Tenebrionidieyv*t>/?t Australia and Tasmania. 31 



nian, wliere, according to Dr. Lecoiitc, they are found under 

 the bark of trees. We are ignorant of the habits of the 

 Australian species. 



Brises trach^notoides. PI. XI. fig. 5. 



B. nip:ro-fusca, opaca ; elytris granulatis, punctatis, singulis bicos- 

 tatis. 



Hah. Champion Bay. 



Opaque blackish brown ; head and prothorax finely and 

 very closely granulate, the granulations more or less confluent; 

 scutellum transverse, pointed at the tip ; elytra moderately 

 convex, irregularly punctured, with the intervals granulate, 

 each elyti'on with two very marked costee not reaching to the 

 apex ; body beneath pitchy brown, finely but obscurely punc- 

 tured ; antennas and legs dark ferruginous, covered with scat- 

 tered stiffish hairs. Length 7 4 lines. 



ASPHALUS. 

 Subfamily Coelometofinje. 

 Caput ad oculos retractum. 

 MaxillcE lobo interiore hamato. 

 Tarsi omnes art. ultimo cseteris simul sumptis longiore. 



Head transverse, inserted into the prothorax as far as the 

 eyes ; clypeus separated from the front by an arched line, 

 slightly emarginate anteriorly; labrum broadly transverse, 

 porrect. Eyes transverse, nearly entire. Antennae rather 

 short, gradually thicker outwards, the third joint a little longer 

 than the second and fourth, and all, as far as the seventh, ob- 

 conic ; eighth, ninth, and tenth broader and shorter, the last 

 larger than the preceding, round and a little depressed. Men- 

 tum shortly pedunculate, hexagonal, winged * ; labium very 

 transverse, subtrilobed. Maxillary lobes — inner narrow, gra- 

 dually terminating in a strong hook ; outer short, broad, some- 

 what triangular. Maxillary palpi stout, the last joint securi- 

 form ; labial short, last joint large, cup-shaped. Prothorax 

 convex, broader than long, sides rounded, terminating poste- 

 riorly in a strongly produced acute angle ; apex deeply and 

 broadly emarginate, base bisinuate. Elytra ovate, as broad 

 as the prothorax, convex ; epipleurce entire, gradually narrow- 

 ing from the shoulder to the apex. Legs stout, the posterior 



* Mr. F. Bates (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 2o9) proposes by this word to 

 designate that ^'peculiar form of mentum composed of a central portion 

 large and convex and two smaller flat pieces (wings) situated on each side 

 at the back." These wings appear to be the '' lateral lobes "' of Dr. Leconte. 

 The presence of these lobes differentiates Nyctobates from Iphthimns. 



