the Anstrah'((ii CurciillouitUt*. 189 



obconicis ; c/rtV(f distincta. Ot'«/i ovati, tenuiter granulati. Pro- 

 thorax siibcoiiiciis, basi bisinuatiis, lobis ocularibus nullis. Eli/tra 

 breviuscula, pi'othoracc multo latiora. Femora incrassata, mutica ; 

 tihim anticao et interraedi;c arcuata.^, apice bicalcarataj, posticai 

 rectaj, apicem versus crassiores, spinoso-mucronatae ; tarsi articulo 

 tertio late bilobo. Abdomen segraentis duobus basalibus ampliatis, 

 tribus interinediis ad latera arcuatis. 



Allied to Erytenna ; but without ocular lobes, and the an- 

 terior and intermediate tibia having two spurs at the apex, 

 the inner one the ordinary mucro, the other being claw-shaped 

 and arising within the rim of the apex, as in many Crypto- 

 rhynchina^. The species here described is not unlike Sihmia 

 arenarice, 



Hedyojns seWgera. 



H. ovata, nigra, sat dense albido-squamosa, in medio jilaga magna 

 communi ochracea postice atro-marginata ornata ; rostro nitido, 

 fere nudo, vage puiictulato ; antennis ferrugiueis ; clava breviter 

 ovata ; prothorace latitudine longitndini a^quali, utrinque paulo 

 ampliato ; scutello triangulari ; clytris subcordatis, prothorace 

 multo latioribus, striatis, humeris subeallosis, apice rotundatis ; 

 corpore infra pedibusque argenteo-squamosis ; tibiis anticis lon- 

 giusculis. Long. If lin. 



Hah. Champion Bay. 



Gerynassa. 



Rostrum cylindricum, arcuatum, apice latius ; scrohes medianae, 

 laterales, obliqua). Scajms oculum attingens ; fwniculus 7-articu- 

 latus, articulo primo ampliato, secundo vix breviore, caeteris 

 brevibus, ultimis transversis ; dava dlstincta. Oculi subrotundati, 

 fortiter granulati. Prothorax transversus, antice constrictus, 

 basi subtnmcatus. Scutellum triangulare. Elytra ampla, pro- 

 thorace multo latiora. Pectus brevissimum, hand canaliculatum. 

 Coxce anticae contiguas, intermediae approximatae. Femora crassa, 

 mutica ; tihice subflexuosae, apice mucrouatiB ; tarsi articulo tertio 

 biloho, quarto elongato. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus 

 amphatis, tribus intermediis ad latera leviter arcuatis. 



The coarsely faceted eyes and subtruncated base of the 

 prothorax are the diagnostic characters of this genus, by 

 which it may at once be differentiated from Erytenna ; both 

 genera, from the breadth of their elytra, have a similar contour. 



Gerynassa nodulosa. 

 G. rufo-ferrugiuca, squamis griseis silaceisque variegala, plagis nigris 

 basi prothoracis et circa scutellum notata, aUquando maculis aliia 

 adspersa ; rostro nitide ferrugineo, basin versus utrinque linea 

 elevata instructo ; antennis dilute ferrugineis ; prothorace pone 

 apicem sat abrupte convexo, utrinque ampliato ; scutello nigro, 



