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



longest ; femora gradually thickened, furnislied with tro- 

 chanters ; tibiae shortly spurred, intermediate and anterior 

 arched j tarsi short, entire, the claw-joint longer than the rest 

 together. Prosternum broad, produced behind. Mesosternum 

 broadly V-shaped. Metasternum very short. Intercoxal pro- 

 cess small, quadrate. Abdomen with the third and fourth 

 segments strongly incm'ved at the sides. 



In habit resembling PedinuSj with which I at first thought 

 this genus might possibly be connected ; but its true place is 

 with the Coelometopin^e. Mr. F. Bates has already placed his 

 two Australian genera Hypaulax and CMleone^ dismembered 

 from Nyctohates^ in this subfamily ; but these are very different 

 in appearance from Asphalus. There is a considerable depres- 

 sion on the throat of the species here described, which repre- 

 sents the grooves of Hypaulax and Codometopus. The loAver 

 lip is also remarkable, inasmuch as the central lobe appears to 

 be corneous, whilst the lateral ones are membranous. 



Asphalus eheninus. PI. XI. fig. 3. 

 A. aterrimus, nitidus, laevis ; elytris leviter punctato-striatis. 



Hah. Clarence River. 



Deep black, smooth and shining ; antennge and tarsi ferru- 

 ginous ; head and prothorax very minutely punctured, the 

 latter with the sides rather more broadly margined anteriorly 

 than posteriorly ; scutellum very short, transverse ; elytra very 

 convex, faintly punctate-striate, the epipleura at its junction 

 with the disk forming a prominent line, especially anteriorly ; 

 body beneath more or less finely corrugated. Length 8 lines*. 



Peomethis. 



Subfamily TenebrioninjE. 



Caput exsertum, pone oculos collo cylindrico contractiim. 

 Prothorax angiilis anticis productis, rotunda tis ; marginibus integris. 

 TibicB hand calcaratae ; tarsi postici validi, breviusculi. 



The type of this genus is ^' Upis {Iplithimiis) angulatus^^YiX. f, 



* Mr. F. Bates, as we have already noticed, having withdrawn several 

 species previously placed with Nyctohates, to form his two genera Hypaulax 

 and Chileone, which he places in Ccelometopinae, it will be necessary to 

 constitute another for my N. feronioides. This genus, which I propose to 

 name Hydisstis, differs essentially from both the above in having the 

 penultimate joint of all the tarsi subbilobed ; it has no grooves behind the 

 mentum ; and the epipleural line terminates at the shoulder, this raised 

 and strongly marked line, which in Hypaulax is continuous with the 

 basal, being interrupted, the basal line turning backwards and running 

 down for a short distance inside and parallel to the other. 



t Wiegmann's Archiv, 1842, i, p. 174. It is found in Victoria as well 

 as in Tasmania. 



