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Parcels for transmission to the Royal Society of South Australia, from Europe and America, should be addressed “*“per W. C. Rigby, care Messrs. Thos. Meadows & (Co.,; - 35, Milk Street, Cheapside, London.” meoroGcicAL NoTES ON THE CLIFFS SEPARATING ALDINGA AND MYPONGA BAYS. By Epwarp Vincent Crark, B.Sc. [Communicated by Pror. Tare. | [Read November 7, 1899. ] _ Travelling southwards along the coast from the Port Willunga Jetty, the Eocene and overlying Miocene both dip downwards, and after a mile or so the, Eocene disappears beneath the sand strand ; about half a mile further on the Miocene also reaches to sea-level. Both sets of beds are last seen as reefs between low and high water, but as the dip of the Miocene is the smaller, the reef formed by it is much larger than that of the Eocene, extend- ing a considerable distance both seawards and southwards on the shore, and also a good deal further below sea-level. It is last seen about two miles from Port Willunga Jetty, but is visible somewnat further if the sand has been swept by a storm. The Post-miocene clays which cap the cliffs then,gradually give way to sandhills, which are well overgrown and contain a good percentage of calcic carbonate. The beach is broad, and above ordinary high tide is a bank of shingle, increasing in size as we go south, while the sandhills become smaller. Two miles (roughly) from where the Miocene reef disappears these are no longer covered with vegetation, and behind them is a lagoon in a basin that was formerly an arm of the sea, but which has been re- claimed by the shingle drifting up from the south and the sediment washed down from the Sellick’s Ranges. This lagoon is now fresh water, or only slightly brackish when full, but dries up nearly every summer. Dead shells of Coxiella confusa are in profusion in the silt. From this point the sandhills give place to a clayey deposit, still flanked by the bed of shingle (which is much coarser here), and rising somewhat rapidly in height—about one foot per chain. This clay bears a considerable likeness to the mottled clays over- lying the Miocene at Blanche Point and the jetty, with the exception that it contains a vast amount of gravel, arranged in more or less horizontal layers. This gravel is mainly of quartzite, shale, and ironstone ; and the pebbles are only slightly worn— most with the corners just taken off, but many quite angular, and a few well-rounded. Owing to the amount of gravel in this clay it will stand at a great inclination, and being by no means in 2 durated the wash of water has cut it into huge pinnacles, with sides nearly, if not quite, vertical. Where there happens to be little or no gravel, it stands at a much lower angle, and it is in such places that ‘the resemblance is seen to the clays further north. This clay is well seen for upwards of two miles, and before losing its distinctive character, where the Cambrian lime- stones begin, attains a height of 150 feet or more. Beyond this the clays do not form the escarpment, and so are not prominent, being seen occasionally at the top of the cliffs. As the ground slopes almost without a break from the top of the escarpment to the Sellick’s Ranges, these clays must be of immense volume. Some five and a half miles south of the jetty—a mile south of where these clays first replace the sandhills—is seen a small patch of Eocene polyzoal limestone at their base. ‘This bed is never visibly above 20 feet in height, and is about 600 yards long in all. Itis largely worn away at the base, and owing to this its thinness and the weight of the overlying clays—here 80 to a 100 feet in height—it is greatly broken about. The result is that the dip of the bed is hard to estimate, but seems to be five to seven — degrees to the south. That the dip is low is shown by the fact that a small extension of this bed as a reef presents a nearly flat surface, not a series of ridges, as is the case further south. This limestone is of a distinct yellowish tinge, and very pure, over 90 per cent. being soluble in acid, the balance being clay, not sand. It is made up almost entirely of polyzoa, with a fair number of other fossils, but most in such fragments as to be un- recognisable, or at any rate not in a condition to be removed from the rock, which is extremely friable, crumbling under very little pressure. It is greatly undermined by the sea, which reaches it whenever the tide is higher than usual. ‘The reef is, of course, much more indurated, or it could not exist. ; For three-quarters of a mile further after the last of this lime- stone the clays form the escarpment, owiny to their easy erosion somewhat back from the beach, and then Cambrian makes its appearance—mainly shale at first. The Cambrian strata here dip at an angle of 75° to the north-west, but the inclination is not well-shown, as, while the coast faces about west, the escarp- ment is irregular, sloping back from the beach, and somewhat overgrown ; also devoid of distinct bands. Up to this point the coast has run pretty consistently north and south, there being a slight bay from the Miocene reef south- wards. Here it takes a sharp turn towards the west, and is henceforth very irregular. There is practically no more beach, the shore-line being either a reef or else piled up with detached boulders, with sometimes a few feet of sand interspersed with rocky debris at the foot of the escarpment. 3 Three hundred yards further on Eocene again appears over- lying the Cambrian. It is here, however, much inclined, dipping to the N.N.W. at an angle of 50° at first, increasing to 65°, and finally diminishing to 45°. It extends seawards for a short dis- tance as a reef, but owing to the high dip itis of no great breadth. Due, however, also to the great inclination, it is extremely regular, and for a 150 yards or so where the cliffs take a bend and run approximately parallel to the direction of strike (W.S.W.) it consists of a series of ridges, parallel to each other and to the shore. One ridge in particular, though only two feet wide, is so uniform that it was keeping the sea inside at a height of 15 to 18 inches higher than outside. In this the reef is very different to that at the small patch of Eocene rocks to the north, and to the reefs south of the Port Willunga Jetty and at Blanche Poiut. In these cases, where the dip of the rocks is low, the reef either presents a fairly level surface or, if the rock is not quite uniform, a labyrinthine outcrop, the projecting lines of greatest resistance to wear turning and twisting about extremely irregularly, as is so well seen in the Miocene reef at Schnapper Point, south of Port Willunga Jetty. Opposite to these ridges the face of the cliff is peculiar; as it is approximately parallel to the line of strike, one would expect it to reveal the strata in horizontal bands, but, again owing to -the high dip, every projection of a few feet causes a considerable depression in the position of the band on the face of the cliff, and in the same way every recession of a few feet causes a corresponding elevation. The result is that, seeing the escarpment here alone, one would go away with the impression that the strata were highly contorted. These Eocene beds reach to a considerable height—at their southern extremity over a hundred feet; but are not so high further north. The lithological character is considerably ditferent from that of the bed before mentioned (though containing pretty much the same fossils), and approaches more nearly to that of the Hocene to the south of the Port Willunga Jettv. The rock is not nearly so full of polyzoa, and yields only 60-70 per cent. soluble in acid, the balance being partly sand, partly clay. It is also more in- durated, in places being very hard. Here again fossil collecting is of very little use, everything being broken, and obtainable in fragments only. After being absent from the face of the cliff for about three- quarters of a mile, the Cambrian again is seen at the foot of the “escarpment beneath the Hccene, which extend for about a 100 yards further, their last appearance in the cliff being at an alti- tude of over a 100 feet. The Eocene reef extends for perhaps a - 150 yards more, but after that, as far as I was able to go (about four miles measured along the coast, though much less as the crow flies) no more was visible The cliffs here, at the end of the Eocene, are of great height, but it is hard to say exactly what. The top of the escarpment is not well defined, and from there the ground slopes directly up to the Sellick’s Ranges. Quite close to the cliff, though not right at its edge, I was at an elevation of a 180 feet. The Cambrian near here dips at an angle of 65° to 70° to the north, the westerly strike being very clearly shown by the bands of quartzite standing out on a small reef at the foot of the escarp- ment. This reef protects the cliff from the sea’s action, and therefore there is here very little loose rock on the shore-line, and the high-water mark is shown by a line of sand some 20 feet wide. Further south the inclination is greater, but still in the same direction. Here the rocks dip at an angle of 75° at the top of the escarpment (here a 100 feet high), and at the base they are vertical or even slightly inclined in the opposite direction, though but a very small part shows this-inversion. A little further still the dip is 80°, and strike (as shown by the reef on the beach) W. by 8S. This reef extends very little further—less than three-quarters of a mile altogether—and after that the beach, or rather the shore-line, presents a tangled mass of boulders. These are some of quartzite, well-rounded, and very smooth ; some of a calcareous nature, worn into sharp spikes and projections, painful to walk on; and others, which present the most peculiar appearance, composed of black ferruginous dolomite, which wears away along the lines of stratification. into amygdaloidal holes, into which pebbles have often been forced, and too coarse to be seen in hand specimens. This rock does not appear on the face of the cliff, but is very plentiful on the shore-line, not only along here, but also right back to where the Cambrian first appears. Masses of ironstone are also to be met with occasionally. After the end of the Cambrian reef the cliffs are not nearly so fine, seldom presenting a bold escarpment to the sea, but sloping back somewhat, with frequently a surface coating of clayey soil carrying vegetation. The rock itself, which crops out frequently, also becomes more calcareous in nature. The dip is, therefore, hard to obtain, as even where a fair section is shown there is no reef to show the strike, which is highly important with such a great dip. Occasionally, where the cliff slopes back more than. usual, the shore-line becomes more pebbly, with fewer great boulders; and in a few spots a small patch of sand was to be met with. Also, at intervals, there is a jutting point of rock extend- ing right up to the sea, making it difficult to pass, and this. appeared to be more frequently the case towards Myponga. _ 9) The cliffs here, as mentioned above, are more calcareous than further north (especially the jutting paints), where they are mostly pink, purple, brown, or black shales, with bands of quartzite, highly coloured by iron. It is by these quartzite bands that the dip is most apparent, the shales showing stratification lines very poorly. The following. are the distances of the various distinctive points of the coast from the Port Willunga Jetty, as measured by cyclometer :— Distance S. of Port Willunga Jetty. End of Miocene reef .. (say) 2 miles End of thickly-clothed sandhills Aes Beginning of gravelly clays.. 44 « Appearance of Eocene rocks — 5S * Disappearance of Hocene rocks 5L « Appearance of Cambrian 62 “ Disappearanceof Cambrian and reappear- ance of Eocene (here highly inclined 62 “ Reappearance of Cambrian ... im 4“ aaa Final disappearance of Eocene re dees mee End of Cambrian reef ts Si “ As mentioned before, fossils are very ; dificult to collect, owing to their being nearly all in fragments. The following, erer er, I have i gauiad — From the first Eocene bed (of low inclination)— Cidaris sp. Lovenia Forbesii, Z’en.- Woods. Scutellina patella, Zate. Fibularia gregata, Tate. Antedon pertusa, Z'ate, m.s. Waldheimia sp. (indet.). From the second Eocene bed (of high inclination )— Cidaris sp. Echinus Woodsii, Lawobe. Lovenia Forbesii, Zen.- Woods. Fibularia gregata, Tate. EKchinolampas posterocrassus, Gregory. Pecten consobrinus, Z'ate. Waldheimia sp. (indet.). NEw MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA—MOSTLY FROM QUEENSLAND. By A. Jerreris Turner, M.D., F.E.S., Brisbane. [Read December 5, 1899. | XYLORYCTIDA. This family is now merged by Mr. Meyrick in the Gelechiade, but as the Australian Gelechiade, with the exception of this section, have not yet received systematic treatment, it is con- venient to retain the above designation for the present. The present contribution is supplementary to my paper on the “Queensland Xyloryctide,” in the Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 4, 1897. PILOSTIBES, Meyr. Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked or coincident, 7 to costa. On reconsideration, | have determined to retain this genus, altering the definition as above, and regarding P. enchidias, Meyr., as the type; referring P. stigmatias, Meyr., to Xylorycta. PILOSTIBES TRACHYPTERA, ”. Sp. Female, 40 mm. Head brown-whitish. Palpi brown-whitish ; terminal joint and apex of second joint white. Antenne grey. Thorax brown-whitish. Abdomen whitish. Legs brown-whitish ; anterior tibiz and tarsi much thickened with scales. Forewings posteriorly dilated, costa rather strongly arched, apex round-_ pointed, hindmargin straight, slightly oblique; veins 7 and 8 coincident ; brown-whitish, suffused with reddish-brown and fuscous-brown, with five or six tufts of raised scales; a dark- fuscous oblique mark on costa at one-fourth ; paler fuscous marks on costa at middle, three-fourths, and two more between last and apex ; an ill-defined blackish streak in disc above middle, and . several fine blackish streaks along veins in posterior portion of disc ; cilia brown-whitish, with an incomplete darker basal line. Hindwings brown-whitish ; cilia whitish, at apex pale fuscous. A very distinct species, apparently referable here, but the- male is wanted to establish this with certainty. The raised tufts of scales on forewings are a peculiar character. Palmwoods, Queensland (60 miles north of Brisbane); one specimen taken by Mr. R. H. Relton. » ( CRYPTOPHAGA BALTEATA, Walk. Male. Zrtna balteata, Walk., Suppl., 1841. Female. Cryptophaga lurida, Meyr., Proc. Roy. Soc., S.A., KeUO, p. 37. Both sexes Cryptophaga acrolewca, Turner, Annals Queensland Museum, 1897, p. 8. T am indebted to Mr. Meyrick for this synonymy. CRYPTOPHAGA OPALINA, 2. sp. Antennal pectinations in male extremely short (one-half), cilia in tufts from pectinations. Veins 6 and 7 of hindwings separate, but closely approximated at base. Male, 29 mm. Head whise. Palpi white; base of second joint fuscous externally. Antenne dark-fuscous, with a few scattered whitish scales ; basal joint white. Thorax white, with a few scattered dark-fuscous scales in patagia, and a large pos- terior dark-fuscous spot with purple reflections. Abdomen whitish ; bases of segments partly ochreous-brown. Legs white ; anterior and middle tibiz and tarsi dark-fuscous, annulated with white. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin scarcely oblique, rounded beneath ; white ; a moderately broad fascia from costa near base, narrowing to inner-margin at one-fourth, produced along costa to base, near costa grey, thence dark-fuscous with purple reflections ; an in- complete interrupted line posterior and parallel to this, dark- fuscous with purple reflections ; a large fascia from costa before middle, much dilated in disc and on inner-margin, on costa and on posterior margin grey, the remainder a ‘medley of dark- fuscous with purple reflections, ochreous-brown, and white scales ; a broad grey line parallel to hindmargin ; separted by a fine white line from a broad grey line on margin ; cilia dark-fuscous, with a narrow basal white line, at anal angle wholly white. Hindwings grey; towards inner-margin whitish; cilia white, with a basal grey line along anterior half of hindmargin and around apex. A very distinct and highly beautiful species. The extremely short antennal pectinations render it difficult to distinguish from Lichenaula. Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen at light in November. XYLORYCTA ASSIMILIS, 7”. sp. Female, 26 mm. Head white, side tufts and face ochreous” tinged. Palpi whitish ochreous ; second joint with a few dark- fuscous scales; terminal joint whitish. Antenne whitish- ochreous, annulated with dark-fuscous; base of first joint dark -fuscous on upper surface. Thorax white, anteriorly 8 ochreous tinged. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs .ochreous ; anterior pair infuscated. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, oblique ; snow-white ,; costal edge pale-ochreous throughout; a faint ochreous suffusion at anal angle; cilia wholly pale-ochreous. Hindwings whitish-ochreous ; apical portion of disc greyish- tinged ; cilia pale-ochreous. This resembles and might be mistaken for Meodrepta (Xylorycta) luteotactella, Walk., but may be at once distin- guished by the neuration, vein 8 of forewings running to costa, and not to hindmargin, as in that species. It also differs in the absence of orange coloration of face and palpi, and in the ochreous hindwings. Sydney, New South Wales ; ; one specimen taken in October by Mr. G, Lyell. The type is in his collection. XYLORYCTA ACROCHROA, 7. sp. Female, 20 mm. Head and thorax snow-white. Palpi white. Antenne whitish-ochreous ; basal joint white. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish-ochreous ; posterior -tibiz and tarsi white. Fore- wings elongate-oblong, aoste slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, oblique; snow-white ; a narrow ochreous streak along costa from before middle to three-fourths, slightly broader towards apex, where it ends in a short, very oblique fuscous streak ; a small triangular orange-ochreous spot on costa just before apex, bounded beneath by a fuscous line ; cilia snow- white, at apex tipped with fuscous, and with a dark-fuscous bar at one-third. Hindwings whitish grey ; cilia white. Conspicuously distinct among the species with white forewings by the apical markings. Mount Tambourine (1,8V0 feet), Queensland ; one specimen in November. ZAUUCLOPHORA, x. g. Head smooth. Tongue moderate. Antenne moderate, in male shortly bipectinated throughout, basal joint moderate with- out pecten. Labial palpi very long, recurved ascending, second joint much exceeding base of antenne, terminal joint shorter than second, acute. Maxillary palpi very short, appressed to tongue. Thorax smooth. Abdomen moderate. Anterior and middle tibize smooth-scaled, posterior tibie rough-haired. Forewing with vein 2 from two-thirds, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin, 8 to apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings over 1, veins 3 and 4 ~ short-stalked, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 approximated at base. A development of Lichenaula, from which it is distinguished by the pectinated antenne of the male. From Cryptophaga it differs in the much longer palpi, more slender abdomen, and smoother anterior and middle tibie. 9 ZAUCLOPHORA PELODES, 7. sp. Male, 23 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-brown. Palpi dark-fuscous ; posterior aspect whitish-ochreous. Antenne dark- fuscous. Abdomen reddish-ochreous ; apices of segments whitish- ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous; first two pairs dark-fuscous anteriorly. Forewings elongate, costa. moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin slightly rounded, oblique ; ochreous-brown, with ill-defined ochreous-whitish markings; an ochreous-whitish _suffusion in disc; an outwardly curved line from costa at two- thirds to anal angle ; two ochreous-whitish spots at and before apex, separated by a fuscous spot; hindmargin and anal angle irrorated by fuscous scales ; cilia ochreous-whitish, irrorated with fuscous. Hindwings fuscous; towards base suffused with ochreous; cilia whitish-ochreous, with a faint fuscous line at apex and at anal angle. The type is in poor condition, but the species is a very distinct one. Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen received from Mr. H. Tryon. LICHENAULA AMBLYGONA, 7. sp. Female, 28 mm. Vein 7 of forewings to hindmargin. Head white. Palpi white; terminal joint mostly fuscous internally. Thorax fuscous, irrorated with white scales. Abdomen ochreous- fuscous. Legs whitish, irrorated with fuscous, except posterior tibie. Forewings dilated posteriorly, costa strongly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate; white rather densely irrorated with fuscous; a triangular fuscous suftusion on inner- margin before middle; a short longitudinal suffused mark in disc before middle ; a very distinct outwardly oblique line from costa at two-thirds, angulated in disc, and continued parallel to hindmargin to inner margin at three-fifths; an indistinct suffusion on middle of hindmargin ; cilia fuscous, at apex white, at anal angle with white apices. _ Hindwings pale-grey, towards base whitish ; cilia grey. Distinguished from the other species with an angulated posterior line—Z. oxygona, Luc.; ZL. goniodes, Turn., and L. micradelpha, Turn., by the fuscous thorax. Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen taken by Mr. F. P. Dodd. I am indebted to Lord Walsingham for permission to describe this species, of which the type is now in his collection. LACHENAULA INSCRIPTA, Zurn. Annals Queensiand Mus., 1897, No. 4, 21. Male, 19mm. Head and thorax white. Palpi white, apex of second joint slightly fuscous-tinged. Antenne dark-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous ; first two rings and apices of segments white ; 10 tuft ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish; anterior pair fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin sinuate, moderately oblique; white; markings fuscous ; costal edge dark-fuscous towards base, thence ochreous- tinged; a dot on fold at two-fifths; two small dots placed transversely in disc at two-thirds, an outwardly oblique line from costa at two-thirds, narrowing in disc, abruptly bent, and continued suffusedly to anal angle; three dots on apical third of costa ; a suffused hindmarginal line, leaving hind- marginal edge white ; five or six fine blackish lines, parallel to veins, running into hindmargin ; cilia fuscous, darker at apex, with an indistinct whitish median line. Hindwings grey, towards base and at apex whitish ; cilia whitish. Female, 26 mm. Abdomen wholly whitish. Forewings with angulated line replaced by a broad fuscous suffusion, prolonged along fold towards base, its posterior edge sharply defined. Differs from L. oxygona, Luc., by the ground colour not being greyish, and by the numerous longitudinal blackish lines running into hindmargin ; also by the dot on fold. Its place in my tabulation should be altered accordingly. The type was wasted. I have since taken a very perfect male on Mount Tambourine (1,800 ft.), Queensland, in November, and have recived a female taken at Brisbane from Mr. H. Tryon. LICHENAULA THOLODES, %. Sp. Female, 18-21 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi purplish-fuscous, irrorated with whitish ; internal surface of palpi mainly whitish. Antenne dark-fuscous. Abdomen grey; tuft whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior femora, and anterior and middle tibize dark- fuscous, irrorated with whitish : anterior tarsi dark-fuscous, with whitish annulations. Forewings obiong, costa moderately arched at base, thence nearly straight, apex rectangular, hindmargin slightly sinuate, scarcely oblique; purplish-fuscous, densely irrorated with whitish, less so along a line from base to anal — angle; cilia fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin sinuate beneath apex ; grey ; cilia pale-grey, with a darker basal line. Allied to Z. ignota, Turn., from which it differs in the purplish- fuscous colouring and absence of markings. Brisbane, Queensland; two specimens taken at light in January and March. Maroca mytuica, Jfeyr. Maroga uwndosa, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1893, p. 164. I sent a specimen of Lucas’ species to Mr. Meyrick, who in- forms me that it is identical with his own. fel EscHATURA LEMURIAS, Meyr. Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc., 1897, p. 382. Phleophora codonoptera, Turner, Annals Queensland Museum, 1897, p. 23. Mr. Meyrick’s name has a few weeks’ priority. Whether my Phileophora lactea is referable to the same genus must be left undecided until the male is discovered. PROCOMETIS HYLONOMA, Jey. Procometis acompta, Turn. Annals Queensland Museum, No. IV., p. 30, and Procometis heterogama, Lower, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.8.W., 1899, p. 103, are identical with this species. Brisbane, Stradbrooke Island, and Warwick, Queensland ; Broken Hill, New South Wales. Probably, therefore, a species of very wide distribution. Meyrick records it from Sydney and Bathurst, New South Wales; and Kangarco Island, South Australia. AGRIOPHARA NODIGERA, 2. sp. Female, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennz ochreous- whitish, irrorated with fuscous. Palpi very short, not reaching halfway to base of antenne, terminal joint minute. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous. Legs whitish, sparsely irrorated with fuscous ; tarsi and anterior tibize annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate-oval, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; whitish, densely irrorated with dark- fuscous, with roundish raised tufts of blackish scales; three in a line from beneath costa at one-sixth to above inner-margin at one-third ; three or four in an oblique line from costa at one- third to above middle of inner-margin ; just outside this is an ochreous-brown spot in dise before middle ; a more obscure curved line of raised dots from costa at one-half to above and before anal angle ; just beyond this is an ochreous-brown spot in disc at two- thirds ; a very obscure series of dots parallel to hindmargin, not raised ; cilia fuscous, with a few whitish scales, and a darker line at one-third. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia grey, with a darker line at one-third. I do not think it necessary to remove this species from Agriophara, with which it agrees in neuration, but the peculiar palpi constitute a new section of this genus. The markings are obscure, but the raised blackish dots are characteristic. Warwick, Queensland ; one specimen in October. GiCOPHORID/A. The genera here treated of belong to the section of the family without male antennal ciliations, formerly regarded as a separate family, under the name of Depressariade. 12 PEDOIS, Meyr. (MSS.). Head with appressed scales, side tufts forming a cone-like projection over face. Antenne in male simple, pecten absent. Palpi long, second joint exceeding base of antenne, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, acute. Forewings elongate- oblong, 1 b furcate at base, from junction branching again, lower branch terminating abruptly before reaching margin, 2 and 3 from before anal angle, 6 to apex or costa, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa. Hindwings 1 or slightly over 1, veins 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 parallel. Posterior tibiz long-haired. I have hepa Sener ees of six species, which may be tabulated thus— 1. Vein 6 to costa Bet wee as Ze Vein 6 to apex on 3: 2. Forewings with long streaks parallel to veins... tripunctella, Walk. Forewings without long streaks parallel to veins — cosmopoda, un. sp. 3. Second joint of palpi with a minute posterior tuft before apex newrosticha, Lower Second joint of palpi without a minute ‘posterior tuft before apex ... Bs Sc ay 4, 4. Hindwings yellow _... iui ss ... eurnorpha, Meyr. Hindwings not yellow : my nih 5. 5). Forewings orange-ochreous ... ek .. humerana, Walk. Forewings reddish ... za = .. Thodomita, n. sp. PEDOIS HUMERANA, Walk. Armidale (3,500 ft.) and Tenterfield (3,000 ft.), New South Wales, in February. PEDOIS EURNORPHA, Meyr. (MSS.). Armidale (3,500 ft.), New South Wales, in October. PEDOIS NEUROSTICHA, Lower. Ero) ENOysS0G., OA. US I4apos |) 2. Gisborne, Victoria, in January; two specimens received from Mr. 8. Lyell. PEDOIS TRIPUNCTELLA, Walk. Brisbane, Queensland, in August and September. PEDOIS COSMOPODA, %. sp. Male and female, 16-18 mm. Head and thorax grey, irrorated with whitish-grey ; face whitish. Palpi whitish ; second joint with a dark-fuscous subapical ring, and dark-fuscous basal and medium bars on external surface ; terminal joint dark-fuscous anteriorly, posteriorly pinkish-tinged. Antenne whitish, pinkish- tinged, annulated with dark-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs whitish ; anterior and middle tibie pinkish, annulated with dark-fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched 13 at base, thence straight, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; whitish-grey irrorated with dark-fuscous ; costal edge pink from base to apex; the irroration is particularly dense along inner-marginal portion of disc, and in posterior portion of disc shows a tendency to form short streaks parallel to veins ; cilia whitish, faintly pinkish-tinged, with traces of a medium fuscous line. Hindwings grey, paler towards base; cilia grey. Closely allied to P. tripunctella, Walk, from which it differs in the absence of long discal streaks and the well-marked pink colour of costa and legs. Sandgate and Wynum, near Brisbane, Queensland; four specimens in August. PEDOIS RHODOMITA, 7. Sp. Male, 19 mm. Head whitish, suffused with vinous-red. Palpi whitish ; second joint externally suffused with dark-fuscous ; terminal joint reddish-tinged ; anterior and internal surface dark- fuscous, except at base and apex. Antenne reddish, with fine blackish annulations, beneath whitish. Thorax whitish-ochreous, reddish-tinged. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair reddish-tinged. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched at base, thence nearly straight, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; whitish, irrorated with reddish scales, which form numerous confused longitudinal streaks, a reddish-fuscous dot in disc before middle, a second beyond middle, and a third on fold beneath first; a series of reddish-fuscous dots on apical third of costa and hindmargin ; cilia reddish. Hindwings grey, cilia whitish. Allied to P. neurosticha, Lower; very distinct by the reddish colouring. Mt. Tambourine, Queensland ; one specimen taken in January by Mr. C. J. Wild. PERITORNENTA, Meyr. (MSS.). Head with appressed scales. Palpi long, second joint much exceeding base of antennz, terminal joint shorter than second, rather stout, acute. Antenne as long, or nearly as long, as forewings ; in male simple, pecten absent. Forewings shlone g, with much-rounded apex ; | b furcate at base, 2 from close before angle, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings 1, veins 3 and 4 stalked, 7 widely separate from 6 at base, somewhat approxi- mated in disc, then slightly diverging. I have three species referable here— 1. Hindwings ochreous ... tek ss .. cerculatella, Walk. Speere nes not ochreous 2. . Forewings with a series of blackish dots from base to costa at beyond middle .. .. stigmatias, n. sp.' Forewings without a series of blackish dots from pase to costa at beyond middle aD .. thyela, Meyr. 14 PERITORNENTA CIRCULATELLA, Walk. Brisbane, Queensland, in October. PERITORNENTA THYELLIA, Meyr. (MSS.). Brisbane, Queensland. PERITURNENTA STIGMATIAS, 1. Sp. Male, 17-19 mm. Head and thorax pale-fuscous ; face whitish. Palpi whitish ; terminal joint pale-fuscous, except on internal surface. Antenne whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish; anterior tibiz and tarsi pale-fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched at base, thence nearly straight, apex obtusely rounded, hindmargin rounded, scarcely oblique ; pale-fuscous, with numerous dark-fuscous dots arranged in rows on veins; a line of dots from base to costa beyond middle ; a second row from base to inner-margin beyond middle ; eight rows in posterior portion of disc; cilia whitish. Hindwings grey, towards base whitish ; cilia whitish. Brisbane and Mt. Tambourine, Queensland ; two specimens in November and January. SCORPIOPSIS SUPERBA, Zurn. Proc. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1894, p. 133. I have seen a second specimen of this species taken by Mr. C. J. Wild on Mount Tambourine, Queensland, in February, and now in the Queensland Museum. PLUTELLID~. EN==MIA Dives, Walk. Lactura dives, Walk., Bomb, 486. Calligenia pilcheri, Lucas, Proe: inn .Soec:, NSW Soi: 279. Rockhampton, Bundaberg, and Brisbane, Queensland. ENZMIA MIXOLEUCA, 7. sp. Female, 18-19 mm. Head white. Palpi dark-fuscous; ter- minal joint white. Antenne grey; towards apex whitish-grey. Thorax dark-fuscous ; apex of patagia and a large posterior spot white. Abdomen reddish-orange, beneath whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair dark-fuscous ; posterior tibize reddish-orange. Fore- wings elongate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; white ; markings dark- fuscous; a broad streak along costa from base to one-fifth; a~ fascia from middle of costa, much widened in disc and on inner- margin, where it extends from one-fourth to three-fourths, and includes a sinuate white bar, widest on margin, followed by a variably developed white dot; anterior edge of fascia strongly sinuate, and connected with costa streak ; a second fascia from 15 costa before apex to anal angle, moderately broad, inwardly curved, and enclosing a small white dot in disc; three dots on hindmargin beneath apex, tending to coalesce, and to be con- nected with second fascia ; cilia white, on markings dark-fuscous. Hindwings reddish-orange, with an apical fuscous blotch ; cilia on apical portion fuscous, with a darker line at one-third, towards anal angle reddish-orange. | Gympie, Queensland; three specimens taken by Mr. R. Illidge. CALLITHAUMA, n. g. Head with appressed scales, slightly projecting anteriorly. Palpi long; second joint exceeding base of antenne, smooth scaled, somewhat thickened towards apex ; terminal joint much shorter than second, slender, acute. Antenne in male simple, pecten absent. Thorax smooth. Forewings rather narrow, 1 b furcate at base, 2 from four-fifths, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings under 1, cilia two-thirds, veins 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 parallel. Posterior tibiz smooth-scaled. Male genitalia provided with a pair of long curved processes, arising from inferior surface and projecting upwards. CALLITHAUMA BASILICA, 7. sp. Male and Female, 12-13 mm. Head yellow, mixed with reddish on crown. Palpi orange; terminal joint whitish, with a broad subapical dark-fuscous ring. Antenne whitish, annulated with blackish; base of first joint reddish. Thorax reddish, mixed with pale yellow. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; anterior tibiz reddish. Forewings narrow elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; bright-red, mixed with purple-fuscous, markings clear yellow, edges of markings mostly clear red ; an oblique bar from base of costa; a moderate fascia from costa at one-fourth to inner margin before middle, broadest on costa, somewhat curved in disc; a dot on inner-margin beyond middle, a second dot in disc external to this—these show a variable tendency to connec- tion with a narrow fuscous-edged fascia from costa beyond middle to anal angle; a triangular spot on costa at four-fifths ; cilia yellow, at anal angle mixed with red. Hindwings whitish; cilia ochreous-whitish. Toowoomba and Killarney, Queensland; five specimens in September and October. PSHUDOTORTRIX, n. g. Head with appressed scales, side tufts rather small. Palpi short, recurved, not reaching base of antenne; second joint stout, with appressed scales; terminal joint very short, rather 16 stout, pointed. Antenne short (half), in male with short cilia- tions (half), pecten absent. Thorax smooth. Abdomen stout. Forewings posteriorly dilated, apex rectangular, hindmargin not oblique; vein I b furcate at base, 2 from near angle of cell, 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to hindmargin, 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind- wings over 1; vein 2 from angle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked. Posterior tibiz smooth-scaled. Iam indebted to Mr. Meyrick for indicating the correct posi- tion of the- following species, which superticially has a close resemblance to some of the Tortricide. PSEUDOTORTRIX ACOSMA, 7. sp. Male and female, 16-17 mm. Head and thorax brownish- fuscous. Palpi brownish-fuscous, internal surface of second joint white. Antenne whitish-ochreous, sometimes fuscous. Abdomen dark-fuscous or brownish-fuscous. Legs whitish. Forewings posteriorly strongly dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rectangular, hindmargin very slightly sinuate, rounded beneath, not oblique ; brownish-fuscous, posterior portion of disc sometimes suffused with brownish-ochreous; sometimes a small fuscous erect line on inner-margin at one-fifth; a very irregularly angled fuscous line from costa before middle to inner-margin beyond middie ; a fuscous dot in dise at two-thirds ; followed by two oblique fuscous lines from costa at three-fifths and four-fifths towards, but not reaching, anal angle and hindmargin respec- tively—all these markings may be obsolete ; sometimes a dark- | fuscous line close to upper three-fourths of hindmargin; cilia dark-fuscous, at anal angle paler. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia grey, towards apex with a darker line at one-third. Brisbane, Queensland ; from January to May six specimens. I have also a female specimen measuring 20 mm., with forewings suffused with pale-ochreous and without markings, taken near the Jenolan Caves, New South Wales, which may belong to the same specics. TINEID Zi. NEMOPHORA, JAiibner. This genus has not hitherto been recorded outside Europe, and I was in some doubt as to whether the first species here recorded should be referred to it, as in my solitary specimen the face is damaged and palpi broken. In a second closely allied species received from Mr. G. Lyell these parts are perfect. NEMOPHORA LEPTOSTICTA, 7, sp. Male, 13 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale-grey. Antenne over three, white. Legs whitish. Forewings pos- teriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, EG hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; white, with numerous pale- erey dots tending to form interrupted transverse strigule ; cilia white. Hindwings whitish-grey ; cilia white. Ballandean (2,500 ft.), Queensland ; one specimen in February, NEMOPHORA IOLAMPRA, 7. sp. Female, 16 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennz fuscous. Antenne over two. Abdomen grey. Legs pale-fuscous; posterior pair whitish. Forewings narrow-elongate, not dilated, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; pale-grey, with violet reflections; irrorated with fuscous scales, which tend to form transverse strigule; cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings and cilia whitish-grey. Gisborne, Victoria ; one specimen taken by Mr. G. Lyell in May. ZONOPS, n. 9. Head and face densely rough-haired. Hyes in male divided by a horizontal ridge of scales into upper and lower segments ; lower segments greatly enlarged, closely approximated beneath. Tongue short. Antenne very long in both sexes, about twice forewings, in male filiform, simple, basal joint with pecten present. Labial palpi moderate, second joint slender, with appressed scales ; terminal joint about one-half second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi absent. Posterior tibiz rough-haired. Forewings with vein 1 furcate, 2 from near angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa, 11 from before middle. Hindwings over 1, veins 3 and 4 connate, 5, 6, and 7 equidistant, parallel. The structure of the eyes in the male is very remarkable. The horizontal ridge of scales apparently serves to divide the field of vision of each eye into an upper and a lower part. ZONOPS HETEROLEUCA, %. sp. Male and female, 15-16 mm. Head, face, palpi, and antennze dark-fuscous ; fillet and bases of antennz whitish in female. Thorax dark-fuscous, patagia pale-fuscous; in female wholly pale-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous ; tuft in male white. Legs dark- fuscous, annulated with whitish ; posterior pair whitish-fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate, costa slightly arched, apex round. pointed, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; dark-fuscous, with a suffused whitish-grey line along fold, replaced in female by an oblong spot occupying basal two-fifths of inner-margin ; a snow- white blotch on costa from three-fourths to apex, containing a few dark scales, its anterior angle connected with a small white Spot in disc; in female the apical blotch is prolonged anterior beneath costa as far as disc at one-third; cilia whitish, mixed with pale-fuscous, with a dark-fuscous line at one-third. Hind- B 18 wings two, sinuate beneath apex ; dark-fuscous, in female grey ; cilia grey, with a dark-fuscous line at one-third. Brisbane, Queensland ; two specimens. XYSMATODONA POLYMERES, 7%. sp. Male, 16 mm. MHead ochreous-whitish. Palpi dark fuscous. Antenne dark-fuscous; basal jeint ochreous-whitish. Thorax dark-fuscous. Abdomen grey; tuft ochreous- whitish. Legs whitish; antorior pair dark-fuscous, with obscure whitish annula- tions. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin obliquely rounded; vein 7 absent; white ; markings dark-fuscous; a narrow basal fascia prolonged along costa to one-sixth ; an erect spot on inner-margin at one fourth ; a moderately broad fascia from costa at one-fourth to before middle of inner-margin, its anterior edge very irregular, deeply excavated in middle; a rather large triangular spot on costa beyond middle, its lower angle nearly meeting a narrow erect spot on anal angle; a triangular spot on costa before apex ; several small spots on hindmargin partly confluent; besides these markings there are a few scattered fuscous scales, and the species is probably. variable; cilia whitish, faintly ochreous- tinged, on spots bases are fuscous. Hindwings very pale- whitish-grey ; cilia whitish. It appears to resemble X. hamalitha, Meyr., but may be dis- tinguished by the wholly pale hindwings. Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in July. XYSMATODONA LENCERES, 7. sp. Female, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antenne white. Abdomen whitish-grey ; tuft whitish. Legs whitish-grey; pos- terior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex acute, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked ; white, with scattered whitish-grey scales, tending to form transverse strigule; cilia white. Hindwings very pale- whitish-grey ; cilia white. Closely allied to X. pelochra, Meyr., differing in its white colour. From X. nephelodes, Meyr., it may be distinguished by the neuration. Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in October. XYSMATODONA PELOCHRA, Meyr. The female is considerably paler in colour than the male, but otherwise similar. ARDIOSTERES SCOTEINA, 7%. Sp. Male, 22 mm. Head dark-fuscous. Palpi ochreous, mixed with dark ciliations ; fuscous, except towards base and at apex WG Antenne dark-fuscous. Thorax with a large posterior crest; dark-fuscous ; apex of patagia and two postero-lateral spots pale- ochreous. Abdomen dark-fuscous; beneath ochreous; tuft large, ochreous-whitish. Legs dark-fuscous, mixed with ochreous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa rather strongly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; dark-fuscous, with purplish iridescence; some _pale- ochreous scales near base; a pale-ochreous linear mark on costa at two-thirds, with a similar smaller dot beyond it; a whitish erect mark from inner-margin before middle, curving outwardly in disc ; a whitish spot on margin before anal angle; a whitish dot above anal angle, and two or three close to hindmargin above middle ; cilia dark-fuscous, with a whitish spot just below middle of hindmargin. Hindwings and cilia dark-fuscous. Mt. Tambourine (1,800 ft.), Queensland ; one specimen taken by Mr. Illidge in February. CHRYSORYCTIS OCHROXANTHA, 7. sp. Female, 15 mm. Head pale-yellowish. Maxillary paipi dark- fuscous. Labial palpi dark-fuscous; internal surface whitish. Antenne dark fuscous. Thorax dark-fuscous, with a small yellowish posterior spot. Abdomen fuscous. Legs pale-ochreous ; anterior and middle tibie and tarsi dark-fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; pale-yellowish; a well-marked dark- fuscous streak along costa nearly to middle, at base reaching inner-margin ; a pale-iridescent-purple fascia from costa at three- fourths, broadening beneath, bounded anteriorly by a fine fuscous, nearly straight line to inner-margin at two-thirds, pos- teriorly ill-defined, and reaching to lower part of hindmargin ; included in middle of fascia is a small oval yellowish spot, placed transversely, and edged by fuscous scales; a short broad dark- ‘fuscous streak beneath apex, extending through cilia ; some ill- defined hindmarginal fuscous dots above and _ below streak ; cilia whitish, beneath apex and at anal angle dark-fuscous. Hind- wings dark-grey, with bronzy reflections ; cilia grey. Distinguished by the pale colouring, large apical area not occupied by purplish band, and dark subapical streak. Brisbane, Qneensland ; one specimen in April. GRACILARIA PARALLELA, Z’urn.* Brisbane, from July to November; attached to Acacia Cunninghami and Acacia aulacocarpa. GRACILARIA LACINIELLA, Meyr. Very common in Brisbane from August to October, but * In the description of this species, for ‘* alternating” read ‘‘attenuating.” 