Coleopterous Family Cleridce. 75 



Var. fascia mediana Integra ad suturam ampliata, macnlaque 

 commimi rotundata juxta apicem aurantiacis. 



Head thickly and coarsely punctured, laloium deeply excavated, 

 pale yellow, thorax thickly punctured and somewhat granulose, 

 transversely impressed in front as in Tlmiiusiinus, (channelled 

 in the middle in the variety) contracted helow the middle, and 

 with a constriction just below the base. Elytra of the width 

 of the thorax, sides parallel, covered with small punctures ir- 

 regularly disposed, but having a tendency to form striae, in the 

 variety the interstices are slightly raised. In the type the 

 humeral callus, a fascia near the middle (widening into a round 

 spot near the suture) and a small spot near the apex are pale 

 yellowish. The variety is of a brighter rufous colour, and has 

 the central fascia wider and ex]>anded towards the base common 

 to both elytra, as well as a largish spot in the place of the two 

 near the apex. Antennae as long as head and thorax, joints 2-8 

 rather longer than Avide, 9-10 a little widened, 11 oval, 

 acuminate, and with the point re-curv'^ed. 



Two specimens ISTew South Wales, [Saunders] and two, 

 var., Coll. Parry. 



Mbtabasis, Genus novum. 



Type Thanasimus accindn^, Newman., Ent. p. 364. 



Caput prothoracis latitudine, oculi subtiliter granulati vix 

 excavati. Antenna? apicem versus paulo incrassat;e. Palpi 

 max. art. ultimo fusiformi ; lab. eodem fortiter securiformi, tarsi 

 5 articulati, art. 4 tantum visibiles supra. 



Considerable confusion exists about the species described by 

 Mr. Xewman. 



M. Chevrolat has attempted to revive the genus Ghdlcklerus, 

 Spin, by associating it with another of ISTewman's species, pulcher. 

 The latter is an Eleale, and the two species have nothing in 

 common. Chev. also gives Zenith Icola fiilr/em, Cliv. as a 

 synonym of C. pulcJirr Newm. [Mem. 1876 p. 5]; C. himufiiliitus, 

 Spin, is in my opinion quite distinct. 



The present species is also (sec. Chevr., MS.) Lemidia ii/anis, 

 Germ. [Gem. et. Har. Cat. Col. 1748.] 



The $ is Cleras mediamis Westw. White Cleridte p. 17 sub. 

 Thaneroclerus. 



