not longer than the basal joint of the tarsi of the 

 same pair. Length 3 lines. 



This adds one more to the list of remarkable genera common to 

 the Indian Islands and to Natal, yet still sufiiciently distinct to form 

 another category in this curious and very strongly marked genus. 

 That is to say, that in its shorter head and thicker rostrum it recedes 

 from Cyphagogus and approaches Zemioses, which, however, has legs 

 of the more normal character. 