20 smaller in size than specimens from Sydney. The larve are tapering posteriorly, of a pale-yellowish-green, and nine roundish blotches in the leaves of Hucalyptus prperita (2) and Eucalyptus eugeniordes, on which they are sometimes very abundant. GRACILARIA TRISTAINE, Turn. IT have bred this species also from Eugenia ventenatii. Like the preceding, the antenne are porrected in repose. Brisbane, from September to December. GRACILARIA OPHIODES, Zurn. I took four specimens, all larger and finer than the type, on a fence in Warwick, Queensland, in October. GRACILARIA POLYPLACA, Lower. Male and female, 10-12 mm. Differs from G. ida, Meyr., as follows :—Thorax crimson, with two whitish spots posteriorly, anterior portion wholly crimson. (In G. ida, thorax is whitish, with median and lateral reddish lines.) Forewings clear crimson, never suffused with grey ; two basal dorsal spots widely separate. (in G. ida these are usually, if not always, confluent); first costal streak absent, replaced by two discal spots; fourth and fifth costal streaks not touching, but separated by a band of ground. colour; black margins of fifth, sixth, and seventh costal streaks not reaching to costal edge. Closely allied to Gracilaria ida, Meyr., the description of. which includes both species, but certainly distinct; formerly described by myself as var. rosea. From Gracilaria formosa, Stt., as defined by Meyrick, it may be distinguished by absence: of pale-yellowish suffusion along costa, absence of spot on fold, and by most of the other points mentioned above. Brisbane, Queensland; taken abundantly from August to October, and again in April, attached to 7'ristania conferta and Tristania suaveolens. G.ida I have always found attached to Eucalyptus piperita (1), G. formosa to Hugenia ventenatir. GRACILARIA ALBICINCTA, 7. sp. Male, 84 mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous-brown. Maxil- lary palpi ochreous-whitish. Labial palpi ochreous-whitish ; second joint with an apical, termina: joint with a median and subapical dark-fuscous ring. Antenne longer than forewings, ochreous - whitish, annulated with dark-fuscous. Abdomen - ochreous-fuscous; beneath whitish. Legs whitish; apices of ' tarsal joints fuscous ; anterior and middle femora and tibiz and basal half of posterior femora dark-fuscous, mixed with brownish ; middle tibise much thickened with scales. Forewings reddish ochreous-fuscous, with scattered dark-fuscous scales; an out 21 wardly oblique whitish fascia before middle, edges parallel, well defined, with dark-fuscous scales; some half-dozen dark-fuscous dots in fascia; basal part of disc darker coloured than beyond fascia ; cilia dark-fuscous, with a whitish subapical line, at anal angle whitish. Hindwings and cilia dark-grey. Nearest G'. xylophanes, Turn., but very distinct by the oblique whitish fascia. Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in September, GRACILARIA LEPTALEA, 2. Sp. Male and female, 6-7 mm. Head and thorax whitish. Palpi white ; second joint with an apical, terminal joint with a median dark-fuscous ring. Antenne dark-grey. Abdomen dark-grey. Legs whitish ; apex of tarsal joints fuscous; anterior tibiz and first tarsal joints, outer aspect of distal portion of middle and posterior tibiae dark-fuscous. Forewings ochreous-fuscous; a white line along inner-margin, somewhat dilated at anal angle, much obscured by dark-fuscous scales, especially from one-fourth to middle; a fine line from costa at one-fourth, running closely beneath costa to three-fourths, there bent obliquely across disc to anal angle; its lower margin suffused with dark-fuscous, oblique portion edged on both sides with dark-fuscous ; middle third of costal edge narrowly white; an oblique white streak from costa before apex towards middle of hindmargin; cilia white, with a median and apical dark-fuscous line, on anal angle grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. A minute species, very distinct from any other I have seen. It cannot be G. albomarginata, Stt., which is a larger insect without oblique fasciz. Brisbane, Queensland ; six specimens on a fence in August and Neptember, almost certainly derived from Acacia Cunninghamii. ORNIX TRIGONOPHORA, ”. sp. Male and female, 10-11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne grey. Thorax white, sides fuscous-grey. Abdomen grey, tuft white. Legs white, annulated with grey ; anterior pair grey. Forewings narrow-elongate; fuscous-grey, markings white: a broad line along inner-margin, its posterior half containing several streaks of ground-colour ; three short oblique lines from costa at two-fifths, three-fifths, and four-fifths ; a straight fuscous line, with leaden metallic lustre from costa before apex to anal angle; a dark-fuscous line around margin at apex, enclosing with the preceding a triangular white area, within which is a greyish-ochreous blotch, containing a central blackish spot; cilia white, at apex with apices dark-fuscous, at anal angle grey. Hindwings and cilia grey. 29 Mt. Tambourine, Queensland ; a dozen specimens taken at one spot in November. ORNIX ACROBAPHES, 7. sp. Male, 11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne grey. Thorax grey (!). Abdomen grey, tuft white. Legs white, annulated with fuscous ; anterior pair mostly fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate ; grey, markings white, a broad streak along inner-margin, several very short streaks from costa; ante- apical portion of disc mostly white, containing two short parallel longi- tudinal dark-fuscous streaks ; apical portion white, enclosed in a triangular fuscous line, and containing a grey blotch, with central dark- fuscous spot ; cilia white, at apex with apices dark- fuscous, at anal angle grey. Hindwings grey, apical half intense black, the boundary line is irregular ; cilia grey. Closely allied to the preceding, but at once distinguished by the blackish hindwings. The type is not in perfect condition. Brisbane, Queensland : ; one specimen in January. LEIOPROBA, x. g. Head smooth. Tongue short. Antenne considerably over one, in male simple, basal joint dilated and concave beneath to form eyecap. Labial palpi short, filiform, drooping, pointed. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibie with short stiff hairs on upper surface. Forewings with 1 bfurcate at base, transverse vein rudimentary, 3 and 4 absent, 6, 7, and 9 stalked, 7 to costa, 8 absent. Hindwings linear, cell open, 3, 4, 5, and 6 absent. Allied to Lyonetia, Hb., and Phyllocnistis, Zel. Distinguish- able from the former by the smooth head, and from the latter by the long antennez, also by the neuration. LEIOPRORA ASCEPTA, 7. Sp. Male and female, 5-7 mm. Head ochreous-fuscous, face and palpi white. Antenne greyish, basal joint whitish. Thorax ochreous-fuscous. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish, anterior tibize and tarsi fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate ; ochreous-fuscous, with golden reflections ; an indistinct fuscous suffusion on base of inner-margin, and another on costa before middle ; a suffused fuscous line from inner-margin at two-thirds obliquely through disc to apex; cilia whitish, apices fuscous, at anal angle grey, with a blackish apical dot, edged towards costa with a few golden- metallic scales. Hindwings and cilia grey. Brisbane, Queensland ; taken rather commonly on fences from June to September. 23 OPOSTEGA NUBIFERA, ”. sp. Male, 8 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne greyish; basal joint white. Thorax white. Abdomen dark-grey. Legs whitish; anterior pair grey. Forewings elongate; white ; markings suffused greyish; two rather broadly suffused acutely angulated fascie, first before middle, second beyond middle, in- terrupted in disc; a rather broad grey line around apex and hindmargin ; cilia grey-whitish, at apex with basal half white, interrupted by a narrow oblique blackish bar. Hindwings and cilia grey. Resembles O. chalinias, Meyr., but distinguished by the wholly white head, and the rather broadly suffused markings without golden-fuscous-tinge. Toowoomba, Queensland ; one specimen in September. ELACHISTID A. STATHMOPODA MANNOPHORA, %. Sp. Male, 14 mm. MHead dark-fuscous; face white. Palpi, external surface dark-fuscous, internal surface white. Antenne whitish-ochreous. Thorax white, with a moderate posterior dark- fuscous spot. Abdomen grey; edges of segments and tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs pale-ochreous; anterior pair fuscous. Forewings white; a moderate dark-fuscous basal fascia; a moderate fuscous-brown fascia from costa at two-thirds to anal angle; cilia on costa whitish-ochreous, at apex fuscous, thence grey, becoming whitish-ochreous again on inner-margin. Hind- wings grey; cilia grey, towards base of inner-margin whitish- ochreous. Allied to S. pantarches, Meyr., but at once distinguished by the dark-fuscous head. Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in November, taken by Me EL Tryon. LoZOSTOMA ASEMA, 7. sp. Female, 10-11 mm. Head dark-fuscous, narrowly edged pos- teriorly with yellow; face and fillet whitish. Palpi whitis|i. Antenne whitish. Thorax bright-yellow. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; anterior pair fuscous. Forewings bright-yellow ; some- times a minute dark-fuscous dot in disc beyond middle; cilia bright yellow. Hindwings and cilia grey. Distinguished by the absence of marking. Brisbane and Mt. Tambourine, Queensland ; four specimens in October and November. NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDSKINS FROM KALGOORLIE, W.A. By Rospert HALL. [Communicated by Prorgssor E. C. Srreuine. | [Read April 3, 1900. ] Kalgoorlie, Alice Springs, and Derby are approximately 1,000 miles from each other, embracing a triangular-like mass of desert-land, of which the bases are about equal and not unlike. As we have a fairly good record of the birds of Derby and Central Australia, it remains for us to provide a list of what species are known to be associated with the South-West position. To Mr. Lindsay Cameron I am indebted for a nice collection of skins. From his memoranda I gather the country is very desert- like, as far as animal life is concerned. It is, in the main, flat, with low rounded hills every few miles, and is covered with short and dry eucalyptus-scrub some 15 feet high. Occasional Casuarinas are seen, with Salsolacez interspersed between the gums. Eucalypts, perhaps 50 feet high, are represented with their branches meagrely supplied with foliage. There appears to be no surface water away from the mining camps, which use it only when condensed. The numerous lacustrine beds hold water for a short time, and get it only after irregular thunder storms. “At the present time,” Mr. Cameron writes, “the Government of this colony is supplying us from a part some 300 miles distant.” From this information we may gather that water-birds will not be mentioned in this present “list, and that it is a land in which an Eastern man so much misses the organ-pipe strains of the Magpies (Gymnorhine) and the piping notes of the Magpie Lark (Grallina ). To deepen the interest, I supply some few field notes of per- sonal observation upon Eastern specimens of the same species. Those to which the asterisk is added have received notice by the Sir Thomas Elder Expedition, when above Kalgoorlie, and as recorded in the Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., XVI., p. 156. Highteen specimens of ten species are there noted as the total ornitho- logical results of that long journey. The Bower-bird (Chiamy- dodera guttata) appears to have been the most important find, and not before or since recorded as found in W.A. The Cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla) was at that time noted as well, this being one of three field observations in the West to date. Recorded now as found in West and South-West Australia is the yellow- 25 throated Minah (Manorhina flavigula). It has probably made its course from the centre of the Eyrean sub-region, where it has long been known to exist. The species received by myself are 33 in number. Mr. Cameron has noted in addition ten species. Of the ten species recorded by the Elder Expedition further North, seven are found near Kalgoorlie township. CERCHNEIS CENCHROIDES, Vig. and Hors. Tinnunculus cenchroides, V. and H.; zd., Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. L., pl. 13. Cerchneis cenchroides, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., I., p. 431 ; Hall, ‘“‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 3. Adult skin (unsexed), December, 1898. Bars on tail feathers almost obsolete. Both sexes take part in incubation, the male sitting in the hollow of another tree during the night and reliev- ing its mate in the task of incubation during the day. The young when ready to fly are without the yellow cere. HIERACIDEA ORIENTALIS, Schlegel. Meracidea berigora, Gould., Bds. Austr., fol. vol. I., pl. 11. Mreracidea orientalis, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. I., p. 422; Hall, ‘“‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 3. One juvenile skin received. PACHYCEPHALA GILBERTI, Gould. Pachycephala gilbertt, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. IL, pl. 71; Gadow, Brit. Mus, Cat. Bds., vol. VIII., p. 210; Hall, “ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 34. a. Skin, male, 16/10/98. This specimen does not show a black pectoral collar. 6. Skin, immature male, 26/9/99. Upper surface with a slight disposition to ashen grey on crown and back, throat and abdomen greyish-white, chest and breast grey, lores grey, wings greyish, tips of primaries being brown ; tail grey, upper-tail coverts clear grey, under wing coverts sandy buff. Length of wing, 3°75 ins.; tall o‘D ins.” i On September Ist a nest was found containing four eggs, three being the hitherto recorded number to a clutch. The nest was composed of small sticks and bark, the measurements being— Exterior diameter, 6 ins.; depth of cavity, 4 ins.; total depth, 6 ins.; depth of cavity, 2ins. Height of uest from ground, 5 feet. ACANTHIZA APICALIS, Gould. Acanthiza apicalis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl. 57 ; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VII, p. 296; Hall, ‘‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 25. Skin, adult male, 14/8/’98. It is a plentiful bird here. 26 SERICORNIS BRUNNEA, Gould. Pyrrholemus brunnea, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IIL., pl. 68- Sericornis brunnea, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VIT., p. 302 > id., Hall, ‘‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 26. Skin, adult male, 12/3/99. Zoc.—Golden Ridge. Micra@ca ASSIMILIS, Gould. Micreca assimilis, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IV., p. 124; Hall, “ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 13. Adult skin (unsexed), 16/10/’98. PoMATORHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS, Vig. and Hors. Pomatorhinus suyerciliosus, Gould, Bds. Aust., fol. vol. IV.; pl. 22; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. VII., p. 419; Hall “Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 29. a, 6. Male and female, 19/3/’99. ce, d. Immature skins, 17/1/99, 19/3/99. XEROPHILA, sp. The one skin received does not agree with any of the known species as described. X. /ewcopsis is the only species of the genus in Western Australia, and with that it has very little agreement. A provisional description was given by the writer in the “ Vic- torian Naturalist,” X VI., No. 2. CINCLOSOMA CASTANONOTUM,* Gould. Cinclosoma castanonotus, Geuld, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., Dio Cinclosoma castanonotum, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VIL, p. 333; Hall, “‘ Key to the Birds of Aust.,” p. 27. Adult skin, male, 2/12/98. The back and rump feathers are dull chestnut, compared with the rich chestnut of the Eastern birds in my cabinet. CLIMACTERIS RUFA, Gould. Climucteris rufa, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. 1V., pl 94s Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VIIL., p. 335; Hall, ‘‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 35. Adult skin, male, 24/7/98. The common tree-creeper of this district. CLIMACTERIS SUPERCILIOSA, Worth. Climacteris superciliosa, North, ‘Horn Exp. Cent. Aust.,” Zool., plate ; Hall, “‘ Vic. Nat.,” vol. X VI., No. 11; 2d., “ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p 309. . a. Skin, male, 30/10/98. 6. Skin, female, 24/11/98. IT am in receipt of askin from Nannine, N.W.A., and dated 30/7/99. It is probably a female, and shows the two central 27 tail feathers to be brown rather than grey, the colour of the upper tail coverts. PETR@CA BICOLOR, Vig. and Hors. Petroica bicolor, Gould., Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl. 7. Petreca bicolor, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IV., p. 173; Hall, “‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 14. Adult skin (not sexed), 11/12/98. The habits of this bird are very different to those of the other members of this family, and one would scarcely know it to belong to the Robins. It pipes its trilling notes from early to late, and when other Robins are in the shade, this is most actively chasing and capturing grasshoppers. It freely associates with other birds (as the Artamide). Amongst birds in general, there appears to be security in numbers. PETRECA GOODENOVII, Vig. and Hors. Petroica goodenovi, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl. 5. Petreca goodenovi, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, vol. IV., p- 171; Hall, ‘‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 13. a. Adult skin, male, 20/1/’99. c. Skin, juv. male, Dec., 1898. 6. Immature skin. d. Skin, juv. female, Dec., 1898. (a). It is blacker on the throat and duller on the breast than the Hastern skins in my collection. The forehead ‘‘ reds” bear the same relation to the breast “reds” in each. (6). It has the basal frontal mark duller than in (a) and much less of it. The breast red is dull, throat brownish-black. : (c). It has only a trace of red on the forehead and pectoral regions ; throat, crown, and nape greyish-brown. (d). It has a faint trace of red on the forehead, none on the breast. The plumage of what are called the Red Robins is quite im- perfect at the close of 12 months, yet in this phase they nest and rear a family. Immature birds in Victoria have nested in August of different years. Matured birds will breed twice in a season with two to three eggs laid on successive days. Incubation lasts 14 days, during which the disturbed bird will often feign injury when you approach the nest. Mr. J. A. Hill, of Kewell, in a letter to me gives the time between the starting of nest- building to laying of first egg as ten days. On February 15, 1899, I secured a young male skin in Victoria showing the change from the brown plumage to the showy one. The tawny feathers of the forehead had mostly given way for the brilliant reds; one patch of brownish feathers remained on the chest, while all the others either had “burst their buds” or were doing so into bright-red. Excepting the middle feathers, all the others of the tail were short and irreguiarly graduated. The brownish 28 wing primaries were giving way to the black quills in order from the first; the earthy plumes of the remaining parts of the body were making place for the blacks; abdomen and lower tail coverts were already white. Gould proved P. leggii to moult its “reds” annually. A new supply shows out almost patch for patch in P. phenicea in February (skins, 26/1/1900, described Roy. Soc. of Vic.). The song of this species is clear and strong, like P. Jeggiz, but is much sweeter and of a different setting. ARTAMUS PERSONATUS, Gould. Artamus personatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pl. 31; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat., Bds., vol. XIII., p. 16; Hall, “Key to the Birds of Austr.” p. 48. Immature skin, female, 24/11/98. The mask is not so well defined as in adult skins, and the outer borders of the primaries are edged with light-brown. This species, like Corvus coronoides, places outposts as an act of prevention when bellicose birds are in the neighbourhood. They change their sentinels irregularly, but are always sure to have some three to four birds perched on an elevated position watching the interests of the general body of feeders below. Others fly up at intervals to take up the duty. If an enemy, say in the shape of a Crow-shrike, appears, the sentinels’ necks croon forward, and discordant calls, louder and in quicker time than is usual, are given. The colony is on the wing at once in readiness for an attack, and they certainly seem to think discretion is the better of valour, for away they go to take up a position elsewhere. A very similar observation has been communicated to me by Mr. Geo. Graham concerning A. swperciliosus. In this case the enemy seemed specially to be the White-backed Crow-shrike (G. lewconota). ARTAMUS soRDIDUS, Latham. Artamus sordidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IL, pl. 27; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. XIIL, p. 19; Hall, “‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 48. a. Skin, female, 14/8/98. No white in third primary—iudi- cates not quite mature. Second primary longer than first. 6. Skin, nestling male, 10/12/96. The upper and under surfaces brown, streaked and spotted with dusky white, much stronger on the upper; wings deep slate, second and third primary edged with clear white on the outer webs, coverts wedge- marked with brown at tips; tips of primaries clearly marked by white, also shoulder of wing, both of which entirely disappear in the adult ; distal third of rectrices white, bill brown, legs and feet slatey-brown. Length of wing, 3:1 ins.; culmen, 0-4 ins.; tail, 1-5 ins. 29 The following portion of their gregarious habit is specially in- teresting :—oosting for the Night.— Usually in fine weather the sheltered side of a rough shell of an old tree is selected. When cold nights prevail, a stump, so burnt that the upper part forms an inverted funnel, is then chosen. The interest is to watch the shuffling upward movements of the birds as they move towards and enter the hole. While those on the stump are getting safely housed, their numbers are added to by more that are flying about and watching their opportunities. Sometimes the hole is not large enough to hold all; they then cluster in a great bunch (like a bee-swarm when at rest) beneath the dome. Hence the generic name Artamus, and a previous reference under other con- ditions. Should a person pass too near, there is a nerve-startling rush, such as a tree falling close to you would produce, and the process of camping has to be repeated. PARDALOTUS ORNATUS, Zemm. Pardalotus striatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 38. Pardalotus ornatus, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. X., p. 55; Hall, “‘ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 46. a, b. Skins, adult male and female, 4/9/’98. CoOLLYRIOCINCLA RUFIVENTRIS, Gould. Collyriocincla rufiventris, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol.-IT., pl. 75; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. III., p. 292; Hall, “ Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 11. a. Skin, adult female, 14/8/’98. 