40 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and Sjjecies of 



teriorly, straighter behind the middle, not incurved at the base 

 towards the posterior angle, which is therefore obtuse, the 

 lateral dorsal grooves represented only by the foveas at the 

 base ; scutellum small ; elytra as broad as or broader than the 

 prothorax, ovate, the costas equal in breadth ; body beneath 

 and legs glossy brown ; tarsi ferruginous. Length 7-8 lines. 



Allied to A. errans, Pasc, a black glossy species, but differ- 

 ing essentially, inter alia, in the form of the prothorax, which 

 is longer, considerably less rounded posteriorly, and with the 

 fovea?, but without any trace of the lateral grooves. I have 

 four specimens, all slightly differing, inter se, but agreeing in 

 the characters given above. Another very near may hereafter, 

 on more extensive examination of specimens, be found distinct. 



The species of Atryphodes form three divisions : all above 

 described, together with errans and brevicottis* ', belong to the 

 Walcknaeri category, and are more or less glossy, with the 

 foliaceous margins of the prothorax below the general level of 

 its disk ; the second category contains Macleayi, aratus, and 

 eyerius, and are opaque, with the margins directed upwards, 

 especially in the two former, and the disk of the prothorax flat 

 and lying below them ; lastly, there is the following species, 

 in which the foliaceous margins become obsolete. 



Atryphodes caperatus. 



A. angustatus, niger, nitidus ; prothorace oblongo, angulis anticis 

 leviter rotundatis, lateribus haud foliaceis, in medio haud rotun- 

 datis, ad basin subito contractis, sulcis discoidalibus interrupts . 



Hab. Hunter's River ; Darling Downs. 



Narrow, black, shining ; frontal space with five fovea? (three 

 above, two below) ; prothorax oblong, slightly broader than the 

 elytra, sides moderately rounded anteriorly, then nearly straight, 

 but narrowing posteriorly, near the base rounded, and then 

 suddenly contracted and passing into the usual acute basal 

 angle; no foliaceous margin, the two lateral discoidal lines 

 broken up and irregular, but varying in different individuals ; 

 scutellum transverse, scarcely below the level of the adjacent 

 part of the elytra ; the latter considerably more than twice the 

 length of the prothorax, and with a bronze tint, their costae 

 equal ; body beneath and legs glossy brownish black, the first 

 two abdominal segments with a more or less decided broad 

 longitudinal depression. Length 9 lines. 



A very narrow form, without foliaceous margins to the pro- 

 thorax, and in these respects leading to Otrintus. The frontal 



* Redtenbacher, Nbvara-Reise, p. 130. The " licinoides " of the same 

 author appears to he synonymous with aratus. 



