472 ant. F. v. PAscoK ok the cueculioniw^e. 



■ meris promiueiitibus. Pedes mediocres ; femora clavata ; tibite 

 anticsB intus sinuatse, baud uncinata? ; tarsi angusti, art. tertio 

 vix lobato, ultimo clavato; ungtiiculi liberi. Abdomen seg- 

 mentis duobus basalibua peramplis, sutura prima arcuata, 



Allied to tbe European DicJiotrachelus, wbicli it closely re- 

 sembles in habit, but differentiated, infer alia, by the presence of 

 a scutellum, the large size of the second abdominal segment, &c. 

 The species desci*ibed below came, I believe, from the Count of 

 Castelnau's collection, and is said to be from the " interior." 



Zephryne sordida. (PI. XIX. fig. 12.) Z. supra squamositate 

 grisea- fuscaque varia, setulis curvatis interjectis; rostro apice nigro, 

 nudo ; antennis testaceis, leviter piibescentibus ; prothorace oblongo, 

 apice elevato, medio angiiste longitudinaliter depresso ; scutello sub- 

 triangulari ; elytiis apice subito declivibus, singulis tricostatis, costis 

 tuberculatis, intima duobus, sccunda tribus tuberculis majoribus 

 postice instructis, interstitiis costarum rude biseriatim punctatis, hu- 

 nieris angulato-productis, fascia curvata pallidiore ad suinmum declivi- 

 tatis sita ; corpore infra griseo, segmentis duobus basalibus abdo- 

 minis grosse punctatis J pedibus fusco-testaceis, griseo-squamulosis. 

 Long. 2 lin. 



Ilab. Australia. 



Dysostines. 



(Rhy parosominaj. ) 



Caput parvum ; rostrum parum difforme, breviusculum, supra 

 arcuatum, subplanatum, apicem versus gradatim latins ; scrohes 

 subapicales, laterales, latissimoe, oculos attingentes. Oculi 

 rotundati, antice distantes. Antenncs sat validse, scapo gra- 

 datim incrassato, prothoracem attingente ; funiculo 7-articulato, 

 art. 1° 2°que elongatis, caeteris turbinatis *, subaequalibus ; clava 

 ovali. Protliorax transvei'sus, antice tubulatus, lateribus valde 

 rotundatus, basi truncatus, lobis ocularibus hand productis. 

 Scutellum distinctum. Elytra prothorace baud breviora, le- 

 viter convexa, breviuscula, postice sensim angustata, humeris 

 productis. Pedes validi ; femora medio incrassata ; tibice ar- 

 cuata?, apice intus acuminatse ; tarsi articulo primo elongato, 

 secundo angustato, tertio late bilobo, ultimo elongato ; ungui- 

 culi liberi ; cox(£ anticae, magnse, baud contiguse. Metasternum 

 breve. Abdomen segmento basali ampliato, secundo duobus 



f Theso five joints arc wrongly represented in llie figure (!«). 



