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



the width of the prothorax and nearly twice as long, their 

 costge equal ; body beneath and legs glossy pitchy tjrown. 

 Length 7 lines. 



A narrow species, readily distinguished by its strongly 

 emarginate prothorax. 



Atryphodes pithecius, 



A. niger, subnitidus, elytris cupreo-fuscis ; prothorace paulo con- 

 vexo, utrinque modice rotimdato, marginibus anguste foliaceis, 

 sulcis lateralibus nuUis. 



Hah. Queensland. 



Black, slightly nitid, the elytra dark copper-brown ; antennai 

 brownish, much more slender in the female ; prothorax rather 

 longer than broad, slightly convex, the anterior angles obtuse, 

 the margins narrowly foliaceous, the sides most rounded an- 

 teriorly, straighter behind the middle, not incurved at the base 

 towards the posterior angle, which is therefore obtuse, the 

 lateral dorsal grooves represented only by the fovese at the 

 base ; scutellum small ; elytra as broad as or broader than the 

 prothorax, ovate, the costal equal in breadth ; body beneath 

 and legs glossy brown ; tarsi feiTuginous. Length 7-8 lines. 



Allied to A. errans^ Pasc, a black glossy species, but differ- 

 ing essentially, iiiter alia^ in the form of the prothorax, which 

 is longer, considerably less rounded posteriorly, and with the 

 foveas, but without any trace of the lateral grooves. I have 

 four specimens, all slightly diifering, rater se^ but agreeing in 

 the characters given above. Another very near may hereafter, 

 on more extensive examination of specimens, be found distinct. 



The species of Atryphodes form three divisions : all above 

 described, together with errans and hrevicollis^ j belong to the 

 Walcknaeri category, and are more or less glossy, with the 

 foliaceous margins of the prothorax below the general level of 

 its disk ; the second category contains Macleayi^ aratuSj and 

 egerius^ and are opaque, with the margins directed upwards, 

 especially in the two former, and the disk of the prothorax flat 

 and lying below them ; lastly, there is the following species, 

 in which the foliaceous margins become obsolete. 



Atryphodes caper atus. 



A, angustatus, niger, nitidus ; prothorace oblongo, angulis anticis 

 leviter rotimdatis, lateribus haud foliaceis, in medio hand rotun- 

 datis, ad basin subito contractis, sulcis discoidalibus interruptis. 



Hah. Hunter's River ; Darling Downs. 



Narrow, black, shining ; frontal space with five fovea? (three 



* Redtenbacher, Novara-Reise, p. 130. The '' licinoides " of the same 

 author appears to be synonymous with aratvs. 



