302 REVUE ET MAGASIN DE ZOOLOGIE, 1876. 



TOMYRIS 



Ghapuis, Gen. Col. X, p. 265 (ISTfé). 



Odontionopa, Erichs. Wiegm. Arcli. 1842, pag. 232. 



ToMYRis viRiDULA fEilchs. Beitrag zur Insectenfauna 

 van Yandiemensland, in Wiegm. Arch. 4842, p. 232, 



suh Colaspis {odontionopa). 



Tasmania. 



ToMYRis PROXiMA (Erichs. Beitrag. etc., in Wiegm. 

 Arch. 1842, p. 233, sub Colaspis (odontionopa). 



Tasmania. 



SPH^ROPIS 



Ghevrolat, in Dej. Cat. éd. 3, p. 434 (sine cliaract.) 



Corpus breviter oblongo-ovatum, pilis adpressis dense 

 undique vestitum. 



Caput parvum, usque ad oculos vixin thoracem immer- 

 sum ; epistomate sulcis duobus obliquis a fronte separato, 

 antice semicirculariter emarginato ; palpis maxillaribus 

 articule ultime ovato, apice subobtuso; oculis rotundatis, 

 integris, valde prominentibus. 



Antennœ robustœ, dimidio corporis breviores, arti- 

 culis 2-6 longitudine œqualibus, quinque ultimis paulo 

 longioribus, incrassatis, subcompressis et clavam elon- 

 gatam formantibus. 



Prolhorax paulo latior quamlongior, superne convexus, 

 antice fere recte truncatus, lateribus subrotundatis, a basi 

 ad apicem modice convergentibus, angulis anticis delïexis, 

 obtusis. 



Scutellum semicirculare. 



Elytra breviter oblongo-ovata, prothorace basi paulo 

 latiora. 



Prosternum inter coxas augustatum, ibique longitudi- 



