Tenebrionidae/rom Australia and Tasmania. 293 



minute, approximate, the intervals of the striae slightly convex, 

 the alternate ones rather more raised ; body beneath brownish, 

 the abdomen marked with delicate longitudinal lines ; antennae 

 and tarsi ferruginous, shining. Length 7 lines. 



MlTHIPPIA. 



Subfamily Cypkalbinm. 

 Oculi prothorace haud liberi. 



Antenna art. haud transversis, tribus ult. gradatim crassioribus. 

 Mesosternum amplum, declive, haud excisum. 



Head deeply inserted, rounded anteriorly; clypeus separated 

 from the front by a shallow groove. Eyes partly covered by the 

 prothorax, transverse, broad, remote. Antennae slender, none 

 of the joints transverse, the last three a little stouter than the 

 rest. Mentum trapezoidal, narrowed at the base. Prothorax 

 subquadrate, flattish, broadly emarginate at the apex, with the 

 anterior angles produced, the sides forming a narrow carina. 

 Elytra oblong, slightly depressed; epipleurae obliquely de- 

 scending, entire. Legs rather short; femora slightly thickened; 

 tibiae linear ; tarsi with the basal joint of the intermediate and 

 posterior elongate, the last joint of all short. Prosternum 

 rather broad, depressed, not produced behind. Mesosternum 

 large, declivous, not notched. 



A degraded form of the Cyphaleinae, differing from the rest 

 in its simple mesosternum, not notched for the reception of the 

 prosternal process ; the mesosternum, notwithstanding, pre- 

 serves the peculiar hollowed surface which forms one of the 

 characteristics of the subfamily. 



Mithippia aurita. PI. XII. fig. 3. 

 M. oblonga, depressa, brunnea, subnitida. 

 Hob. Adelaide. 



Oblong, depressed, clear reddish brown, somewhat nitid ; 

 head and prothorax very closely covered with oblong, rather 

 small but deep punctures ; the latter subquadrate, slightly 

 rounded at the sides anteriorly, but a little incurved behind 

 the middle, a shallow transverse impression towards the base ; 

 scutellum semicircular; elytra very closely striate-punctate, 

 the punctures large, square, and placed nearly at equal dis- 

 tances both transversely and longitudinally, and each giving 

 rise to a single recurved hair ; body beneath brownish testa- 

 ceous, shining, with rather crowded piliferous punctures ; fe- 

 mora and tibiae darker, closely punctured ; tarsi and antennae 

 yellowish ferruginous. Length 4| lines. 



