Tenehv'ionidse from Australia and Tasmania. 33 



very small. Eyes prominent, transverse, narrow throughout. 

 Antennas clavate, the joints, except the last three, surrounded 

 with whorls of stiff hairs ; scape not stouter than the other 

 joints, the third twice as long as the second, and longer than 

 the fourth, the remainder to the eighth becoming gradually 

 shorter, ninth andtenth transverse, eleventh rounded,discoloured, 

 the last three forming a short pubescent club. Oral organs ap- 

 parently as in TJlodes, but the labium less transverse and more 

 decidedly quadrate. Prothorax short, transverse, apex strongly 

 emarginate, each side expanding into a broad pointed angle 

 extending from the apex to the base, and fringed with short, 

 curved, stoutish hairs ; the base broadly lobed ; the disk slightly 

 convex, irregular. Elytra rather short, much broader than 

 the prothorax, convex, slightly irregular, not costate, broadest at 

 the base, the shoulders rounded and prominent. Legs shortish ; 

 tarsi slender, slightly hairy beneath, the posterior claw-joint 

 not so long as the rest together ; anterior coxas globose, not 

 approximate. Presternum flat. Metasternum moderately long. 

 A well-marked genus, on account of its peculiar prothorax 

 and clavate antennas. In colour and clothing the species de- 

 scribed below bears a striking resemblance to Lemodes coccinea, 

 Boh., an anomalous form supposed to belong to the Pyro- 

 chroidas, common in fungi under the bark of decaying trees in 

 Victoria. Boletophagus Sapphira 7 Newm.*, is another mem- 

 ber of this genus, larger and more brightly coloured, with the 

 suture and borders of the elytra black. 



Ganyme Howittii. PI. X. fig. 7. 



G. sordide miniacea, subsericea ; antermis, art. ultimo excepto, pedi- 

 busque nigris. 



Hah. Victoria; Tasmania. 



Closely covered with a dark miniaceous, somewhat silky, 

 scale-like pubescence, paler, less dense, and more scale-like 

 beneath, and without a vestige of punctuation ; upper lip and 

 palpi brownish black ; antennas black, except the last joint, 

 which is of a reddish-white colour ; prothorax with two vague 

 impressions in front and two behind, the latter more towards 

 the sides ; scutellum cordiform, indistinct ; elytra short in 

 proportion to the breadth, but about four times the length of 

 the prothorax, very convex, irregular, rather abruptly declivous 

 behind, one little callosity behind the shoulder, and two on 

 the declivity, the epipleura curving sharply up towards the 

 shoulder ; legs black, the tips of the tibias and tarsi inclining 

 to ferruginous. Length 2 lines. 



* Entom. i. p. 104. 



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