352 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on some new or little-known 



tact : the latter character separates it from Phrissoma, from which 

 it is also distinguished by its non-ventricose elytra and the absence of 

 all irregularities of surface, except at the base. Aconodes, Pasc, 

 to which it is nearly allied, has the basal joint of its antenna) short 

 and fusiform, and scarcely more than half as long as the third. Lastly, 

 D rim a £ has a habit of its own distinct from all the rest of the Dor- 

 cadioninoB, although the female has a certain resemblance to Mr. 

 White's genus Dorcadida. 



Brimus sjjinijiennis. (PI. XVII. fig. 5.) 



Athemisttts [Larniidae]. 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc, 2 ser. v. p. 49. 



Athemistus pubescens. 



A. tuberculatus, pubescens, rufo-fuscus, setosus ; elytris pone humeros 



incurvatis. 

 Hub. Australia (Port Philip). 



Rather narrower than A. rugostda, covered above with a dense red- 

 dish-brown pubescence, and with longer slender ei'ect hairs interspersed ; 

 head very convex in front ; prothorax nearly round, coarsely punctured, 

 a small tooth at the side, and a tubercle above it ; scutellum very small, 

 triangular ; elytra covered with numerous irregular granulations, nar- 

 rowly ovate, very slightly prominent at the shoulder, and rather con- 

 cave behind it, the apex entire ; legs moderately robust ; body beneath 

 reddish brown, slightly pubescent. Length 5 lines. 

 Resembles A. rugomlus, Guer. (Parmena), but is at once distin- 

 guished by its pubescence. In Major Parry's collection. 



EcHTniSTATT/s [Lamiidae]. 



Head convex in front ; eyes oblong, scarcely emarginate. Antennas 

 setaceous, longer than the body, arising from two diverging tubercles, 

 the basal joint robust and longest, the third with the remainder sub- 

 equal. Epistome and labium small, narrow. Palpi slender, the last 

 joint obliquely truncate. Prothorax transverse, strongly spined at the 

 side. Elytra short, ovato-conical, each with a nearly central elevated 

 spine, the humeral angle extending beyond the base of the prothorax. 

 Legs long, robust, femora not clavate. Tarsi with the basal joint 

 nearly as long as the two next together. Prostemuin toothed. 

 The characters which distinguish this genus from Cerar/idion con- 

 sist principally in the diverging antenniferous tubercles contrasted 

 with the remarkably erect and nearly contiguous ones of the latter, 

 in the toothed prosternum, and the long antenna?, all the joints of 

 which, except the second, are nearly of equal length ; while in Cerce- 