6. Skin, immature female, 4/9/’98. (a). General plumage brownish-grey, lores and other parts cor- responding with the tint of brown over most of the grey. Bill black ; length, 0-9 inch. (>). General colour of plumage grey, lores and other parts agreeing, except region of vent and under tail coverts, which correspond with those of a. Bill light-horn, blacker along the culmen ; length, 0°75 inch. The immature female has the eyebrow like its surroundings in colour. TAENIOPYGIA CASTANOTIS, Gould. Amadina castanotis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IIT, pl. 87. Tenopygia castanotis, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. Denne. oUl; Hall Key Bds. Austr.,7 p. 50! Skin, male, 20/11/98. Forehead and crown uniform grey ; under portion of tail deep brown. That this species is a “‘ host” of the cuckoo, Chalcococcyx basalis, is now placed on record. Mr. Cameron writes—‘“A colony of the chestnut-eared Finch had its nests sprinkled about, some having 30 eggs, and others vacant. In one of the latter I found the cuckoo’s egg (skin since received). I left it, and several days after (November 19) I visited the nest, and found no other eggs added. The Finches had deserted. In one tree there were as many as 30 nests. In the split spout of a eucalypt the nest is occasionally built.” A favourite situation in the orient is at the base of a Crow or Hawk’s nest, and the Finch and Hawk perch within a foot of each other amicably. One nest had a clutch of nine eggs. Sometimes the rudely-built nests meant for the non- sitting bird will contain eggs. The compactness of the nest will depend on the surroundings and its material. Several nests placed in polygynum were very small and slightly built. It prefers open and dry country, although its presence is indicative of water not being far away. Mr. J. P. Rogers has communi- cated to mea field note of value. Inland from the Fitzroy River two of us had a terrible thirst experience, and, although we watched a hundred of this bird, we could not find water along the creek bed. Watching carefully a dozen, we saw them settle in the bowl of the lowest fork of a large mulga, and, following them, we found about two tablespoonfuls of water in it. This is about what is saved from a slight thunderstorm, and we are pleased to acknowledge the service rendered by a species of Finch. EPHTHIANURA TRICOLOR,* Gould. Ephthianura tricolor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IIL, pl. 66; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. VIT., p. 667; Hall, “ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 30. Skin, adult male. This Chat appears in great numbers at Kalgoorlie by the end of October, and begins to depart towards the end of December. Further North £. aurifrons has been noticed (Elder Exp.). OREOICA CRISTATA,* Lewin. Oreoica gutturalis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pl. 81. Oreoica cristata, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VIII., p. 174; Hall, ‘“‘ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 32. a. Skin, juv. male, 13/3/99. Forehead brownish-grey, crest feathers light black and less in number than in the adult; back less ruddy than in adult ; throat fawn-grey, with two whitish feathers on the gorget; one to two blacks showing on breast ; winglet new. b. Skin, adult male. The forehead is black, while the lores are the creamy colour of the throat. The lores of a are brownish, like the forehead, with a fiush of grey over them. The call of the young differs from that of the adult, and Mr. Cameron clearly distinguishes it from the call of the Eastern 31 bird. The aborigines of W.A. have noted two settled calls. This supports the statement of Dr. Stirling and Mr. Zeitz (Roy. Soc., S.A., XVI., p. 156) that they are the calls of young and old of the same species. A nest with three eggs was hidden in a group of young leaves. CRACTICUS DESTRUCTOR, Z’emm. Cracticus destructor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 52; Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. VIII., p. 100; Hall, “Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 32. By examining a series of skins, I find the most developed male may be recognised by the white throat, grey back, flanks and sides of upper breast greyish-white ; culmen, 1°62 inches. The development is from deep-brown on the dorsal region to black and grey ; from light-brown on the under surface to a nearly clear white under surface in the adult. The brown barring on the young is displaced by the faint blue-grey on the sides of the breast in the adult. a. Skin, juv. male, 11/12/98. The feather-shafts from the forehead to the interscapulum are rufous-brown. b. Skin, female fledgling, about three days out of nest, 20/11/’97. Head, neck, and back deep-brown ; rump light-brown ; upper tail coverts light-brown, barred with deep-brown ; centres of cheek feathers light-brown ; sides of neck show brown patches; lores brown ; throat, abdomen, and under tail coverts white, tinged with brown; chest and breast brown and brownish-white, the brown forming blotches and bars; wings deep-brown, secondaries and coverts edged with pale-rufous; tail brown, tipped with white, tinged with pale-rufous ; bill brownish-black at the base, brown at the tips; legs slatey-brown. Length of wing, 4:3 ins.; tail, 2°8 ins.; culmen, 0°85.” PTILOTIS ORNATA, Gould. Ptiletis ornata, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 39; Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. [X., p. 244; Hall, “Key Austr. Bds.,” p. 43. a. Skin, adult female, 4/9/98. Loc.—Golden Ridge. 6. Skin, adult female, 16/10/98. ZLoc.—Kalgoorlie Centre. The two centre tail feathers were very much decomposed. e. Skin, immature, 2/4/99. Zoc.—“ Hannan’s Lake.” General plumage browner than in a or 6. More yellow on wings; breast more heavily blotched with brown; edges of inner webs of primaries edged with fulvous. New tail quills were developing, and the bird was concluding its autumn moult. MANORHINA FLAVIGULA, Gould, Myzantha flavigula, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., p. 79. Manorhina flavigula, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. [X., p. 261; Hall, “Key Austr. Bds.,” p. 44. 32 "Skin, adult female, 5/3/99. Length of wing, 4:7 ins.; tail, 4:5 ins. This bird was concluding its moult, and the innermost. quill was ‘“ bursting.” The winglet feathers had their sheaths still attached. The finding of MW. flavigula in West or 8.W. Australia is now placed on record, and the law of representation with this genus, as defined by Gould, is a little interfered with. In likely proba- bility it has journeyed from the central portion of the continent. GLYCYPHILA ALBIFRONS, Gouwld. Glycyphila albifrons, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 29; Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. LX.. p. 211; Hall, “ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 39. a. Immature skin, 27/11/98. 6. Immature skin, male, 27/11/’98. Forehead black, a few of the lateral feathers feebly tipped with slatey-white ; around eye black, a faint ring of white appearing; crown black ; narrow line leaving angle of lower mandible, white ; ear coverts silvery- slate, behind which is an irregular line of white; chin feathers dusky-black, edged with impure white ; primaries and primaries- coverts-margins yellowish-green ; under surface of wing fulvous ; upper tail coverts rufous, central parts black ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts whitish, with centres of feathers narrowly marked with brownish-black ; bill, legs, and feet black. Wing, 3 ins.; tail, 3 ins.; tarsus, 0°8 ins.; culmen, 0°65 ins. ENTOMPHILA LEUCOMELAS, Cuvier. Melicophila picata, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 49. Entomophila leucomelas, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IX., p. 220; Hall, ‘Key Bds. Aust.,” p. 40. Skin, adu!t femaie, 19/10/’98. CucuLus PALLIDUS, Latham. Cusulus inornatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 85. Cuculus pallidus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., p. 261; Ball, “Key Bds. Austrygp. 08. Skin, adult male, 4/9/98. The male skins in my cabinet appear to fall into three phases in the development of the plumage :— a. Young, in which white predominates throughout the plumage, the feathers being broadly edged and dentated by the white ; quill tips also white; the pigment of the plumage beyond the white patches is blackish-brown. Bill nutty-brown ; culmen, 0:65 in. 6. Immature, in which white does not predominate throughout the plumage. The feathers are narrowly edged with white, and 33 feebly dentated by the white; quill tips not edged with white other than the third, and that slightly so. The pigment of the plumage as a whole is dark-brown. Bill blackish; culmen, .0°8 in. c. Adult, in which there is little white throughout the plumage, the feathers not being edged with white, and some of the quills and rectrices alone dentated with white; plumage generally light-brown. Bill blackish; culmen, 0°85 in., and broader at nostrils than in a or 6. CHALCOCOCCYX BASALIS, Horsf. Chrysococcyx lucidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 89. Chalcococcyx basalis, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., p. 294; Hall, “Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 59. An egg only of this bird was sent to me, but subsequently I was personally able to collect the species just N.E. of Albany. _ Misocaius PALLIoLATUS, Latham. Chalcites osculans, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 88. Misocalius palliolatus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., pein) elall, “Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 09: Skin, adult female, 4/9/’98. HALCYON PYRRHOPYGIUS,. Gouwld. Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 22. Halycon pyrrhopygius, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., XVIi., p- 258; Hall, “ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 57. The adult skin dated December, 1896, has a pale-green head and a clear white nuchal collar. PSEPHOTUS MULTICOLOR, Z’emm. Psephotus multicolor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl. 35 ; Salvadori, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 566; Hall, “ Key ips, Austr.,” p. 67. a. Skin, adult female, 11/12/98. 6. Skin, adult male, 11/12/98. c. Skin, adult male, 15/3/99. a, 6, and ¢ indicate three distinct phases of the plumage :— (a) Primaries, secondaries, their coverts, the tail and its coverts very much decomposed. (b) Generai plumage above olive, as well as upon the throat and chest; breast light-green; abdomen lemon-green ; shoulder feathers duli-red. (¢) The olive of (6) is bright-green; abdomen orange and yellow ; shoulder feathers bright-yellow, illustrating xantho- chroism. Specimen (6) would need to go through another moult to C 34 obtain a brighter frontal yellow band, a clearer red upon the shoulders, and more white upon the tail feathers to become fully adult. BARNARDIUS ZONARIUS, Shaw. Platycercus bauri, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl. 20. Barnardius zonarius, Salvad., Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., XX., p. 560; Hall, ‘‘ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 66. Adult skin, 19/2/99. The specimen was concluding a moult, for the last of the yellow feathers of the breast were “ bursting.” All but the outer three quills have a maculated line upon the under surface of the wing. In the South-West this species nips off the blossoms of the eucalypts when they have once been explored for nectar. It is not improbable that this is the means for saving the labour of re-examining a flower. Thousands of blossoms daily fall by this means. MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS, Shaw. Melopsittacus undulatus,} Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl. A4; Salvad., Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 594; Hall, “Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 68. Skin, adult male, 16/10/98. The species flocks into the district in July, and pairs in October, as far as noted. The skin received showed an inner quill missing from one wing, and one strangely gcowing from the lower back. It appeared to be identical with the missing one. The not unusual occurrence of a snake entering the nest of a bird occurred under Mr. Cameron’s notice, and the four eggs were eaten by the reptile, after which it slept for several hours in the nest. The following species have been recognised by Mr. Cameron, without the skins being forwarded to the writer :— UVroaétus audax, Latham. Falco melanogenys, Gould. Corone australis, Gould. Graucalus melanops, Latham. Podargus phalenoides, Gould (*). Eupodotis australis, Gray. Dromeus nove-hollandie, Latham. Cheramceca leucosternum, Gould. Plectrorhynchus lanceolatus,* Gould. Gymnorhina dorsalis, Camp. Rhipidura tricolor. Vieill. * Not yet recorded as a W.A. species. 35 FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES. By the Rev. T. Biacksurn, B.A. XXVI. [Read May 1, 1900.] CARABIDA. CLIVINA. C. eyrensis, sp. nov. Minus convexa; sat nitida; brunneo- testaceus ; mandibulis brevibus; clypeo ab “‘alis” distincto, quam he magis producto, antice fere truncato ad extremi- tates angulato; oculis sat (fere ut C. Soville, Blackb.) convexis ; prothorace quam longiori paullo latiori, fortiter anguste canaliculato, antice leviter angustato, latera versus transversim leviter rugato vix punctulato, foveis posticis fere nullis; elytris sat ewqualiter sat profunde striatis, striis parum manifeste punctulatis, stria quinta antice cum externis conjuncta; tibiis anticis extus tridentatis. Juong., 2+ 1; leieeagee aa B From the characters mentioned above it will be seen that this species falls into the group called by Mr. Sloane (Proc. L.S., N.S.W., 1896, p. 151) the ‘‘obliquata group.” Of the species included in that group and known to Mr. Sloane only one species (C. Riverine) agrees with the present one in being of sub- depressed form, and with its prothorax wider than long ; from which the present insect differs notably by enter alia the fifth and sixth elytral striz deeply impressed throughout their whole length (and not, or scarcely, less strongly impressed than the other striz), by the almost complete absence of elongate fovez near the base of the pronotum, and by its more convex eyes. From the species of the obliquata group not known to Mr. Sloane (of all of which the types are in my collection) C. eyrensis differs by its much more convex eyes. S. Australia; near Lyndhurst (Lake Eyre basin), taken by Herr Koch. C. Adelaide, Blackb. I take this opportunity of mentioning that this insect appears to me to be the species that Mr. Sloane identifies with C. obliquata, Putz. Mr. Sloane (J.c.) gives his xeasons for thinking that obl/iquata is founded on an insect not 36 very readily recognisable by its author’s description,—reasons. that seem to be on the whole conclusive,—and therefore C. Adelaide must be quoted, I think, as a synonym of obliquata. CYLCOTHORAX. C. peryphoides, Blackb. Mr. Sloane in a recent valuable paper (P.L.S., N.S.W., 1859, p. 563) discusses the relation of this insect to his new species C. cordicollis, and mentions my having stated that the latter is distinct from it, proceeding to conjecture the distinctive characters. I fear, from this, that I must have answered his enquiries hurriedly and without giving my reasons for considering the two distinct,—for which if it was so I certainly owe him my apologies,—though it is possible he may have mislaid remarks I may have written on the subject and only remembered that I reported the two species as both valid. In point of fact they are closely allied but (apart from the great difference in the colour of the legs,—a character worthy of note when accompanied by structural divergence) the form of the pro- thorax furnishes a perfectly satisfactory distinction. In cordicollis the lateral margins of that segment (the short sub-basal parallel- sided part being disregarded) diverge for considerably more than half their length so that the greatest width of the segment is in front of the middle even of the part with curved sides, whereas in peryphoides the corresponding part of the lateral margin is an even curve, the greatest width of the prothorax being exactly at the middle of the curve, with the result of a very different facies, —the prothorax looking distinctly more transverse in peryphoides than in cordicollis, although careful measurement shows it to be only very slightly so. The lateral outline of the prothorax of peryphoides, if the short parallel sided basal piece be disregarded, is exactly like the lateral outline of that segment in C. ambiguus, Er. In peryphoides, moreover, the form of the whole insect is wider and less convex,—more robust-looking, LAMELLICORNES. CEPHALODESMIUS. C. miner, sp. nov. Niger, antennis palpisque pallidis; sat opacus ; clypeo brevius 4-dentato, dentibus medianis quam ceteri paullo longioribus; prothorace transverso, sat crebre minus fortiter punctulato, leviter canaliculato (canali antice obsoleto), ad latera ampliato-depresso, parte ampliata ad. medium tuberculo parvo instructa, lateribus paullo ante medium et sat longe pone medium perspicue angulatis (inter angulos fere rectis sed retrorsum leviter convergentibus), angulis anticis sat acutis posticis fere rectis; elytris sub- sulcatis (ut C. armigeri, Westw., sculpturatis), setis brevibus crassis ferrugineis sparsim vestitis. 37 Maris pygidio sat convexo, opaco (apice anguste nitido), minus perspicue punctulato, setis ut elytra vestitis ; tibiis posticis manifeste flexuosis. Femine pygidio planato, ut maris sculpturato et vestito, parte postica nitida in medio retrorsum angulatim dilatata ; tibiis posticis haud flexuosis. Long., 44 1.; lat., 3 1. Closely allied to C. armiger, Westw., but a little smaller, with the clypeal teeth shorter, and having the outline of the prothorax notably different. The lateral margin of that segment runs from the front angle obliquely hindward and outward, then making a well-defined angle runs nearly straight (but slightly inward) nearly to the base where it makes another angle, from which it runs very obliquely to the base. The outline between the front margin and the anterior of the lateral angles is almost strongly (and that between the lateral angles slightly) concave. Of the other described species of Cephalodesmius, Castelnaur, Har., and Macleay, Har., are described as having nitid levigate ares or tubercles on the disc of the prothorax ; quadridens, Macl., has the front part of the head impunctulate; cornutus, Macl., has the clypeal structure altogether peculiar, and /aticollis, Pasc. (which is very slightly described) is stated to be much larger than the insect before me (long., 7 1.) with the prothorax wider than the elytra (in the present insect it is by measurement slightly narrower than the elytra), and it is implied that the prothorax is of the same shape as in armiger. N.S. Wales; Richmond R. (sent by Mr. Lea). C. armiger, Westw. The male of this species has the hind tibiee scarcely flexuous and the pygidium very similar to that of C. minor, while the pygidium of the female resembles that of C’. minor in having a nitid apical space dilated hindward in the middle,—but the shape of the dilatation is very different in the two species, being in menor a small triangular space in the middle of the narrow nitid edging of the segment, while in armiger the subtriangular nitid space covers the whole apical portion of the segment,—the lines that meet in an angle on the middle line of the segment having their other extremities at the lateral ends of the nitid space,—their angle thus being widely obtuse, while in minor it is acute. LABROMA. L. horrens, Shp. Mr. Lea has recently sent to me for identi- fication a specimen of this insect. Dr. Sharp (Rev. and Mag. de Zool. 1873, p. 262) in characterising the genus stated that the type had no front tarsi, but that very probably they had been broken off. The example before me has front tarsi very similar 90 those of Cephalodesmius, to which genus it is very close. 38 PLATYPHYMATIA. S. squalidus, Macl. Among some specimens sent to me by Mr. Cowley which agree very well with Sir W. Macleay’s description of this insect, and which were taken in the same locality as the type, I find a single example, which I take to be the female. It agrees with the male in all respects of sculpture, &c., except in the anterior elevation of its prothorax being much less strong, its pygidium notably less gibbose, and its hind femora unarmed. OCNODUS. O. lepidus, sp. nov. Ferrugineus, clypeo picescenti, antennarum clava dilutiori; nitidus; fortiter punctulatus, elytrorum puncturis quam cetere manifeste majoribus; clypeo antice subrotundato ; prothorace quam longiori duplo latiori, antice parum angustato, angulis anticis productis minus acutis posticis obtusis, lateribus leviter rotundatis, basi vix lobata ; elytris obsolete tricostatis, haud setosis ; tibiis anticis extus tridentatis. Long., 431.5; lat., 221 Difters from O. spinicollis, Blackb., and fallax, Blackb., inter alia by the obtuse hind angles of its prothorax, from O. decipiens, Burm., and ferrugineus, Blackb., by the absence of sete on the upper surface, and from /uguwbris, Blackb., by the very much less close puncturation of its pronotum. The upper margin of the labrum is distant from that of the clypeus (as in O. fallaz). The sculpture of the upper surface is in all parts very similar to that of O. fallax. It should be noted in respect of this insect (as I have pointed out in describing other species that I have attributed to Ocnodus) that it is possible it is not really congeneric with O. decipiens, Burm., a species that I have never been able to identify. S. Australia ; basin of Lake Eyre (taken by Herr Koch). HETERONYX. H. unicus, sp. nov. Sat brevis; sat latus; modice convexus ; nitidus; subglaber, lateribus corpore subtus pedibusque sparsimpilosis ; pallide brunneo-testaceus ; capite confertim rugulose, prothorace sparsius sat fortiter, elytris inequaliter (7.