6 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and Species of 



Ganyme Howittii. PL X. fig. 7. 

 G. sordide miniacea, subsericea ; antennis, art. ultimo excepto, pedi- 



busqiie nigris. 



Hob. Victoria; Tasmania. 



Closely covered with a dark miniaceoiis, somewhat silky, 

 scale-like pubescence, paler, less dense, and more scale-like 

 beneath, and without a vestige of punctuation ; upper lip and 

 palpi brownish black ; antennas black, except the last joint, 

 which is of a reddish-white colour ; prothorax with two vague 

 impressions in front and two behind, the latter more towards 

 the sides ; scutellum cordiform, indistinct ; elytra short in 

 proportion to the breadth, but about four times the length of 

 the prothorax, very convex, irregular, rather abruptly declivous 

 behind, one little callosity behind the shoulder, and two on 

 the declivity, the epipleura curving sharply up towards the 

 shoulder ; legs black, the tips of the tibiae and tarsi inclining 

 to ferruginous. Length 2 lines. 



Melytea. 



Subfamily Afocryprin^. 



Atitennce apice paulo incrassatee, art. 3^" sequentibus multo longiore. 

 Mentum subquadratum ; palpi labiales art. ultimo conico ; labium 



membrauaceum. 

 Maccillce lobo exteriore brevi, transverso ; palpi maxillares art. idt. 



subsecuriformi. 



Head triangular, subvertical, inserted into the prothorax 

 nearly as far as the eyes ; antennary ridge almost obsolete. 

 Eyes prominent, round, entire. Antennae exposed at their 

 insertion, long, filiform, but a little thicker at the apex ; scape 

 globose-ovate, second joint obconic, third twice as long as the 

 scape, fourth to the eighth much shorter than the third, ninth 

 and tenth thicker than the preceding, eleventh elongate-ovate. 

 Mentum subquadrate ; lower lip very small, membranous. 

 Maxillae very short ; outer lobe transverse, inner unarmed. 

 Maxillary palpi long, with the last joint securiform ; last joint 

 of the labial palpi conic. Prothorax oblong, a little depressed, 

 slightly rounded at the sides, tlie flanks confounded with the 

 pronotum, base and apex truncate. Elytra rather short, ovate ; 

 epipleura vertical, narrow, with the flanks of the elytra raised 

 above them, the shoulders obsolete ; no wings. Legs mode- 

 rate \ femora thickened ; tibia? filiform ; tarsi narrow, all nearly 

 equal, the claw-joint elongate. Anterior coxte globose, ex- 

 serted, not approximate. Prosternum on the same plane with 

 the rest of the propectus ; the anterior cotyloid cavities rather 

 remote from its posterior edge, intermediate with trochantins 



