318 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Oenera 



majore, quarto usque septimum gradatim brevioribus et latiori- 

 bus, octavo, nono et decimo clavam magnam formantibus, sed 

 duobus iiltimis quasi conjunctis. Proiliorax transversus, lateri- 

 bus foliaceis, apice late emarginatus. Elytra oblonga, lateribus 

 angniste explanato-marginatis. Femora compressa, tibi(e rectse ; 

 tarsi lineares 4-articulati. Coxoi anticge valde transversse, 

 quatuor postici approximati. Prosternum angustum. Abdomen 

 segmentis longitudine fere sequalibus, liberis. 



According to Lacordaire's arrangement of the Trogositida^, 

 the 10-jointed antennse would place this genus in the ^go- 

 liinfe ; but in other respects it agrees better with Leperina^ or, 

 but for the inner unarmed lobe of the maxillae, with Peltis. After 

 a close examination of the tarsi, I can find no indication of an 

 atrophied basal joint, as is usual in this family, although it is 

 possible there may be one. The suture between the ninth 

 and tenth joints of the club of the antennae is so nearly obli- 

 terated that, except in certain lights, it does not seem to 

 exist ; as it is, I mention it with hesitation. In any case, the 

 genus is especially differentiated in having seven joints only 

 to the antennse exclusive of the club ; and it should, I think, 

 form the type of a new subfamily (Neaspidinas). I received 

 three specimens of the species described below four or five 

 years ago from my valued correspondent Dr. Howitt, of Mel- 

 bourne, but without any precise locality. In appearance it 

 is like Peltis ohlonga^ but much smaller and proportionally a 

 little broader. 



Neasjpis villosa. 



N. depressa, ovalis, supra fusca et subgriseo- villosa, marginibus pro- 

 tboracis, labro, antennis, corpore infra pedibusque pallide ferru- 

 gineis ; eapite prothoraceque sat vage punctate ; seutcUo semicir- 

 eulari ; elytris lateribus parallelis prothorace parum angustioribus, 

 dorso striato-punctatis, subrugosis. Long. 2-2| lin. 



Hah. Australia. 



Peltis monilata. 



P. oblongo-ovata, fusca, opaca, marginibus prothoracis ferrugineis ; 

 eapite prothoraceque reticulato-punctatis, punctis singulis in fundo 

 tuberculo minuto instructis ; antennis ferrugineis ; lobo interiore 

 maxillarum transverse, antice rotundato, inermi ; scutello parvo ; 

 elytris rugoso-reticulato-punetatis, singulis lineis tribus elevatis 

 munitis ; corpore infra pedibusque piceis, confertim punctidatis ; 

 prosterno planato, dilatato, postice late truncato ; acetabulis an- 

 ticis occlusis ; tibiis anticis apice spinoso-productis. Long. 4^ lin. 



Hah. Australia. 



In general appearance this species is somewhat between 

 Peltis oblonga and P. procera] and, as in tlic latter, the inner lobe 



