270 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera 



Brejyhilydia jejuna. PL XIII. fig. 6. 

 Mallodon jejunum, Pascoe, Journ, of Entom. ii. 243, 



Phacodes tenuitarsis. 



P. fusciis, subnitidus, pube grisea interrupte vestitus, setulisque ad- 

 spersiis ; antennis articulis tertio qiiartoque fere ajqualibus ; pro- 

 thorace vix longiore quam latiore, panim rotundato, in medio 

 leviter carinulato, antice hiberculis duobus indistinctis, postice 

 versus latera costulis duabus obliquis munito ; scutello subtri- 

 angulari : elytris baud elongatis, depressis, apicibiis emarginatis, 

 granulis indistinctis rcmotis notatis, singulis plagis duabus minus 

 pubcscentibus signatis ; femoribns fortiter incrassatis, compressis, 

 tarsis linearibus. Long. ((5)5 lin,, (?) 7 lin. 



Hab. Western Australia (Nicol Bay), 



The smallest of my specimens is a male ; the female has 

 considerably broader tarsi, although still linear, the three 

 basal joints being of equal breadth. 



Phacodes longicolUs. 



P. sixbtestaceus, pube grisea vestitus ; antennis articulis tertio quar- 

 toque fere aequalibus ; prothorace capitc paulo angustiore, oblongo, 

 utrinqiie parum rotundato, in medio breviter carinulato, antice 

 tuberculis duobus nitidis ; scutello suborbiculari ; elytris hand 

 elongatis, depressis, apiee rotimdatis, granulis nitidis distinctis 

 adspersis ; femoribus sat fortiter clavatis, maculis denudatis no- 

 tatis ; tarsis posticis articulo basali anguste triangulari. Long. 

 4 lin. 



Hah. Queensland (Wide Bay). 



Tliis species has a narrow prothorax, and the femora ai-e 

 more clavate and less compressed than in its congeners, in 

 this respect approaching Thej^hantes^ and distinct from Pha- 

 codes by its abruptly clavate femora and mutic antenna, 

 thicker in the middle in the male. 



Maltheba. 



(Neosteninge.) 



Caput breve ; tubera antennifera distantia. Antennce 11-articulatae, 

 ( c? ) corpore vix longiores, articulis, sccundo excepto, subsequali- 

 bus, extus apice unilateraliter dilatatis, ( 5 ) corpore breviores. 

 Oculi permagni. Palpi articulo ultimo cylindrico. Mandihulce 

 breves. Labium minutnm. Prothorax transversus, utrinque in 

 medio tuberculato-spinosus. Elytra clongata, parallela, submem- 

 branacea. i^<3mora le\'iterincrassata; tihice graciles ; tarsi lineares, 

 articulo tertio lobis angustis. Coxce anticae fere contigiiae, modice 



