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



luteous ; epipleuras of the elytra and body beneath dull luteous ; 

 legs clear luteous. Length 2 lines. 



The following is^ no doubt^ a Platydema ; but there is no 

 trace of horns in either of my two specimens : probably they 

 are both females. 



Platydema thalUoides. 



P. elliptica, convexa, rufo-testacea, nitida ; prothorace utrinque 

 macula arcuata, elytrisque (sing.) maculis tribus magiiis nigris ; 

 antennis basi exceptis nigris. 



Hob. Sydney. 



Elliptic, convex, reddish testaceous, shining* head finely 

 punctured, rather depressed between the antennary ridges ; 

 prothorax smooth, slightly expanded at the lateral margins, a 

 large black arched spot or stripe extending from the anterior 

 to the posterior angles on each side, leaving in the middle of 

 the disk a nearly triangular patch ; scutelkim curvillnearly 

 triangular ; elytra minutely seriate-punctate, on each a round 

 black scutellar spot, and two transverse, also black, the first 

 in the middle, the second near the apex, both large and ap- 

 proaching the suture ; body beneath brownish testaceous, the 

 metasternum clouded with black ; legs testaceous ; antennae 

 black, the two basal and base of the third joint fulvous testa- 

 ceous. Length 2|- lines. 



Cerojyria'^'^ valga. 



C. breviter ovalis, nigra, subnitida, antennis art. duobiis basaUbus, 

 labro tarsisque fulvis ; tibiis intermediis et posticis valde curvatis. 



Hob, Queensland. 



Shortly oval, black, subnitid, the two basal joints of the 

 antennae, upper lip, and tarsi fulvous ; head very short in 

 front ; the clypeus broad, truncate anteriorly, the antennary 

 ridges impinging only slightly on the eyes ; antenna with the 

 fourth and following joints to the tenth inclusive more or less 

 obconic, and only slightly dilated on one side, the last ovate ; 

 prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, widely emarginate at 

 the apex, nearly impunctate ; scutellum transversely triangu- 

 lar ; elytra rather broader than the prothorax, the sides nearly 

 parallel, striate-punctate, the intervals of the strige flattish ; 

 body beneath dark glossy brown ; femora and tibiae pitchy, 

 tibiae curved, especially the intermediate and posterior. Length 

 4 lines. 



Differs from Cerop-ia in the antennae, which are scarcely 



* De Cast, et BruUe, Ann. des Sci. Nat. xxiii. p. 39(3. 



