560 Mr. Francis P. Pascoe's Notes on 



mediocres, remote divisi, supra distantes. Antennce remotae 

 setacese, articulo basali brevi, curvato, tumido, tertio 

 cseterisque subaequalibus. Palpi breves, obtusi. Prothorax 

 elongatus, antice latior, postice constrictus. Elytra parellela. 

 Pedes breves ; coxce anticsa elongates, contiguse ; femora in- 

 crassata. Corpus gracile. 

 This genus appears to be allied to Obr'ium, although its head 

 is so vertical as almost to bring it into the Saperdoid group (near 

 Stenostola, for instance), were it not for other characters, such as 

 the absence of emargination on the intermediate tibiae, and the ob- 

 tuse palpi. The insect is i-emarkable for its swollen front, which 

 merges above into the two large antennary tubers. 



]. Phalota tenella. (PI. XXIII. fig. 1.) 



P. fusca, subnitida, vix pubescens ; elytris basi aliquando 

 luteis. 



Port Denison. 



Dark-brown or black, with scarcely any piiosity, the head, 

 prothorax and pectus luteous yellow, shining ; head with a few 

 scattered punctures, short, subvertical, bulging out in front, the 

 antennary tubers large, separated at the base by a considerable 

 concavity ; eyes rather small, divided, the two portions widely 

 apart, the upper smallest, and remote from its fellow ; mandibles 

 small, nearly vertical ; antennae as long as or longer than the body, 

 the basal joint rather short and slightly curved, tumid, the rest, 

 except the second, more or less equal ; palpi short, obtuse ; 

 prothorax irregularly and very sparsely punctured, nearly twice as 

 long as broad, and as broad as the head for three-fourths of its 

 length, when it suddenly contracts ; scutellum rounded ; elytra a 

 little depressed, coarsely and rather thickly punctured, the base 

 sometimes more or less luteous ; body beneath glossy black, the 

 pectus luteous ; legs with a slight tint of luteous. 



Length 2| lines. 



Genus Cl^adne. 



Caput breve, fronte transversira quadrata. Oculi reniformes. 

 Antenncs elongatae, setaceee, 11-articulatae, basi distantes, 

 articulo primo breviter obconico, tertio quarto longiore, cae- 

 teris subsequalibus, ultimo vix distincto. Palporum articulo 

 ultimo ovato. Prothorax ovatus. Elytra angustata. Pedes 

 sub-elongatae, femora clavata, tarsi breves. Prosternum mi- 

 nutum, compressum. 



In my M.S. Catalogue of Australian Lorigicornia I have placed 



