Tenebrionidsd from Australia and Tasmania. 35 



somewhat longitudinally impressed, the intervals between the 

 rows minutely punctate 5 body beneath chestnut-brown, finely 

 punctate ; legs light ferruginous. Length 3 lines. 



Hym^ea. 



Subfamily Apocryphinje. 



Antennce clavatae, art. tertio sequentibus haud longiore. 

 Mentum transversum, antice gradatim angustius; labium corneum. 

 MaanMoB lobo exteriore elongato, angustato ; palpi maxillares art. 

 ultimo ovato. 



Head subtriangular, rounded and obtuse anteriorly, subver- 

 tical, inserted into the prothorax nearly as far as the eyes ; 

 the clypeus separated from the front by a deep slightly arched 

 suture ; antennary ridge small, auriform. Eyes conically pro- 

 jecting, round, entire. Antennas exposed at their insertion, 

 subelongate ; scape globose, second joint shortly turbinate, 

 third to the eighth elongate-turbinate, nearly equal in length, 

 ninth and tenth nearly equilaterally triangular, eleventh ovate, 

 pointed, not longer than the tenth, the three forming a depressed 

 club. Mentum transverse, rounded at the sides, gradually and 

 rapidly narrowing towards the insertion of the lower lip, the 

 latter small, rounded, corneous. Maxilla? narrow, the inner 

 lobe unarmed. Maxillary palpi long, with the last joint ovate, 

 of the labial shortly cylindrical. Prothorax oblong, narrowed 

 posteriorly, the sides rounded, the flanks confounded with the 

 pronotum, apex and base truncate. Elytra short, ovate, the 

 shoulders obsolete ; epipleura narrow, vertical ; no wings. 

 Legs moderate ; femora thickened in the middle ; tibia? gra- 

 dually stouter towards the apex ; tarsi lengthened, slender, 

 the claw-joint moderate. The under parts nearly as in the 

 preceding genus, but the anterior cotyloid cavities very close 

 to the posterior border of the propectus, the mesosternum 

 and metasternum a little longer, the interfemoral process very 

 considerably broader, and the ventral segments gradually de- 

 creasing in length to the fourth. 



The position of Hymcea and Melytra is somewhat doubtful. 

 From the characters of the " Apocryphides^ as given by M. 

 Lacordaire*, they seem to me to belong to them. Mr. F.Bates, 

 who has made the Heteromera his especial study, inclines to 

 the opinion {in lift.) that, from the narrow antennary ridges, 

 they are more nearly related to the Strongyliinm^ and that they 

 form a distinct subfamily. In the l Genera,' the u Apocry- 

 phides" are classed among the u Helopides" an arrangement 

 to which Dr. Leconte f objects, because of the absence of the 



* Genera. &c. v. p. 432. t Classif. Col. North Am. p. 218. 