é., puncturis sat grossis et aliis minoribus inzqualiter intermixtis), pygidio vix manifeste, punctulatis; clypeo fortiter reflexo antice late rotundato, sutura clypeali minus distincta ; prothorace quam longiori fere duplo latiori, antice minus angustato, lateribus sat rotundatis pone medium vix subsinuatis, basi media late leviter lobata, angulis anticis parum productis posticis obtusis ; elytris costis sat obsoletis circiter 4 instructis, his quam interspatia magis sparsim punctulatis ; tibiis anticis extus 3-dentatis; labro clypeum 39 haud superanti ; antennis 9-articulatis ; coxis posticis quam - metasternum multo brevioribus ; unguiculis appendiculatis, parte basali quam apicalis vix longiori. lLong., 4} 1.; lat., An extremely distinct species notable for the apical piece of its claws being scarcely shorter than the basal piece, and the peculiar sculpture of its elytra, each of which bears about four longitudinally convex spaces extending from near the base to near the apex. On these convex portions the puncturation of the general surface is partially interrupted resulting in the elytra having a striate appearance which is most unusual in the genus. The punctures of the elytra are for the most part coarse, but with a confused and irregular intermingling of considerably less coarse punctures. In my tabulation of the section of Heteronyx, to which this species belongs (P.L.S., N.S.W., 1391, pp. 488-9) it falls beside H. Mroggatti, Macl., from which. it differs inter alia by the uniformly close rugulosity of its head. S.A.; taken by Herr Koch near Lyndhurst. ANACHEIROTUS (gen. nov. Serzcordarwm ). Mas! Mentum quam latius longius, antice parum emarginatum ; palpi labiales breves, articulo ultimo obconico; palpi maxillares modici, articulo ultimo cylindrico ad apicem truncato, quam penultimus multo longiori ; labrum angustum valde transversum, late leviter arcuatum, vix prominulum, a clypei parte antica (hac fere ut Haplopsis subtus retrorsum obliquum) bene discreta ; oculi magni sat distincte granulati, antice a cantho profunde incisi; antennz (speciei typicz) 9-articulate, clava 3-articulata articulis preecedentibus 4 con- junctis longitudine sat «quali; clypeus supra antice valde reflexus et late emarginatus (nonnihil ut Haplopsis lineoligera, Blanch., mas); prothorax transversus ; elytra elongata nullo modo striata (stria subsuturali excepta) ; tibiz antic extus obtuse leviter tridentate, posticis modice latis (fere ut Haplopsis lineoligere, Blanch.) sed pone medium fortiter transversim carinatis; tarsi breves robusti (quam _ tibiz parum longiores); unguiculi valde bifidi; sterna sat glabra ; cox postice quam metasternum parum breviores. The small ZLumellicorn for which I propose this new generic name is extremely difficult to place, as it combines the characters of very widely different genera. Its short stout tarsi are like those of the genus that I take to be Ocnodus (except in not. beiug clothed beneath with tufts of long hair) from which it differs strongly in most other characters. Its clypeus and mouth organs suggest Haplopsis,—but there the resemblance ends. Its claws are those of a Heteronyx but its mouth organs and clypeus 40 (especially its extremely narrow,—almust linear,—non-prominent labrum) separate it widely from /eteronyx. In my tabulation of the Australian Serzcoid genera (Tr. R.S., S.A., 1898, pp. 32-4) it must take its place beside Heteronyx,—which is perhaps its most natural position. To include it in the tabulation, the following must be substituted for line 25 on page 34 :— FF. Form notably more convex. G. Labrum largely developed and prominent ... Heteronyx. GG. Labrum extremely narrow and not prominent ... Anacheirotus. A. inornatus, sp. nov. Totus pallide testaceus; supra sparsim breviter pubescens, lateribus longe ciliatis; sat nitidus ; clypeo crebre subtiliter, capite postice fortius minus crebre, prothorace fortiter sparsim, elytris quam prothorax magis crebre paullo minus fortiter, pygidio sparsim minus fortiter, punctulatis ; clypei lateribus ante oculos fortiter angulatis ; pronoto transverso, antice parum angustato, lateribus leviter rotundatis, angulis anticis leviter acutis posticis rotundatis. Long., 2 41.; lat., 141. The clypeal canthus cuts into the eye to a little in front of its middle, and its lateral margin is strongly angular behind, the apex of the angle projecting a trifle beyond the outline of the eye. _ Australia (Basin of Lake Eyre); taken by Herr Koch, near Farina. ANOPLOGNATHUS. A. concinnus, sp. nov. Mas? Sat brevis; minus convexus ; nitidissimus ; supra glaber, corpore subtus pygidioque sparsissime albido-pilosis; supra brunneo-castaneus~ plus minusve viridi-micans, corpore subtus obscure viridi vel cyaneo plus minusve violaceo-micanti, metasterno medio (exemplorum 2 visorum) splendide aureo, antennis palpis pedibusque castaneis ; supra sparsim subtiliter punctulatus, elytris puncturis paullo majoribus lineatim leviter impressis, pygidio ad latera paullo magis perspicue punctulato; clypeo antice sat fortiter elevato-reflexo, rotundato; antennarum clava quam articuli precedentes 5 conjuncti sublongiori; prothorace fortiter transverso, antice modice angustato leviter emarginato, postice fortiter bisinuato (lobo mediano haud emarginato), lateribus fere rectis, angulis anticis vix acutis posticis sat abrupte rectis; elytris ad apicem con- junctim late rotundatis; mesosterni processu elongato, acuto ; tibiis anticis externe 3-dentatis, dentibus apicalibus 2 approximatis inter se, dente 3° (hoc paullo ante tibiam mediam sito) subobsoleto ; unguibus ad apicem acutis haud fissis. Long., 64 1.; lat., 321 This species is the smallest Anoplognathus yet described, being 4] a little smaller than A. abnormis, Macl., but otherwise does not appear to differ from its typical congeners, either structurally or in facies. In Sir W. Macleay’s grouping of the Anoplognathi (Tr. E.S., N.S.W., IT, pp. 353-4) it should be placed, I think, in the group containing rugosus, Kirby, pectoralis, Burm., and dispar, Macl., from all of which it differs widely inter alia by the subobsolete puncturation of its elytra. N. Queensland ; Mr. French. BUPRESTID4. STIGMODERA. In the Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg., 1898, there is a lengthy paper by M. Kerremans containing descriptions of a large number of new buprestide, chiefly from Australia. Having recently been revising the Stigmodere of my own collection, and of the South Australian Museum, I have taken the opportunity to study M. Kerremans’ late work somewhat closely as far as concerns the genus Stigmodera, and in the following notes I record the result, and add some remarks on certain other Stigmodere, together with the description of some new species. S. triangulosa, Kerr. (l.c.)=terre-reginw, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1893, p. 295). It seems to me doubtful whether both these names will not have to be dropped in favor of S. biguttata, Macl. (Trans. Ent. Soc., N.S.W., L, p. 24)—a name that was applied to an insect which (judged by the description) might well be a variety of the species I (and subsequently M. Kerremans) described under the above names. S. campestris, Kerr., nom. preocc. (Blackb , Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1897, p. 31) I propose for it the name subgrata. In spite of its being, as M. Kerremans points out, extremely close to S$. yrata, Saund., the apical truncature of its elytra inter alia seems incon- sistent with its being a mere variety. S. sensitiva, Kerr. (1.c.)=S. victoriensis, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. 8., eae HOIO; p. 152). S. laudabilis, Kerr. (l.c.). Judging by the description I should say this insect is 8. Skuse?, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. 8., S.A., 1892, p. 46). S. verax, Kerr. (l.c.). This species must be very close to (if not identical with) S. Mastersi, Macl. (Tr. Ent. Soc., N.S.W., IT, p. 245). S. colorata, Kerr, (l.c.), nom. proce. (Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1847, p. 283). I propose the name duleis for this hand- some species, of which there is a fine example in the S.A. Museum. ~S. acuminata, Kerr. (1.c.). This species seems to be without doubt identical with S. acutipennis, Thoms. 42 S. placens, Kerr (/.c.). Evidently identical with S. cara, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. Soe, 5: Asji1892;, pp 2ila): S. cvigilans, Kerr. (l.c.). I have before me specimens from Victoria (M. Kerremans’ locality) which agree very well with the description of this species. They appear to me, however, to. be merely a variety of S. rectifasciata, Saund. S. consularis, Kerr. (é.c.).=8. guttaticollis, Blackb. (Tr. Roy.. NA.) S92. palais): S. addenda, Kerr. (l.c.). I can find nothing in the description of this insect to distinguish it from S. pollidipennis, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1890, p. 154). Addenda, moreover, is a nom. preeoce. (Thoms. Typ. Bupr,, 1878, p. 52). S. bucolica, Kerr. (l.c.). The description of this species does not. indicate any fas from §. Szeboldi, L. and G. Se deco a Gertie) elie habitat of this species is given. merely as “Australia” I have examples from Eyre’s Peninsula of a Stigmodera that agrees very well with the description, and which I have regarded doubtfuliy as a variety of S. Airbyi, Guér., but on reconsideration I think it is a good species. S. ocularis, Kerr. (.c.). I cannot find anything in the descrip- tion of this insect to distinguish it from S. lilliputana, Thoms. S. mansueta, Kerr. (1.c.) The habitat given is merely ‘Aus- tralia.” J have specimens from W. Australia which fit the description very satisfactorily. S. crocipennis, Hope (Bupr., p. 6). This species seems to be generally regarded as identical with S. rufipennis, Kirby. It appears, however, to me to be more probably the allied S. parollela, Saund. S. dawsonensis, Blackb. In Tr. Roy. Soc., 5.A., 1892, p. 220,. I expressed a doubt whether this might not prove to be an extreme variety of S. lilliputana, aihoms, It is, however, a good species. S. tasmanica, Kerr. (C.R. Soe. Ent. Belg., 1890, p. 2). This. insect is certainly I think one of the innumerable varieties of S. Stricklandi, Hope, of which I have many specimens from Hope’s locality (Morialta, near Adelaide), and also from Tas- mania and other localities in Southern Australia. Lightly coloured examples agree with Hope’s description in having flavous elytra each marked with a dark spot, below the shoulder a median dark fascia, and a large dark blotch filling the apical one-fourth of the elytra and bearing a small reddish or yellow spot in its middle. There is a still lighter variety in which the spot in the dark apex is much enlarged, and another in which it becomes a fascia cutting off a dark fascia from the front of the apical dark blotch. Other specimens are darker than the type,— the subhumeral dark spot enlarging till it becomes a fascia and. 43 the median fascia becoming more or less wider than in the type.. These last-named examples agree with the description of fasmanica in having the elytra dark violaceous with three pale fascie. I have specimens of the above forms taken in company quite promiscuously, from Tasmania as well as 8. Australia, Victoria, and Southern N.S. Wales. Whether this insect is identical with S. Afitchelli, Hope, appears to me very doubtful in spite of Mr. Saunders’ assertion of its identity, for he says that Mitchelli has elytra unarmed at the apex (which is not the case with the present species) and Hope mentions a fovea on the pronotum near the hind angle which is not to be found in the present insect. The type of 8. Mitchell: was from W. Australia, and I have not seen S. Stricklandi or anything like it from that colony. S. Stricklendi may be distinguished from ali the other hitherto described Stigmodere as follows : apex of elytra truncate: and feebly bi-acute, prothorax dark with lateral margins pale, under surface dark (except sides of prothorax and of ‘abdomen and sometimes a spot on the hind coxe), elytra having transverse zones of dark and pale colouring (more than two zones pale, the apex dark) their interstices moderately convex and their apical points feeble, head scarcely concave longitudinally. All the numerous varieties (that I have seen) of Stricklandi are covered by the above description, and I know of no > other species that it will fit. S. astentatrix, Thoms. This insect is very near Stricklandi,, but is a good species, differing by, inter alia, its strongly costate elytral interstices and strong sutural spine at the apex of its elytra, as well as in the colouring of its prothorax. I have a fine example of it in my collection, but do nab know its exact habitat, which seems to have been unknown to M. Thomson’ also; there is an example also in the 8.A. Museum marked ‘“ W.A.?” S. Karatte, Blackb. In Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1890, pp. 149-50, J pointed out the distinctions of this species from 8S. Stricklandi (which I called S. Mitchelli on Saunders’ authority, though I now doubt the identity.) If S. Mitchelli be distinct from S. Stricklandi, Karatte is still distinct from Jfitchelli, being very differently marked and coloured from the type and (even if Mitchell prove to be variable in colour and markings) differing also, inter alia, in the absence of a fovea near the hind angles of the pronotum. S. rugosivennis, Thoms., Arch. Ent., 1857, p. 111. This seems to be clearly a synoym of S. obscuripennis, Mann. Bull. Mosc., 1837, p. 32. I believe this synonymy has hitherto escaped notice. S. Carpentarie, Blackb. This seems to be the insect referred to by Mr. Waterhouse | Ann. Nat. Hist. (s) VII.] as a local form ae of a specimen previously mentioned by him as a var. of 8. viridicincta, Waterh. (Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1874, p. 543.) I have not seen the var. ? last named, but am quite satisfied that S. Carpentarie is distinct from S. viridicineta, as it differs not oniy in colouring and pattern (which are very widely distinct) dut in numerous other characters also, ¢.g., its prothorax notably more strongly transverse, the striz of its elytra more closely punctured, the extero-apical tooth of its elytra less acute. S. elegantula, White (Stoke’s Journ., I., p. 507.) Its author, after describing this species, says ‘“‘near coccinata, Hope.” If cannot find any difference at all in the two descriptions indicating that they are not founded on one and the same species. Hope, it is true, calls the antemedian mark on the elytra a spot (not reaching the suture) whereas according to White it is a fascia narrowed by a deep notch before reaching the suture, but there are so many species of Stigmodera in which an antemedian dark marking consists of a fascia liable in varieties to be broken up into isolated spots that no specific value can be attributed to the character, and I can find no other to fall back upon. The species is a very distinct one, with no close allies as yet described. S. Pascoei, Saund. This magnificent insect is stated by its author to occur in “ Australia,” without the mention of any more exact habitat. J have seen an example in the collection of Mr. W. W. Froggatt, which was taken at Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia. S. cerulea, Kerr. In Mem. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1892, M. Kerre- mans proposes this name asa substitute for the nom. proce. célestis, Kerr. I, however, had in 1890 (Tr. R.S., S.A., p. 148) proposed the name sfzl/ata for it. S. flavescens, Masters (flava, Thoms.). M. Kerremans (Mem. Soc. Ent., Belg., 1892, p. 148) makes this identical with S. flava, Saund. The latter species I am familiar with, and it is correctly described as having the apex of each elytron rounded. S. fiavescens is described as having the apex of each elytron bidentate. Unless Thomson’s description is actually incorrect the two can hardly be identical. S. capucina, Blackb. I tind that this is a nom. preoce. having been used by Thomson (Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1856, p. 46) for an insect that appears to be identical with decipiens, Westw. How- ever, I subsequently (Tr. R.S., S.A., 1894, p. 141) described under the name Curoli a Stigmodera which I was eventually satisfied must be regarded as a var. of my capucina (l.c., 1897, p. 31) and consequently Caroli becomes the name of the species that I originally named capuecina. S. carinata, Macl. M. Kerremans (Mem. Soc. Ent., Belg., 1892, p. 145) gives this name as a synonym of S. plagiata, Gory. 45 I have before me severa] examples of Macleay’s insect, and am inclined to think them distinct from plagiata though undoubtedly very close to it. The form of the common apical dark blotch on the elytra seems constantly different,—in carinata filling the whole apex (its front margin on each elytron a more or less sinuous line running from the suture obliquely hindward and outward to the lateral margin), while in plagiata it does not fill the whole apex but is a square spot the front margin of which runs out transversely towards the lateral margin of the elytron, and ata considerable distance from it meets (at a right angle) the lateral margin (of the spot) which runs hindward as a straight line parallel to the suture to join the lateral margin of the elytra, reaching it at a very short distance from the apex (of the elytra). In plagiata but not in carinata the lateral margin of the elytra is of a red colour distinctly brighter than the colour of other parts of the surface, and the pronotum of carinata is evidently more gibbous than that of plagiata with the central longitudinal line considerably more strongly impressed. S. insignicollis, sp. nov. Sat elongata; minus lata; pone medium minus fortiter dilatata; sat nitida; supra glabra, subtus pilis minus brevibus albidis plus minusve dense vestita; splendide aureocuprea (nonnullis exemplis plus minusve viridi-micantibus) prothoracis macula magna dis- coidali (hoc basin nec apicem attingenti) lete violacea ; elytris rufo-auarantiacis notas cyaneo-nigras prebentibus [sc. fascia postbasali angusta margines laterales haud attingenti (hac exemplorum nonnullorum in maculas 2 vel 3 divisa), fascia mediana curvata (antrorsum convexa), et macula communi preapicali (hac formam variabili) cum fascia mediana secundum suturam connexa vel haud connexa|; capite sat brevi, crebre subgrosse punctulato, longitudinaliter concavo ; prothorace quam longiori ut 7 ad 5 (postice quam antice ut 64 ad 4) latiori, in parte violaceo sparsius subfortiter nec rugulose (in parte cetera fortiter rugulose confluenter) punctulato, lateribus arcuatis juxta basin sinuatis, angulis omnibus acutis, basi sat fortiter bisinuata ; elytris striatis, striis punctulatis, interstitiis sat fortiter convexis sat fortiter (ut strive) punctulatis, apice oblique emarginatis, parte emarginata externe quam ad suturam multo magis fortiter acuminata, lateribus postice subtiliter crenulatis. Long., 6—83 ].; lat., 24—3+ 1. The most distinctive character of this species consists in the very remarkable colouring and sculpture of the prothorax. The dlisc 1s occupied by a large violaceous spot (which, however, does not reach the front margin) on which the puncturation is smooth and not close, while the rest of the surface is of a brilliant golden 46 copper colour, and is coarsely and confluently rugulose. The pattern on the elytra (apart from colour) resembles roughly that of S. cyanicollis, Boisd., as tigured by Mr. Saunders (loc. cit.) but the fasciee or spots are not connected by dark colouring on the suture, except in occasional examples having the median fascia and preapical spot connected. In some specimens, however, the three spots placed transversely across the sub-basal part of the elytra are narrowly confluent so as to form a fascia, and the shape of the common preapical spot varies from circular to semi- circular. | W. Australia (taken near Cue by Mr. Ellershaw). S. quadrifasciata, Saund. I met with a few specimens . (evidently identical with the insect on which this species was founded) in Central Australia on the flowers of a small shrub (unknown to me by name) near the Cecilia Creek. It is a variable species, both the basal and subapical fascie of the elytra having a tendency to break up into isolated spots placed in a transverse row. In Saunders’ description the colour of the abdomen is given as ‘“olivaceous” as distinguished from the cyaneous remainder of the under surface, while in my three -examples the under surface is uniformly cyaneous, but as in all other respects my examples agree absolutely with the figure and description (allowing for the variation in the elytral pattern in two of them as noted above) I have no doubt the recorded colouring of the abdomen is either sexual or occasional. S. rubriventris, sp. nov. Modice elongata, minus convexa, pone medium modice dilatata; sat nitida; supra glabra, subtus sparsim argenteo-pilosa ; nea, elytris rufis notas cyaneas prebentibus [sc., maculas 3 postbasales transversim positas (e his mediana communi late ad basin producta, his in exemplis nonnullis fere confluentibus), fasciam postmedianam integram cum macula postbasali mediana anguste in sutura connexam, et maculam apicalem communem subtriangularem (hac cum fascia postmediana anguste in sutura connexa et ad apicem summam dilatata)|, antennis pedibusque vivlaceis, abdomine rubro ad basin enescenti; capite sat brevi, crebre fortiter punctulato, longitudinaliter concavo; prothorace quam longiori (et postice quam antice) ut 12 ad 7 latiori, crebre sat fortiter (ad latera subrugulose) punctulato, in medio anguste interrupte longitudinaliter levi, lateribus pone medium fortiter dilatato-rotundatis, angulis anticis acutis posticis rectis, basi leviter bisinuata ; elytris striatis, striis -subtiliter punctulatis, interscitiis antice parum (postice fortiter) convexis sparsim (latera versus magis crebre) punctulatis, ad apicem acuminatis haud (vel oblique vix manifeste) emarginatis, lateribus haud crenulatis ; unguiculis ‘mocicis fortiter divergentibus. Long., 641.; lat., 24 1. 47 In one of the two specimens before me the lateral two of the three postbasal elytral spots are widely separated from the median spot; in the other specimen they are all but confluent with it; I have no doubt these spots are liable to become a fascia. The apical spot is a triangle with its apex at the apex of the elytra, but its extreme apex is dilated so as to cover narrowly the whole elytral apex. The postmedian fascia is notably wider in one specimen than the other ; it crosses the elytra at right angles to the suture and (in that sense is straight, but) its margins are sinuous. Among the species having the head and prothorax of uniformly dark colour the elytra red with three zones of dark colouring, the abdomen uniformly red except base, and the apex of the elytra not distinctly emarginate; the present species is recognisable by the following characters in combination, —size not less than 44]. nor more than 94 1., elytra separately acuminate at the apex. W. Australia; sent to me by Mr. French. S. insignis, Blackb. In the diagnosis of this species (Tr. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1892, p. 217, line 3 of the diagnosis) “ante basin” should be ‘‘ante apicem.” ‘Ante basin” being of course non- sense, and the term “subapical” in the remarks following the diagnosis being evidently applied to the same marking that ante basin is applied to in the diagnosis, probably any reader would discern that ante basin must be a lapsus calami, but it is better to draw attention to it here. 8. filiformis, Blackb. In the diagnosis of this species (Tr. