Oenera ami Species of Coleoptera. 471 



This is one of the forms, mentioned by M. Lacordairc, referred to 

 PropJianes, Wcstw., but lumng characters esaentiully different. They 

 would probably, liowevcr, be considered sliglit, if tliey were not ac- 

 companied by a marked difference of habit, and the species did not 

 belong to a family in which the instability of characters does not 

 always admit of very trenchant differentiation. Prophanes simplix, 

 Westw., belongs to this genus : my specimen scarcely answers in 

 some particulars to Mr. Westwood's description ; but it agrees in 

 having a deeply emarginate clypeus, a character by which it differs 

 from the species described below ; the eyes are also much more widely 

 apart, and the prothorax at the apex is considerably broader than 

 the head, the anterior angles being consequently well marked though 

 not produced. It is one of the many good things sent me by Mr. 

 Odewahn. 



Lygestira funerea, 

 L. olivaceo-nigra, nitida ; oculis parvis, fronte remotia ; clypeo niodice 



emarginato ; prothorace apice late emarginato. 

 Hah. South Australia (Gawler). 



Oblong-ovate, depressed, olive-black, or very dark olive, shining, and 

 having a very thin brownish tomentum ; head and prothorax minutely 

 pimctured ; the latter broadly emarginate at the apex, the anterior angle 

 on each side extending considerably from the head ; eyes small, widely 

 apart ; elytra finely punctured, longitudinally marked with numerous 

 almost obsolete costa?, the apex rounded ; body beneath black, and legs 

 black, shining, tibiae finely ciliated. Length 11 lines. 



Cholipus [Cnodalinae]. 

 Caput exsertum, antice transversum ) clypciis distinctus, fere ad basin an- 

 tennarum truncatus. iaftrwrn transversum. Mandihulce ^\cemi(^^rYx. 

 Palpi maxillares securiformes ; lahiales art. ult. magno, cyathiformi, 

 Mentum trapeziforme, in linea mediana incrassatum. AntetmcB art. 

 3io quam Imus longiore, 6-10 sensim latioribus transversis et compressis, 

 ultimo praecedente majore et rotundato. Prothorax subtransversus, 

 apice fere truncatus, ad latera rotimdatus, tenuiter marginatus, postice 

 constrictus, basi leviter bisinuatus. Elytra prothorace latiora, oblonga, 

 pone mediimi latiora. Tihice subcurvata), mutica) ; tarsi art. ultimo 

 majore. Prosternum dilatatum, declive. Mesostermim antice exca- 

 vatum. 



The type of this genus has long been known under Dejean's name 

 here adopted. With it I have associated a species from Queensland 

 which appears to me to be congeneric. The genus is distinguished 

 inter alia from its allies by its declivous prosternum without the 

 usual mucro. 



