Tenebrionidaj jfrom Australia and Tasmania. 281 



Shortly ovate, moderately convex, black, shining ; head of 

 the male with two short pointed horns, antennary ridges, 

 apex of the clypeus, and antennas luteous ; prothorax finely 

 punctured, twice as broad as long at the base, a little depressed 

 near the scutellum, the margins luteous ; scutellum curvili- 

 nearly triangular ; elytra striate-punctate, the intervals of the 

 stria? minutely punctured, broad, and convex, the shoulders 

 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 thallioides. 



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

 macula arcuata, elytrisque (sing.) maculis tribus magnis 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 ; scutellum curvilinearly 

 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 ; antennse 

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

 ceous. Length 2^ lines. 



Cerojiria?* valga. 



C. breviter ovalis, nigra, subnitida, antennis art. duobus basalibus, 

 labro tarsisque fulvis ; tibiis intermediis et posticis valde curvatis. 



Hah. Queensland. 



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

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

 front ; the clypeus broad, truncate anteriorly, the antennary 

 ridges impinging only slightly on the eyes ; antennas 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 



* De Cast, et Brull<5, Ann. des Sci. Nat. xxiii. p. 396. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. iii. 21 



