1026 COLEOPTEKA 



Group-XANTHOLINID^E, 



Othius. 



1837. O. angUStUS, n>s. Narroiu, elongate, moderately shining, 

 castaneo - fuscous, legs, antennas, and palpi chestnut - red, man- 

 dibles rufo-piceous ; pubescence yellowish. 



Like 0. aduslns, decidedly narrower, and thus appearing very 

 elongate ; clypeus paler and more membranous ; labrum rather 

 larger, with more slender setae, entire ; mandibles inwardly angulate 

 at the middle, and with a distinct tooth beyond that point. The 

 head with two punctures near inner margin of the eye, two between 

 it and the antenna, two behind the eye, and a row along the back. 

 Thorax with two punctures on each side of the middle near the 

 front, two or three near the front angles, the marginal punctures 

 few and irregular. Elytra very short, their punctures closer, less 

 regular, the interstices more rugosely sculptured. Hind -body more 

 distinctly, yet finely, sculptured. Anterior tibia rather shorter, 

 with shorter apical spines ; tarsi more dilated. 



Underside : Head with a frontal sulcus terminating in a tri- 

 angular impression ; penultimate ventral segment depressed along 

 the middle, ciliated at apex, shortened in the middle, thus ex- 

 posing the apical one, which has carinate borders to its medial 

 depression. 



Length, 7 lines ; breadth, J line. 

 Taieri. Mr. T. Chalmer. 



Group P-flSDERID-ffi. 



Phanophilus. 



Nov. gen. 

 (Sharp; Trans. Roy. Dub. Soc., 1886, p. 380.) 



Labrum magnum, rnedio eniarginatuni ; caput rotundatum, collo 

 sat lato ; antenna graciles haud fractae. Tarsi anteriores late dilatati ; 

 tibia anteriores intus subsimplices ; tarsi posteriores sat graciles, 

 articulo basale quam secundo vix longiore. 



Generis typus Liihofiiaris comptus, Broun (No. 211 : T.B.). 



This genus, though without any very salient characters, is 

 evidently abundantly distinct from any known, and should be placed 

 near Lathrobium and Domene, and this also is M. Fauvel's opinion. 

 It has not the facies of any of these forms, and is, I think, more 

 like Pcedcrus in this respect. From Lithocharis it is abundantly 

 distinct by the form of the labrum, by the strongly-dilated front 

 tarsi, and the proportions of the joints of the hind feet. From 

 Lathrobium and Domene it is distinguished by the almost simple 

 front tibiae, which are nearly straight externally, and have their 

 lower portion only very slightly flattened or shaved off, as well as 

 by the suborbicular thorax. The mandibles are elongate, strongly 

 bidentate towards the base. The head is large, suborbicular, and 

 the slender antenna are very widely separated ; the clypeus is 

 apparent as a strip of white membrane behind the labrum. The 