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1892, p. 218, line 8) for “suture” read ‘lateral margin.” S. cincta, Blackb. (rwbrocincta, Kerr., nom. preeocc). ‘ Aus- tralia” is the habitat attributed to this species. I have an example from W. Australia. S. obesissima, Thoms. (Typ. Bupr., App. I., 1879, p. 32), is clearly a synonym of S. Saundersi, Waterh. (Ann. N.H., 1876, p. 70). This svnonymy has not been previously recorded. S. flavipennis, Géhin. My collection and that of the S.A. Museum contain specimens of what I take to be this insect. They vary into a form which is possibly S. elegans, Géhin,— though none of them quite agree in markings with the figure of the latter insect. They are certainly not varieties of S. Yarrelli, L. and G. (as flavipennis and elegans are said to be) from which —disregarding the totally unlike colouring of their elytra—they differ by the presence of long white hairs on their head and thickly clothing their sterna, as well as by the very much closer puncturation of their prosternal process. There is a doubt, it is true, about the identity with flavipennis of the specimens before me because the pilosity of their sterna is quite dense, whereas 48 Géhin speaks only of ‘quelques poils rares ;” because their form is notably shorter and wider than the form of Yarrelli, while Géhin seems to say that flavipennis is ‘narrower and longer than Yarrelli,—but it is not quite clear he may not mean that Yarrelli is narrower and longer than flavipennis (which is the more likely since Yarrelli is a particularly narrow and elongate species); and because their sterna and hind coxe are variably (but always considerably) variegated with yellow, whereas in flavipennis they should be entirely green. The last-named discrepancy is of less consequence inasmuch as Géhin’s description is evidently care- lessly written containing the statement that the “ ventre et bords postérieurs des segments abdominaux” are of a beautiful green colour. The ventral segments of the specimens before me are yellow, with their (except the apical one) hindmargins green. Géhin says that . flavipennis is allied to “ Yarrelli and Havipennis” (the latter name obviously a misprint). The species IT am discussing (and for which I claim the name /lavipennis, Géhin, until the claim may be shown erroneous by an inspection of Géhin’s type) is smaller than Yarrellz (Long., 9—10 |.) and notably less narrow and elongate. Its under surface and legs are considerably more closely punctulate, its sterna quite densely clothed with long white hairs. Its head is pilose, the sutural apex of its elytra bears a distinct (though not long or very sharp) spine limiting a distinct (though feeble) truncation of the apex of each elytron. Its colours and markings are very similar to those of Yarrell1 except on the elytra where they are quite different. The elytra vary from uniform reddish testaceous (except the extreme base) to a form in which there is a small common sutural cyaneous spot a little behind the scutellum, a row of four cyaneous spots placed transversely (two on each elytron) slightly behind the middle and a narrow cyaneous edging of the apex. The insect is found in 8.W. Australia. It is to be noted that in the type of Yarrel/i, Hope (as described by Mr. Saunders, Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1868, p. 32), and in examples in my collection the apex of the elytra is simply rounded, while in other specimens before me (otherwise indistinguishable) the apex of the elytra is slightly truncated and the apex of the suture is slightly produced (though less so than in flavipennis). S. elegans, Géhin. This insect (referred to above as possibly identical with flavipennis, Géhin) is more probably, I think, a distinct species that I have not seen. I cannot understand its being called a variety of Yarrellc as no variety of the latter (observed by me,—and I have seen many) much resembles it in markings, and the size (12—13 mm.) greatly increases the ditfti- culty of supposing it to be Yarrellz. Its author mentions having seen a good many specimens and the varieties he indicates are 49 still less than the type like Yarrelli. Its markings come nearer those of S. bifascrata, Saund., than of any other Stigmodera known to me, but it is certainly not that species. EUCNEMID4. NEOLYCAON (gen. nov.) I propose this name as a substitute for ZLycaon, Bonvouloir (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1875), my attention having been called by Mr. T. 8. Hall, M. A. (of Melbourne University) to its being a nom. preoce. in Zoology, owing to its use oe Mammalia by Brookes (I see Scudder gives it ‘ “Smith “nog LOA) ELATERIDA#. LACON. elaciona.. Cand: Dn Pr. ES. N.S. W.,. 1891, p. 508, I doubtfully attributed to this species an insect occurring near Melbourne, the doubt arising from its antenne being testacecus or reddish in colour, whereas the description seemed to me to imply their being of darker colour. Subsequently Dr. Candéze sent me a specimen as his Victorze, which is identical with the insect I called by the name. L. farinensis, sp.nov. Sat latus; sat opacus ; piceo-ferrugineus, pronoti angulis posticis et elytrorum marginibus (sutura excepta) plus minusve rufescentibus ; supra setis pallidis brevibus crassis sat crebre vestitus ; capite pronotoque sat crebre sat fortiter punctulatis ; hoc quam in medio longiori vix latiori, sat fortiter convexo (a latere viso), lateribus a basi sat longe ultra medium leviter subsinuatim divergenti- bus (hinc ad apicem fortiter convergentibus); elytris quam prothorax ut 9 ad 5 longioribus, subobsolete punctulato- striatis, interstitiis planis biseriatim (quam strize haud magis subtiliter) punctulatis plus minusve distincte granulatis vel rugulosis,—epipleuris adversus abdominis basin recte trun- catis; coxis posticis in medio subito fortiter angustatis ; sulecis ad tarsos recipiendos in prosterno metasternoque sat fortiter impressis nec (ut Z. caliginosi, Guer., sunt) bene definitis. Long., 23—311.; lat., 1—14 1. A very distinct little species; the following characters in combination distinguish it from all its described Australian congeners :—Tarsal sulci on sterna very distinct but not sharply cut, front part of epipleurze narrowed opposite the hindmargin by a straight truncation, hind coxe suddenly and strongly nar- rowed about halfway between their base and the lateral margin of the body, elytra much longer than but less than twice as long as the prothorax, the punctures of the elytral striz not larger D 50 than those of the interstices, antenne of pale-ferruginous colour, elytral margins pale-ferruginous and the interstices granulous or rugulose, upper surface set with short coarse pale sete, size very small. The prothorax to a casual glance looks longer than wide but by measurement the length down the middle line is slightly less than the greatest width. ‘The nearest allies of this species are, I think, LZ. duplex, Blackb., and Victorig, Cand., from both ‘which it differs inter alia by its colour and the strong rugulosity of its elytral interstices. §.A.; Lake Eyre basin; taken by Herr Koch at Lyndhurst, near Farina. RHIPIDOCERID Ai. ENNOMETES. E. (Callirrhipis) ruficornis, Gray. Some years. ago I took, in the Blue Mountain district of N.S.W., a species which seems to be the very briefly described Callirrhipis ruficornis, Gray. It is however quite clearly a member of Pascoe’s genus Hnnometes (which seems to me worthy of being considered really distinet from Callirrhipis). I can find no character to distinguish as species H. Lacordavrei, Pasc., and C. ruficornis, Gray, nor does the insect before me differ from either description except in being somewhat larger than the specimen described by Pascoe (Gray does not mention the size of his species), As Pascoe makes no reference to C. ruficornis it seems not unlikely that he overlooked it, and J suspect that Callirrhipis ruficornis and EHnnometes Lacordairei are identical, in which case the insect must stand as Ennometes ruficornis, Gray. RHIPIDOCERA. R. mystacina, Fab. Mr. Waterhouse (Tr. E.S., Lond., 1875, p. 202) describes the typical specimen of this insect and mentions that examples from Northern Queensland are quite identical with it. He then mentions what he calls the ‘‘common form” which he says has the prothorax spotted (not evenly clothed) with white pubescence as being in his opinion a variety of mystacina. I have before me specimens of typical mystacuna from N. Queens- land and also examples with spotted prothorax from Tasmania, Victoria, and 8. Australia. These do not appear to differ inter se except in the Tasmanian specimens being larger than those from the mainland. They are decidedly R. femoralis, Kirby (which was described from a small island close to Tasmania) and are certainly a good species differing from mystacina (apart from the vestiture of the prothorax) by inter alia the darker colour of their derm and the notable sinuation of the sides of their prothorax (the same in mystacina being nearly straight). ol MALACODERMIDA. TRICHALUS. In Tr.R.S., S.A., 1894, I expressed the opinion that the genus Trichalus cannot be maintained as distinct from Metriorrhynchus. In Proc.L.8., N.S.W., 1898, Mr. Lea concurs with this view but seems to think that it is desirable to use the name as a matter of convenience because the distinction between the two forms is easily recognisable (the subsutural elytral costa in TZ'richalus becoming obsolete at a short distance behind the base, while in Metriorrhynchus it is similar to the other coste#). I think there is something to be said in favour of that proposition, as both forms are very numerous in Australia, and to treat them as generically distinct certainly simplifies the task of identifying and describing them. Accepting the name Z'rzchalus on the above grounds, I offer the following notes. ; T. (Metriorrhynchus) semicostatus, Blackb. Trichalus being regarded as a genus this species must be referred to it. T. Raymondi, Lea, must be somewhat close to it, and was taken in the same region (the Australian Alps). Probably however it is distinct, as Raymond is said to have the median line of the head distinct, the antenne of the male not reaching to the middle of the elytra and the rostrum tinged with red at the apex, whereas in semicostatus there is no distinct median line on the head, the antennz of the male would certainly reach back to the middle of the elytra and the rostrum is entirely black. If the two names should prove to refer to the same insect my name has the priority. T. funereus, sp. nov. Niger, elytrorum apice testaceo ; rostro nullo; prothoracis areola discoidali lanceolata bene definita ; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus integris 3 et alia subsuturali postice abbreviata instructis (his inter se equali- bus), interstitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus continuis separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium sat longioribus, sat compressis, articulo 4° quam 3" parum longiori. Long., 44 1.; lat., 11. Its colouring (entarely Black except the Senna apex of the elytra) inter alia distinguishes this species from all its described Australian congeners. The only one of them in which the pro- thorax is black and the elytra not entirely red is 7. discoideus, Er., of which Mr. Waterhouse mentions a form (in his opinion a variety) coloured like the present insect except in having the suture of the elytra red. The description of that species, how- ever, calls the prothorax “‘antrorsum angustatus,” which would not apply satisiactorily to this species as its prothorax is scarcely at al] narrower in front than behind. Moreover I have a 52 Trichalus from Tasmania (Hrickson’s locality) which I believe to- be discoideus and from which the present insect differs inter alia by the very much larger areole into which its elytral interstices. are divided ; they are like those of Metriorrhynchus (Stadenus} inguinulus, Waterh. Victoria ; Dividing Range. T. distinctus, Lea. The description of this species scarcely: differs from that of 7. ampliatus, Waterh., and both descriptions might well be founded on the same insect as Lycus ochraceus, Dalm. METRIORRHYNCHUS. M. insignipennis, sp. nov. Mas. ‘Totus niger; prothorace 7-areolato ; rostro fere nullo; elytris costis longitudinalibus 4 instructis; hz costz costulis transversis numerosis bene definitis inter se junctz sunt, ita ut in utroque elytro areole quadrate longitudinaliter 5-seriatim posite sunt; antennis corporis dimidio longitudine sat squalibus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis omnibus (basali 2° que exceptis) quam. latioribus plus minusve longioribus, articulo 3° 4° equali. Long., 334 1; lat., 1 1. Although the rostrum is very short it cannot be called quite non-existent, the distance from the base of the antennz to the base of the maxillary palpi being not much shorter than the length of one of the latter. The elytra have each four discal coste without any trace of intermediate elevated longitudinal lines,—so that the sculpture of each elytron may be said to consist of five rows of well-defined areole separated from each other by longitudinal coste of which the second is the most conspicuous. This sculpture is suggestive of Mr. Waterhouse’s genus Xylobanus but the costule connecting the elytral coste are not uniformly transverse ; they resemble those of JV. scalaris as figured by Waterhouse (Tr.H.S., Lond., 1877, Pl. 1., fig. 56) and in any case AXylobanus does not appear to me capable of being maintained as more than a section of Metriorrhynchus. The second joint of the antenne is scarcely visible. Tasmania. M. atratus, Fab. Fem. Totus niger; prothorace 7-areolato ;. rostro fere nullo; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 instructis, tnisisale biseriatim ficiet asi areolatis (series lineis indistincte,—antice magis distincte,—elevatis separan- tur); antennis quam corporis dimidium sat brevioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis 3° 9° quam latioribus vix vel haud longioribus, 10° quam latiori multo longiori quam 9"° multo angustiori. Long., 441; Jat., 141. Very near M. hemorrhoidalis, Er., of which I should be dis- D3 posed to consider it a colour var. with the elytral sculpture acci- dentally wanting in distinctness were it not for the very evident difference in the antennal structure,—the penultimate joint being very much narrower than the antepenultimate and not much less than half again as long as wide, while in the same sex of hemorrhoidalis the penultimate joint is scarcely narrower than the antepenultimate and is scarcely if at all longer than wide. As Lycus atratus, Fab., is very insufficiently described and there cannot be much doubt of this Tasmanian Metriorrhynchus being identical with it I have thought it desirable to describe it fully. Tasmania. M. cliens, sp.nov. Fem. J. clientulo, Waterh., affinis ; niger, in elytrorum partibus tribus anticis ruber; prothorace 5- areolato; rostro nullo; elytris costis longitudinalibus dis- coidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat equalibus), inter- stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus elevatis separantur), sculptura basin—et preesertim apicem—versus quam in medio magis perspicua; antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis 4° —9®° quam longioribus sat latioribus, articulo 3° quam 4"§ sat longiori. lLong., 41.; lat., 12 1. Hasily distinguishable from most of its congeners by the surface of its pronotum being divided into five areole, of which the two antero- lateral ones are coarsely punctulate. Differs from M. chentulus, Waterh., inter alia by the four principal elevated lines on the disc of its elytra being equal inter se, and the hind angles of its prothorax not produced outward. N.S. W. (Tweed R.). M. flagellatus, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytris rufo-testaceis ; prothorace 7-areolato; rostro elongato (tibiz antice longi- tudine sat equali); elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidali- bus 4 instructis (his inter se plus minusve equalibus), interstitiis biseriatim perspicue et regulariter areolatis (series lineis subtiibus elevatis bene definitis separantur) ; antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis 3°—10° longe flabellatis, flabellis haud serratis (ut ea M. gigantis, Blackb., sunt), articuli 3' flabello ultra articuli 5' basin producto. Long., 7 1.; lat., 141. The long slender rami into which the antennal joints of the male are produced distinguish this species from all the other described Australian members of the genus (except gigas, Blackb.) having similar colouring (entirely black except the entirely red elytra). From gigas it differs by its narrower and more elongate form, the distinctly testaceous tone of colour on the elytra, the tendency of the elytral costz to become feebler towards the apex, the narrower prothorax (especially in proportion to the width of 54 the head), and the non-serrate outline of the antennal rami. The antenne resemble those of J. cinctws, Waterh. N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Froggatt near Yass. (His. No. 44.) M. miles, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytris rufis; prothorace 7-areolato ; rostro fere nullo; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat equalibus), inter- stitiis biseriatim arevlatis (series lineis subtilibus distinctis, —his basin versus quam coste vix minus elevatis,—separ- antur); antennis quam corporis dimidium_brevioribus, fortiter compressis, articulis 3° leviter,—4°—10° valde transversis, 4° quam 3"° paullo breviori. Long., 51; lat., 131 This species would be reckoned, I think, by Mr. Waterhouse a true Metriorrhynchus. It differs from ail the species resembling it in respect of colour (except rufipennis, Fab., and brevirostris, Waterh.), by its having scarcely any rostrum. From rufipennis (=salebrosus, Waterh.) it differs inter alia by its still shorter and wider rostrum, by the much shorter and wider joints of its antenne, by the obtuse hind angles of its prothorax, and by the’ much more distinct lines separating the interstitial areolets of its elytra which in the front might be called intermediate coste. M. brevirostris, Waterh., has a diagnosis of only three words, and the appended note merely states that the insect differs faom erythropterus, Er., by ‘“‘the rostrum shorter, scarcely longer than broad.” In the present species the rostrum is very much broader than long. Victoria; Dividing Range. M. mentitor, sp.nov. Fem. Niger, prothoracis elytrorumque lateribus anguste, et horum apice sat late, rufis; rostro fere —nullo; prothorace 7-areolato; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat sequalibus), inter- stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus sat mani- festis separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium vix brevioribus, fortiter compressis, articulis. 3°—10° quam longioribus vix latioribus, 3° 4° que longitudine sat eequali- bus. Long., 6 1.; lat., 2 1. Near MW. ccenosus, Lea, but differing by the hind angles of the prothorax quite obtuse the lines. separating the areole of the elytral interstices very distinct in almost their whole length (a little obscure only in the middle of their length) and the con- siderably larger size of the insect; also in the antennee and legs entirely black. In colour (except in the red edging of its pro- thorax), general build, and elytral sculpture, remarkably like the insect that Mr. Waterhouse described as J. inquinulus, but subsequently (on the ground of its peculiar prothoracic areolation) placed in his genus Stadenus. According to Mr. Waterhouse’s DD arrangement of the Australian Lycides this is a true Metriorrhynchus. Victoria ; Dividing Range. M. paradova, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytrorum apice sat late et margine externo (parte antica excepta) anguste rufis; pro thorace 7-areolato ; rostro nullo; elytris costis longitudinali- bus discoidalibus 4 (his inter se eequalibus) instructis, costis lineis recte transversis (his ut costze eequaliter elevatis) con- junctis ; antennis quam corporis dimidium paullo longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis omnibus (2° excepto) quam latioribus longioribus, articulo 3° quam 1" duplo longiori, 3° —11° longitudine sat zequalibus modice serratis. Long., 41.; Heit elle The well defined seven areole of the prothorax together with the remarkable elytral sculpture render this species easy to recognise. It does not appear to fall into any of the subgenera that Mr. Waterhouse has formed at the expenseof Metriorrhynchus. Each longitudinal costa on the elytra is connected with that next to it by a regular series of perfectly transverse short coste of the same elevation as the longitudinal cost, and there is no trace whatever of intermediate longitudinal lines. Mr. Waterhouse would pernaps place this insect in his genus Xylobanus. Victoria ; Dividing Range. M. erenita, sp.nov. Mas. Niger, prothoracis lateribus mar- gineque antico et elytrorum sutura (anguste) margine laterali (sat late) apiceque (vix in parte elytrorum septima) testaceo- rufis ; rostro latiori quam longiori; prothorace 7-areolato ; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 (his fortiter cariniformibus inter se equalibus) instructis, interstitiis biserlatim areolatis (quam JL. erythropteri, Kr., manifeste minus grosse, preesertim in parte mediana; series lineis subtilibus elevatis sat continue separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium paullo longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulo 3° quam 4" vix longiori, articulis 3°—10° sat fortiter serratis, parte producta quam articuli pars cetera parum breviori. Fem. antennis minus fortiter serratis. Long., 5—64 1.; lat., ERED o Rather closely allied to JL, monticola, Blackb., and margini- pennis, Lea; from the former it differs inter alia by the much less coarse sculpture of the intervals between the elytral costee ; from the latter by inter alia the discoidal cost of the elytra being similar inter se and the structure of the antenne. There is evidently something wrong in the numbering of the joints in the description of the antennee of marginipennis of which it is 56 stated that the “second joint is concealed and the third slightly longer than the second, second to tenth subequal, eleventh elongate.” JI suspect this means that the fourth is slightly longer than the third, but it certainly cannot mean that the third is if anything longer than the fourth, which is the case in the species before me. The colouring of this insect (quite constant in all the examples I have seen) also differs from that of the two species with which I am comparing it, the black discal patch on the elytra extending from the inner margin of the external elytral costa to the outer margin of the sutural carina, and leaving the apex red for the length of scarcely one-seventh part of the length of the elytra. The intermediate longitudinal elevated lines on the elytra are strongest near the base (where they are scarcely different from the cost) and are distinctly traceable nearly to the apex. This insect might be suspected of being a variety of J. lineatus, Waterh., but inter alia its antenne are incompatible, for in the male they resemble those of inquinulum, Waterh. (same sex), as figured by Mr. Waterhouse; while those of dineatus (male,—not figured by Waterhouse) are like Mr. Waterhouse’s figure of the antenne of 7Z7vichalus flavopictus, Waterh. Victoria ; Dividing Range. MW, rufipennis, Fab. I have little doubt that Mr. Waterhouse is right in thinking (though he is not very confident on the point) that his salebrosum is identical with Fabricius’ species. M. marginatus, Er. I should say there is no doubt that M. hemorrhoidalis, Waterh., is identical with this species. I cannot however agree with Mr. Waterhouse (Typ. Br. Mus., Lyc.) that his hemorrhoidalis may be a colour var. of rufipennis, Fab. The two are unquestionably closely allied apart from colour; but there is a very marked difference in the antenne, the produced piece of each joint beginning with the sixth being in rufipennis very much more slender than in hemorrhoidalis (= marginatus, Er.). CALOCHROMUS. C. cucullatus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus; modice convexus; sat nitidus (elytris exceptis); elytris pubescentibus; niger, elytrorum margine laterali et parte postica tertia lete rufis ; labro antice emarginato; antennarum articulis 3° 4° que longitudine sat equalibus; capite antice profunde sulcato ; prothorace fortiter transverso, antice parum angustato, lateribus modice arcuatis, angulis anticis valde obtusis posticis (superne visis) fere rotundatis, disco medio profunde longitudinaliter suleato, sulci lateribus valde gibbis (pre- sertim postice), disci parte postero-externa valde obtuse tumido, basi parum manifeste bisinuata; elytris costis a7 modicis discoidalibus 4 instructis, parte inter suturam costamque subsuturalem in dimidia parte antica sat dis- tincte carinata, interstitiis subtilissime granulosis. Maris clypeo antice profunde trifido, processu intermedio spiniformi suberecto; femoribus anticis incrassatis; seg- mento ventrali penultimo in medio emarginato. Femine clypeo antice minus profunde trifido, processu inter- medio nec spiniformi nec erecto; femoribus simplicibus; seg- mento ventrali penultimo haud emarginato. Long., 44——5} 1; lat., 1?—21. Allied to C. nodicollis, Bourg., but differing from it, inter alia, by the markings of the elytra much more widely than my obser- vation of a good many specimens of Calochromus allows me to think compatible with mere colour variety. The elytra of C’. nodicollis are described as being entirely ochraceous except a narrow basal border, while in the present species their marking consists of a large common patch touching the base but not quite reaching to the lateral margins and extending hindward to the length of two-thirds of the elytra and slightly narrowing towards its apex, so that the red margin gradually widens slightly from its base and the apical one-third of the elytra is entirely red. Thus the black patch bears a rough resemblance to a hood thrown back over the elytra from their base. This marking seems constant. There are various details in which this insect departs otherwise from the description of C. nodicollis ; inter alia the interstices of its elytral coste are said to be rugose whereas in the present species they are excessively finely granulated,— . scarcely more than coriaceous, and nodicollis is said “to a casual inspection to remarkably recall C. scwtellaris, Kr.,” whereas the present insect is a much more robust species of considerably wider form with very much longer antenne. The measurements of C. nodicollis make it fully three times as long as wide; C. cucullatus is distinctly less than three times as long as wide. Of the other previously described Calochromi, none seeni to have the remarkable clypeal sexual characters of this species, —some have the prothorax bicolorous (very remarkably so in C. brevicornis, Lea, and pilosicornis, Lea, in which the prothorax is said to be “‘yvellow tinged with red,” and those having a black prothorax even if the clypeal sexual characters have merely been over- looked in the descriptions,—as may be the case in one or two that I have not seen) present strongly marked differences that make this species very distinct. Victoria; Dividing Range. C. sumillimus, sp. nov. Precedenti (C. cucullato) affinis ; differt elytrorum parte communi nigra antice angusta (ultra costam primam haud extensa) sat longe ante medium dilatata (sicut 58 hine fere ad apicem costam tertiam fere attinet) ante apicem sat abrupte truncata, prothoracis basi sat fortiter bisinuata (sicut. certo adspectu anguli postici nonnihil retrorsum directi videntur). lLong.,.541.; lat., 14 1 Apart from the characters noted above the description of C. cucullata is an accurate description of this insect, and therefore need not be repeated. The markings of the elytra are identical in all the specimens that I have seen. The difference in the form of the base of the prothorax furnishes a satisfactory structural character. S. Australia ; Adelaide District. C. rostratus, sp. nov. Elongatus; minus convexus; minus nitidus; supra pubescens; niger, prothoracis lateribus et elytris totis aurantiaco-rufis; capite minus porrecto, antice rostro manifesto (hoc quam longiori sat latiori) instructo, inter oculos longitudinaliter minus profunde canaliculato ; prothorace transversim subquadrato, longitudinaliter canali- culato (antice subtiliter, postice profunde), transversim carina obtusa (hac in medio minus perspicua) sinuatim antrorsum ex angulis posticis arcuata instructo, disco postice tuherculis obtusis 2 munitis, Jateribus sinuatim subrectis, basi leviter bisinuata, angulis anticis fere nullis posticis fere rectis ; elytris striatis, interstitiis angustis leviter convexis (alternis quain cetera vix magis definitis); antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, modice compressis, articulis 3° 4° que longitudine sat equalibus. Maris segmento ventrali septimo profunde emarginato. ~ Femine segmento ventrali septimo profunde fere ad basin triangulariter impresso et ad apicem emarginato. Long., 41; lat; 12 1) (viz). The comparatively slight exsertion of the head in this species together with the presence of a distinct rostrum and the scarcely noticeable dilatation of the front femora in the male renders this species very distinct from any other Australian Calochromus known tome. All these characters, however, seem to be present in some of the species from other countries described in Mr. Waterhouse’s monograph of the genus (Cist. Ent., IT.), the essen- tial character of Calochromus among the Lycides being there regarded as the “absence from the elytra of distinct. carine separated by rows of punctures” together with the presence of seven ventral segments. In the species before me an excessively short basal ventral segment is certainly present in the male ; in the female I am not so sure of there being seven segments but probably there is an extremely short basal one which would be discernible if the hind body were broken off. The sculpture of the prothorax also differs from that of any other Australian D9 Calochromus that I have seen; a thick wheal-like edging com- mences at the posterior angles and proceeds a very short distance along the lateral margin and then curves inward and arches across the middle of the disc, being however narrowly interrupted on the middle line by the longitudinal median impression. There is an obtuse gibbosity on either side of the middle line imme- diately in front of the base and a somewhat deep excavation immediately within the hind angles. The prothorax is entirely margined with a thickened edging which however is not so thick as the wheal-like carina that crosses the disc. S. Australia; taken by Mr. Jung on Yorke’s Peninsula. TENEBRIONID. CHALCOPTERUS. C. Kochi, sp. nov. Sat cylindricus ; sat nitidus; niger, elytris metallico-versicoloribus (in disco cceruleis, latera versus aureo- viridescentibus, suturam versus purpurascentibus); capite erebre sat equaliter punctulato, inter oeulos quam anten- narum articuli basalis longitudo fere angustiori; sulcis ocularibus nullis; antennis quam corporis dimidium sat brevioribus, articulo 3° quam 1™ 2" que conjuncti manifeste longiori, quam 4° 5°° que conjuncti manifeste breviori, articulis 8°—10° quam preecedentes multo brevioribus ; pro- thorace quam longiori fere duplo (postice quam antice duplo) latiori, crebre subtiliter distincte sat equaliter punctulato, lateribus (superne visis) pone medium fere parallelis, basi media sat anguste sublobata, angulis anticis obtusis ; elytris eequaliter sat subtiliter (quam C! How7vtte, Pasc., vix minus subtiliter) postice magis subtiliter seriatim punctulatis, interstitiis planis subtiliter (quam series permulto magis snbtiliter) vix crebre punctulatis; prosterno sat distincte carinato; metasterno distincte punctulato et fortiter oblique riugato, episternis opacis leviter punctulatis; tarsis subtus nigro setosis, posticorum articulo basali quam 4% haud multo longiori1; abdomine modice punctulato et longitudinaliter rugato. lLong., 941; lat., 441. This extremely fine species is allied to C. cwpreus, Fab., brevipes, Blackb., and grandis, Macl. From cupreus it differs unter alia by its entirely different colouration and (presuming my identification of that species to be correct) by its much more cylindrical form, very much more slender antenne with quite differently proportioned joints and seriate punctures of elytra becoming much finer in the apical third; from brevipes it differs inter alia by its notably wider prothorax and much finer punc- turation of the elytral interstices (so that the elytral series stand out much more conspicuously); and from grandis inter alia by. 60 the much shorter basal joint of its hind tarsi. IJ am doubtful of the sex of the example before me (it is difficult to determine the sex of a Chalcopterus unless both sexes can be examined), but it is probably a female. In my tabulation of Chalcopterus (P.LS., N.S.W., 1893) this species may be placed beside cuprews, Fab. (p. 60) though its prothorax is not quite “fully” twice as wide as long (but it is notably wider than in brevipes), from which it may be thus distinguished :— J. Prothorax twice (or all but twice) as wide as long. K. Seriate puncturation of elytra not enfeebled behind [cupreus, Fab. ] KK. Seriate puncturation of elytra pecans very feeble near apex ... Kochi, Blackb. S. Australia ; Basin of Lake we sent by Herr Max Koch. C. gracilicornis, Blackb. (Tr. R. S., S.A., 1899) py fo) Side habitat of this species is N.W. Australia. C. mundus, Blackb. (l.c., p. 48). The habitat of this species is N. Queensland. RHIPIDOPHORIDZE. EVANIOCERA. E. persimilis, sp. nov. Mas. Picea, elytris rufescentibus; minus nitida; confertim subtiliter punctulata; cinereo-pubescens (lineatim in elytris); oculis modicis, subapproximatis (inter- Spatio quam antennarum articuli basalis longitudo parum latiori separatis); antennarum articulis 1° compresso breviter piriformi, 2° parvo transverso, ceteris ramos elongatos singulos emittentibus, articuli 3’ ramo quam ceterorum paullo breviori (a ramo articuli 4’ vix longius quam ramus articuli 4' a ramo articuli 5' remoto); prothorace conico, basi bisinuata, lateribus (superne visis) vix sinuatis ; elytris postice minus angustatis. Femine antennarum articulis (basalibus 2 exceptis) sat t fortiter serratis. Long., 244? 1.; lat., 1—141. Closely allied to HF. Meyriata Blackb., with similar elytral pattern (about six narrow vitte of whitish pubescence on each elytron) and the same number (nine) of antennal rami; differing from it in the ramus of the third joint being fully three-fourths of the length of the longest ramus (in Meyrick it is scarcely more than half) and scarcely more distant from the second ramus than the second ramus is from the third. It is moreover a more robust insect, less narrowed behind, with the prothorax less elongate and having posterior angles less strongly directed hind- ward. The other previously described species having nine antennal rami are pruinosa, Gerst., and perthensis, Blackb., neither of which has elytra marked with longitudinal pubescent vitte ; moreover pruinosa has the first antennal ramus even shorter than that of Meyrick, a much more elongate prothorax, 61 &e.; while in perthensis, inter alia, the antennal rami are all less elongate and the antennal joints are shorter so that all the rami are notably more closely packed together than in the present my knowledge seen, the antenne of which are not exactly species. The two species of the genus that I have not to described, are Gerstdckeri, Macl., and Gerstdckeri {| Macl.?], Champ. which are so differently coloured that they are not at all likely to be identical with the present species. The rest of the described species have only eight antennal rami in the male. In my tabulation of the species of Hvaniocera (Tr. Roy. Soc., 8.A., 1899, p. 52) this species will stand beside £. perthensis, Blackb., from which it mzy be distinguished thus :— C. Eyes divided a Wi ee perthensis, Blackb. CC. Eyes normally emarginate ... ae ... persimilis, Blackb. Victoria; in my collection; also in the collection of Mr. French. E. perthensis, Bleckb. When I described this species (l.c., p. 93) I did not notice the remarkable character mentioned above. In HE. nervosa, Meyricki, &c., the eyes are very deeply emarginate, but the two lobes are connected perfectly distinctly ; while in this species the two lobes are» absolutely disconnected, so that the insect has four eyes,—a character which may perhaps have to be treated as generic eventually. EMENADIA. L. difficilis, Blackb.-(Tr. R.S., 8.A., 1899, p. 55). The habitat. of this species is South Australia. CURCULIONID. BARIS. B. orchivora, Blackb. Sat lata; minus nitida; glabra; picea (nonnullorum exemplorum elytris latera versus rufescent- ibus); rostro quam prothorax sublongiori, compresso, apicem versus nitido fortiter crebre punctulato et longitudinaliter strigato, scrobibus subtus conniventibus; oculis subtiliter granulatis ; antennarum scapo oculum fere attingenti ; pro- thorace confertim subgrosse punctulato; scutello modico granulato; elytris a basi retrorsum leviter angustatis, fortiter striatis, striis indistincte cancellatis, interstitiis crebre granulatis ; femoribus sat elongatis vix clavatis, dente parvo armatis ; tiblarum unco apicali parvo horizontali; unguiculis subparallelis, ad basin fere connatis. Long. (rostr. excl.), 1201; lat., 41. A very distinct species. It was bred in Sydney from the stems of a Queensland Orchid (Dendrobium sp.) and sent to me by Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 62 BRUCHIDA:. BRUCHUS. 5. lyndhurstensis, sp. nov. Rufo-castaneus, capite antennis apicem versus metasterno elytorum sutura maculisque nonnullis lateralibus et tarsorum apice obscurioribus ; supra pube ochracea et albida indeterminate variegatus ; subtus cum pygidio sat dense albido-pubescens ; capite modice elongato minus lato (fere ut (4. rufimanus, Schonh.) inter oculos longitudinaliter carinato ; oculis subtiliter granulato (ut B. rufimanus); antennis sat brevibus sat robustis, articulis 5°—10° inter se sat equalibus leviter transversis leviter serratis ; prothorace conico, crebre subtiliter aspere punctulato ; elytris subtiliter striatis, interstiis planis ut prothorax punctulatis ; femoribus posticis inermibus. Maris segmento basali ventrali fovea magna circulari (hace pube subtili flava in funda vestita)impresso. Long., 1 1; lat., 21 Variat antennis minus obscuris, capite postice testaceo, elytris in sutura et ad latera magis late obscuris, pygidio nigro- maculato vel fere omnino nigro, femoribus posticis plus minusve obscuris. A most variable species, if I am right in considering the speci- mens before me (which were taken by myself and others, in Central Australia in seeds of Cassia) as representing only a single species. The most distinctive character seems to be that on the basal ventral segment of the male, consisting in the presence of a large shallow circular impression placed anteriorly, and having a diameter equal to about two-thirds of the length of the segment on the median line. In some examples this impression is more » sharply defined on the hind part of its outline than in others, and in some its floor is covered with fine yellow pubescence, which is wanting in others. I take these differences to be caused partly by abrasion and partly to be an instance of the variability in respect of development of sexual character so often found in species where such characters are of a very pronounced type. Only one species (B. perpastus, Lea) of Bruchus with unarmed hind femora has hitherto been described as Australian, and un- fortunately the description of that insect does not refer to sexual characters—but its stating that the insect is black and of almost circular outline, with a triangular scutellum, seem to indicate clearly that it is not much like the present insect. In the species I am describing the scutellum is somewhat quadrangular, though appearing of different form according to degree of abrasion, posi- tion of prothorax, &c., but not definitely triangular in any speci- men. In Mr. Lea’s tabulation of Bruchi (Proc. L.S8., N.S.W., 1898, pp. 637-8) the place of this species is beside B. perpastus, ea. 63 Central Australia; Oodnadatta, Lyndhurst (Koch), Leigh’s Creek, &c. B. Oodnadatig, sp. nov. Nigricans, antennis sordide testaceis apicem versus vix infuscatis, pedibus testaceis, femoribus (preesertim posticis) plus minusve nigricantibus, elytris ad apicem plus minusve distincte rufescentibus ; supra pube nigricanti et albida indeterminate variegatus, subtus cum pygidio sat dense albido-pubescens ; femoribus posticis ante apicem denticulo manifesto sed minuto armatis ; cetera ut 5. lyndhurstensis. Maris segmento basali ventrali antice fovea parva ovali leviter impresso. Differs from the preceding by its very different colouring, by the presence of an extremely small denticulation on the hind femora and by the very much smaller fovea (which is elongate oval, not circular) on the basal ventral segment of the male. In some examples the elytra are only vaguely reddish at the apex, in others there is an extremely well defined bright red apical spot. In Mr. Lea’s tabulation of Bruchi (loc. cit.) the place of this species is beside diversipes, Lea, from which it differs inter alia by the minute size of the tooth on its hind femora. Central Australia. B. diversipes, Lea. I have an example of this species courte- ously sent me by Mr. Lea, and also numerous specimens of the larger insect from W. Australia, which he dubiously identities with it. I doubt the identity of the two, although I cannot find any good structural character to distinguish them. Unfortunately my specimen of typical diversipes is a female. The basal ventral segment of the male of the larger insect is without any sexual fovea. Perhaps an examination ‘of a male diversipes from N.S. Wales might show a valid distinction on the basal ventral segment. B. quornensis, sp. nov. Niger, antennarum articulis basalibus 4, elytrorum disco apiceaue et pedibus (femorum basi et tarsorum apice exceptis) rufo-testaceis ; supra pube albida et testacea vel rufa variegatus; subtus cum pygidio minus dense albido-pubescens; capite modice elongato, inter oculos longitudinaliter carinato; oculis sat subtiliter granulatis ; antennis sat elongatis, articulis 5°—10° robustis. leviter serratis ; prothorace transversim trapezoidali, antice minus fortiter angustato, crebre subtiliter ruguloso, elytris sub- tiliter punctulato-striatis, interstitiis planis fere ut pro- thorax asperis sed paullo magis subtiliter; femoribus posticis dente parvo acuto armatis. Maris segmento basali ventrali nullo modo foveolato. Long., ilterlath yeni. 64 Variable in the colouring of the elytra. The base, suture and lateral margins are broadly piceous or black, but in some examples somewhat mottled with whitish or castaneous pubescence ; the rest of the surface (a broad discal patch not reaching the base) is of lighter colour and is variegated with whitish and slightly reddish pubescence not differing much in colour, but each shade running longitudinally so as to give a faintly striped appearance ; abraded examples have black elytra with a wide reddish discal vitta not reaching the base. The antenne have their fifth and following joints much wider in comparison with the fourth joint than in the species described above, causing the antenne to appear as consisting of a stem of four joints and a long serrate club of seven joints (the first three joints of which gradually increase in size). The tooth on the hind femora is much larger than that of Bb. Oodnadatie but a little smaller than that of B. diversipes and does not seem to vary in development. In Mr. Lea’s tabulation of Bruchi this species stands beside J. despicatus, Lea, from which it differs inter alia by the basal four (not three) joints of its antennz testaceous and their series of serrate joints beginning with the fifth (not the fourth). S. Australia ; Quorn. B. fabe, Fab. I presume that the insect which Mr. Tryon reported (Tr. Nat. Hist. Soc., Brisbane, vol. I.) as B. obtectus, Say, is this species. Mr. Tryon does not say why he prefers Say’s name; it is to be noted however that it is later than that of Fabricius. S. pisit, Linu. Ina note to his remarks on Aruchus (loc. cit.) Mr. Lea quotes Mr. Tryon as having reported a species from Queensland as “ B. pyri.” Mr. Tryon, however, has no such name, but mentions ‘“‘ B. pisorum.” I presume both names are intended for 4. psi, Linn.,—indeed in the body of his paper Mr. Lea mentions 4. pisz (without an author’s name) apparently as the same species which in the note he calls pyrvz. Bb. persimulans, sp. nov. Niger, antennis (his nonnullorum exemplorum articulos 6°—10° plus minusve infuscatos prebentibus), pedibusque (horum femoribus posticis basin versus et tarsorum articulo ultimo obscuris) testaceis, elytris rufis nigro-cinctis (apice rufo excepto); sat zqualiter cinereo- pubescens ; antennarum articulis 4°—10° sat robustis leviter serratis ; elytrorum interstitiis quam prothorax multo magis subtiliter sculpturatis, vix asperis; cetera ut B. guornensis. Maris segmento basali ventrali nullo modo foveolato. Long., 121; lat., 2 1, vix. Except in respect of the characters mentioned above, the description of B quorxensis applies to this species also. The 65 colouring of the derm in the two insects is very similar, but the pubescence of the elytra differs considerably, a fresh specimen of guornensis having a very mottled appearance while a fresh speci- men of persimulans has an even vestiture of whitish pubescence. The present insect is considerably larger than guornensis and has very different antenne, there being much less difference in size between the fourth and fifth joints and the fifth and sixth joints being inter se equally dilated, while in guornensis the fifth joint is notably less dilated than the sixth. B. persimulans also has a good deal of colour resemblance to partially abraded examples of some varieties of B. lyndhurstensis, but is readily distinguished from it by its longer antennez, black prothorax, as well as by the presence of a tooth on the hind femora and the absence of sexual characters on the basal ventral segment. This species does not fit into any of the groups in Mr. Lea’s tabulation, not having its prothorax and elytra either both red or both black. Central Australia ; Oodnadatta. PHYTOPHAGA. MEGASCELOIDES. M. circumcinectus, sp. nov. Fem. Minus elongatus; pubescens ; piceus, antennarum basi capite prothorace antice elytris (marginibus totis anguste piceis exceptis) pedibusque rutfis ; capite brevi lato sat fortiter punctulato; antennis filiformi- bus quam corporis dimidium sublongioribus; prothorace quam longiori plus quam sesquilatiori, subquadrato, convexo, subtiliter inzqualiter punctulato, marginibus omnibus sat rectis, angulis anticis subdentiformibus posticis obtusis ; elytris sat crebre minus subtiliter punctulatis, lineis vix elevatis longitudinalibus circiter 3 instructis; femoribus leviter incrassatis. Long., 321.; lat., 121. (vix). The insect described above has been in my collection for some considerable time placed doubtfully as belonging to the Megascelides. Mr. French has recently sent me an insect closely allied to it which being a male I can identify confidently with Mr. Jacoby’s genus Megasceloides (it is probably the typical species) ; and by comparing my species with it I have satisfied myself that the former is a female of the same genus. It differs from the male in what are likely to be sexual characters by the intermediate joints of its antenne scarcely dilated and its less strongly dilated femora. Specifically it differs from U. pallidus by its colouring (the prothorax piceous with its anterior one- third testaceous and the elytra narrowly and abruptly edged all round with piceous black), by its notably more transverse pro- thorax, the front angles of which are dentiform, and by the less numerous elevated lines on its elytra. W. Australia. a) 66 EDUSA. The following species while certainly, I think, a member of the group Hdusites, differs from typical members of the genus Edusa by its unusually narrow parallel form and its entirely glabrous upper surface. Five Hdusoid genera have been recorded as Australian, viz., Edusa, Edusoides, Clepter, Thawmastomerus and Ocnida. The insect before me certainly cannot be attributed to the second or third of those genera,—but the last two do not appear to me to have been satisfactorily differentiated from Edusa. Thawmastomerus was unknown to Dr. Chapuis (as it is to me) and he conjectured that it ought not to be separated from Edusa. Of Ocnida he says that its diagnosis does not contain any tangible character for identification,—in which opinion I agree with him. The following species is not any of those that have been attributed to those genera, and so far as I] can make anything of the generic diagnoses it does not agree with them, nor can I find any marked structural character inconsistent with its place in Hdusa which (as Dr. Chapius conceived it) included forms widely differing in superficial characters. EF. angustula, sp. nov. Sat angusta, sat parallela ; supra g glabra; subtus pilis erectis brevibus gracilibus sparsim vestita ; metallico-versicolora (viridis, aureo cupreoque varie micans), antennis (his apicem versus infuscatis) palpis labro pedi- busque testaceis; capite verticali, sparsius subtilius punc- tulato; antennis filiformibus apicem versus parum incras- satis, quam corporis dimidium parum longiorvibus ; prothorace leviter transverso, ut caput (latera versus magis crebre) punctulato, antice modice angustato, lateribus arcuatis, angulis anticis obtusis nullo modo productis, posticis obtusis (his, in prosterno visis, dentiformibus); elytris crebre punc- tulatis, apicem versus nonnihil punctulato-striatis, totis fortiter rugatis ; femoribus (sexus observati) haud dentatis sed subtus late subangulatim dilatatis. Long., 21. lat., 41. In my tabulation of the species of Hdusa (Tr. R.S., 8.A., 1891, pp. 142-3) this insect falls beside glabra (at the end of the table) from which it may be thus distinguished :— C. Form widely oval — es Pe ... glabra, Blackb. CC. Form narrowly parallel Be ... angustula, Blackb. T have seen four examples of this spec among which [ find no conspicuous sexual differences. Probably they are all females. “W.A.;-sent by Mr. French. RUPILIA. R. angulaticollis, sp. nov. Ovata; minus nitida; supra obscure cerulescens, capite antice antennis (apice excepto) pro- thoracis marginibus omnibus scutelloque plus minusyve 67 distinete rutescentibus; subtus obscure rufa, abdomine obscure ceruleo viridimicanti, pedibus piceis plus minusve rufescentibus; capite inter antennas longitudinaliter excavato minus perspicue punctulato, postice planato sparsim sat grosse vix fortiter punctulato ; antennis robustis minus elongatis, articulis 1° 3° 4° que longitudine inter se sat equalibus; prothorace quam longiori duplo latiori, erebre aspere vix rugulose punctulato, margine antico quam basalis vix angustior1 (ambobus sensim elevatis), lateribus ante medium fortiter angulatis (hinc antrorsum et retror- sum convergentibus); elytris parum debiscentibus,. haud longitudinaliter impressis, crebre minus subtiliter subaspere nec rugulose punctulatis; scutello lato, fere ut elytra punctulato. Maris elytris ultra segmentum ventrale penultimum atting- entibus minus latis; feminze segmenti penultimi medium vix attingentibus sat Jatis. Long., 3—341.; lat., 12]1.—21. Differs from RF. ruficollis, Clk., inter alia, by its much more strongly transverse prothorax and its much longer elytra. R. viridi-enea, Clk., is not described in a manner to allow of very satisfactory comparison, but the present species is very differently coloured, and the phrase “capite inter oculos transverse foveolato” does not describe at all correctly the sculpture of the head of the present species.. In &. impressa, Blackb., and brevipennis, Blackb., inter alia multa, the prothorax is very much more nitid and less conspicuously punctulate. R. rugulosa, Blackb., has very much more rugulose sculpture, and R. excelsa, Blackb., besides being very differently coloured has anter alia, a less transverse prothorax (its width to its length down the middle as 8 to 5) which is traversed by a very strong and conspicuous transverse sulcus. N. Queensland. Rk. approximans, sp. nov. Ovata; modice nitida; obscure ruf- escens, elytris obscure cyaneis violaceo-tinctis ; capite spars- issime punctulato, linea longitudinali subtili impresso, hac ut fovea elongata prufunda inter antennas dilatata ; antennis elongatis, articulo 3° quam ceteri sat longiori; prothorace quam longiori sesquilatiori, longitudinaliter late canaliculato, subfortiter minus crebre (ad latera sat crebre), punctulato, latitudine majori antice sita, margine antico late elevato- crassato, lateribus (desuper visis) ab apice ultra medium leviter subrecte (hinc ad basin valde fortiter) convergentibus ; elytris modice dehiscentibus, a basi retrorsum breviter minus perspicue impressis, confertim subtilius punctulatis ; scutello modico. 68 Maris arntennis ultra elytra media attingentibus; elytris segmentum ventrale penultimum medium attingentibus. Feminz antennis elytrisque nonnihil brevioribus. Var. elytris antice suturam versus rufescentibus. Long., 44— 54.1; lat., 2—22 1. Differs from the deseription and figure of &. ruficollis, Clk., and brevipennis, Biackb., inter alia, by its much longer and more ample elytra, from R. viridienea, Clk., by the same characters as angulaticollis differs by, from rugulosa, Blackb., by its non rugulose sculpture, from .angulaticollis by its very different antenne, and from eacelsa, Blackb., by the sculpture of its pro- thorax. It is near &. zmpressa, Blackb., but differs from it by the strongly and widely thickened front margin of its prothorax, the much closer and more distinct puncturation of that segment, &c. In &. impressa there is a transverse ill defined gibbosity on the prothorax, but it is situated distinctly behind the front margin. N. Queensland. MONOLEPTA. . M. cognata, Blackb. This insect,—described from N. Queens- land,—has been sent to me by Mr. French as taken in W. Australia. COCCINELLID ©. LIPERNES. This name (which I used for a Coccinellid genus, Tr. R.S., S.A., 1888, p. 211) I find had been previously used by Mr. Waterhouse for a genus of Lycides. I therefore propose as a substitute for my name WVoftolipernes. 69 SULYANITE: A NEW MINERAL. By G. A. Goyper. (Read June 5, 1900.] Some specimens were sent to the Assay Department of the Adelaide School of Mines and Industries for assay for copper by Mr. E. Meylan, of Port Pirie, who stated that they were obtained from a new mine near the Burra. During the analysis for copper I found that they contained vanadium, and therefore wrote for further samples, which Mr. Meylan promptly sent. On examination these proved to consist of malachite, azurite, vanadium ochre, quartz, calcite, gypsum, and a metallic mineral, consisting principally of copper, sulphur, and vanadium. A small piece of this mineral, as free as possible from associated minerals, was powdered and digested with acetic acid (which removed some malachite and calcite), washed, dried, and analysed. There was not sufficient for an accurate analysis in detail, but the following figures were obtained :— Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Copper, 58°82 Vanadium, 11:88 Sulphur, 26:44 the balance being silica, lime, and a trace of iron. The ratio of copper to vanadium was confirmed by a duplicate analysis of a smaller sample by a different method of analysis. The mineral was found to contain nc sulphur in the form of sulphate, and on heating in a ciosed tube it gave off no sulphur, from which it would appear that the copper must be in the form of Cu,S, with the vanadium as V,S,. The ratio of Cu,S to VS, in the sample analysed is 34 to 1, but an analysis of some other specimens not so pure proved them to contain an oxidized vanadium mineral with a smaller relative proportion of copper, so that the composition of the mineral is most probably 4Cu,§, V,S,, which constitutes it a basic sulpho-vanadite of copper.* The samples sent me were all in a more or less oxidized form, and as the mineral is not distinctly crystalline, and is penetrated by oxidised products almost throughout, its physical properties cannot be accurately ascertained. *Subsequent analyses show that the mineral is a sulpho-vanadate of copper, 3Cu,S, V.S,. 70 The lustre appears sub-metallic, and the colour bronze, the specific gravity over 4, and the hardness 3:5. As far as I can ascertain from the publications to hand, there is no record of any unoxidized vanadium mineral. Mr. Meylan has promised to send me some further samples, and should the mine be worked deep enough, some of the pure unoxidised mineral may yet come to hand, in which case further analyses will be made and the physical properties more accurately ascertained. 71 EVIDENCES OF EXTINCT GLACIAL ACTION IN SOUTHERN YORKE’S PENINSULA. By Watrer Howcuiy, F.G.S. [Read June 5, 1900. } Glacial deposits have already been described in the Transac- tions of this Society as occurring on the eastern and southern shores of Gulf St. Vincent, and in most cases such deposits extend seawards and pass from view below low-water mark. It may, therefore, be inferred that the southern portion of the present gulf occupies an eroded hollow or depression in what was formerly an extended area of glacial till. On this assumption it seemed highly probable that the southern portions of Yorke’s Peninsula would be included in the extinct glacial field, This supposition has been amply confirmed by discoveries made during Easter week of the present year. The southern portions of the Peninsula have a lateral extension, shaped like a human foot ; the northern and southern coasts of this area were visited, and very instructive sections of the glacial beds were observed, whilst many localities inland furnished confirmatory evidences of the previous existence of ice on a large scale. SOUTHERN Coast. Troubridge Hill.—The first locality visited was Troabnides Hill, about ten miles from Edithburg, in a south-west direction, via Honiton. The sea-cliffs near the Hill are composed of cal- ciferous sandstones capped by travertine limestone. The sea breaks at the base of the cliffs, which are being rapidly under. mined. At a distance of about half a mile to the west from Troubridge Hill the base of the Eocene beds is exposed, and the latter are seen to rest on an eroded surface of glacial till. The Eocene beds ‘are here reduced in thickness to a layer of three feet, consisting of loosely held comminuted fragments of polyzoa, with countless numbers of the small echinoderm, /rbularia gregata. The occurrence of this echinoid in the bed referred to fully justi- fies its specific name, as it is mostly aggregated in clusters, varying in size up to a foot in diameter. The following is a section of the cliffs as seen at this spot :— 1. Recent —Travertine limestone ae wen LOlieet 2. Hocene-—Fossiliferous (Libularia gregata) limestone aris 3. Pre-Tertiary—Glacial till with erratics; thickness unknown ; height exposed above sea level ‘i Onn 72 The till has the character of a red clay with bluish streaks, and rises suddenly in the cliff face in the form of one or two nodular inliers, around and over which the sediments of the Eocene sea has gathered. The clay carries erratics to a limited extent, but numerous stones of this character, liberated by the waste of the cliffs, lie at their base and along the beach. About a mile further to the westward the glacial clay is again seen in a much more important exposure, extending in a line of cliffs for about a mile in an east and west direction. The cliff face has a maximum height of about 50 feet, and the thickness and character of the strata vary within the distances of a few yards in a very remarkable manner. The following two sections ean be seen on the same horizon within a distance of less than one hundred yards :— EASTERN SECTION. 1. Recent —Travertine limestone ae, ae 2.2) 20 tees Dark-coloured clay... 3, OE 2. Pre-Tertiary | White and pink-coloured argillaceous (Glacial)— | sands, base not exposed; ‘thickness above sea level mp spe wc, eee WESTERN SECTION. Travertine limestone mi or 2) ie 1. Recent— Calcareous sand rock, (?) raised beach 8) ist Travertine limestone Gus Dark to reddish clay .. . Gnas 2. Pre-Tertiary | White kaolinised clay with red patches, (Glacial)—| angular grit and erratics; thickness above sea level san ae In the second of the above cliff seStiods there is what may be a raised beach deposit intercolated between two beds of travertine. It 1s composed, to the extent of three-fourths ‘of its mass, of water-worn calcareous sand, and the remainder of fine quartz sand. The bed does not exhibit false bedding, as it would probably have done had it been wind blown, and, in weathering, it splits up by vertical jointing which gives it an appearance of a decomposed basaltic rock. If it be a raised beach, the lower bed of travertine in the section re- presents an old land surface that was (subsequent to its forma- tion) submerged below high-water mark, and, at a later period, was raised again and received its second deposit of travertine limestone. The white kaolinised glacial clay of this section is a re- markable bed, and has a peculiar chalk-like appearance as seen in the cliff face, but the presence of undoubted erratics scattered promiscuously through its mass, places its origin 73 beyond question.. The erratics of the coast show that the ice must have passed over a granitic country in which the felspathic constituents of the rock greatly preponderated, and the kaolinised features of the clay on some parts of this coast may be caused by the waste produced by such a fel- spathic bed rock. The beach in front of this line of outcrop is strewn with erratics of all sizes—quartzites and granites being in greatest numbers. One of these, a large tabular mass of coarse- grained, pink-colored, porphyritic granite, lying between tide marks, measured fully twenty feet in diameter. The Eocene beds are absent from this section. Port Moorowve is situated on the southern coast about ten miles south-west of Yorketown, and about six miles west of the glacial beds near Troubridge Hill, already described. A good exposure of boulder clay, carrying numerous erratics, extends for about a mile near the jetty, chiefly on its eastern side. The beds as seen in section in the cliffs make a low anticline with a maximum height of about 36 ft., exhibiting the following order : — 1. Recent—Travertine and calcareous marls_... eee Loess Reddish clay, with pipeclay bands ... 10 “ 2. Pre-Tertiary ne to bluish clay, with dark-red (Glacial)—| patchesand streaks, carrying erratics ; thickness exposed above sea level ... 11 “ The boulder clay of this section shows a general resemblance to the beds of the same age observed on the coast further to the east, and which have already been described. In the westerly outcrops of the Troubridge Hill beds (as also at Port Moorowie), the upper part of the clay, varying from six to ten feet in thickness, is apparently marked off from the under-. lying clay by a bedding plane. I saw no stones in this upper layer, the absence of which: may raise some doubt as to its glacial origin, although such negative evidence cannot be taken as conclusive, as considerable bodies of un- doubted glacial clay sometimes occur in South Australia in which no erratics are visible. I have included the layer in question provisionally in the glacial series, but further observations may show that it consists of re-arranged material from the underlying till bed, and belongs to a later period. Erratics of small to moderate size are common on the beach at Port Moorowie. At one mile east from the jetty « boulder of grey granite, with large crystals of orthoclase giving it a porphyritic character, was observed, and measured at seven feet by four feet. 74 NorTHERN Coast. Point Turton.—An interesting geological section was found at Point ‘lurton, situated on the shores of Hardwicke Bay, about six miles in a north-westerley direction from Warooka. The clifis present a good face of rock as the Eocene limestone, of which the cliffs are chiefly composed, have been quarried for flux. The section that is exposed near the jetty is a very remarkable one, as it embraces no less than four distinct geological formations separated by three lines of uncon- formability. The following is the order of occurrence : — 1. Recent—Travertine limestone, variable in thickness up to 8 ae a ad ae ... 20 feet f Reddish, mottled clay, preserved in 2. Miocene— eroded hollows of lower Tertiary | limestone ; thickness 7/ to... cay eee tae Nia tows x Pink-coloured fossiliferous limestone ; aa variable in thickness up to... sn) oe 4. Pre- Renan eee a clay, with Bocas erratics ; Glacial) — thickness unknown ; ease above ( ay low water... P 15. « The Miocene clay is best seen a: a spot ‘nome a , iaweee yards west of the jetty, and has been preserved from denuda- tion through occupying an eroded trench in the Eocene lime- stone, the latter having been nearly cut through tye the eroding agents. The “Eocene limestone of the section is, as a whole, an ex- tremely compact and pure carbonate of lime. It has been subjected to considerable alteration and reconstruction 27 situ, a secondary deposit of calcium carbonate having been precipitated within the interstices of the fossiliferous bed: imparting to it a greater compactness. In some places most beautiful slabs of polyzoal stone, with the fronds weathered into strong relief, can be seen. The great purity of the stone makes it valuable as a fluxing agent. The Eocene beds rest unconformably on the eroded surface of the glacial clay, the line of junction being very sharp. The boulder clay is exposed for some distance in a variable thickness up to fifteen feet, and passes below sea Jevel. The varying thickness of the bed is evidently the result of subzrial waste that took place in pre-Tertiary times, before the old land surface was submerged by the Eocene sea. The clay is very compact, except where it is subjected to wave action below high-water mark, and even in that position it main- tains a sood hard floor that can be walked over without dis~ comfort. 75 Immediately under the Tertiary limestone the clay is much impregnated with dendritic manganese, and the upper por- tion of the bed, notably the first three feet, is largely iron- stained. Many of the included boulders have formed a centre of segregation for the peroxide of iron, being thickly coated with this substance, giving them an appearance of nodular ironstone. When broken, however, the unaltered stone is seen to occur below the ferruginous ¢rust. Beneath this iron-stained layer the clay is dark-colored in shades of bluish-black. | When seen in plan on the beach (horizontal to the bedding), an extensive system of jointing can be re- cognised, the joint planes crossing each other at various angles. The erratics contained in the clay are for the most } art strongly striated or polished by ice action. The shingle of the beach consists mainly of erratics that have been liberated from the boulder clay through wave action on the cliffs. A large granite boulder occupies a position between tide marks, and measures three feet six inches in height. InLAND LOCALITIES. (a) Warooka.—The township of Warooka stands on a hill of boulder clay that has been eroded on three sides. On the .north side of the township in Section 200 (Hundred of Moorowie), a dam has been excavated in this clay. Abovt a dozen small erratics—chiefly quartzite and granite—weie eounted within a short distance of the excavation. The cut crop becomes more characteristic as it 1s followed around the eastern and southern sides of the ridge, in Section No. 201. Near the extremity of the eastern spur a granite boulder, two feet in diameter, lies in the paddock. There are also about a dozen smaller fragments of granite lying around, which have probably been broken from the larger mass. ‘The stone. is coarse-grained with large crystals of orthoclase, in bunches and veins, resembling the granitic outcrops at Corney Point. On the south side of the ridge is another erratic of yink- colored granite, carrying black mica, about the same size as the one just described; and not far distant from the last- mentioned a third erratic was found, being a close-grained bluish quartzite, with polished face, and heavily scratched. he outcrop of boulder clay was followed across the road dividing the Hundreds of Moorowie and Para Wurlie, and more granites were picked up in Section No. 23 of the latter Hundred. A few small weathered pic es. of Hocene limestone were seen on the north flanks of Virooka Hill, but whether such are the remains of a small outiier of rocks of this age in the 76 neighborhood, or were carried there, I am unable to say. To all appearance the only deposit superior to the glacial clay in the neighborhood is a thin crust of travertine lime- stone which lies directly on the boulder clay. (0) Corney Point Road—A large erratic occurs near the main road from Warooka to Corney Point. it is situated on the north side within about twenty yards of the road in Section No. 148, Hundred of Carribie, about two miles east of the Dairy Station, and seven miles from Corney Point. tts large size and isolated character has attracted general attention in the district, and has been recorded on the Go- vernment Map as the “Granite Rock.” It measures above ground 7 ft. x 5 ft., but to all appearance its actual size is much greater. It is not a “granite rock’ but a greyish- colored, granular, hornblendic schist, having a close re- semblance to some of the highly metamorphic rocks on the coast at Corney Point. From the effects of weathering it has split into several pieces—the measurements given are in- tended to include the block as a whole. The occurrence of this transported stone in the position described, is intercst- ing, as it marks the most westerly point that I was able to note the presence of glacial deposits. _ (c) Lake Fowler—This is the largest of the numerous sait lagoons that are scattered over the southern portions of Yorke’s Peninsula. It is situated about four miles south of - Yorketown, and is more than ten miles in circumference. The Lake occupies a depression in the boulder clay, proof of which can be seen at various points both on the lake bottom as well as in the cliffs that surround its margin. The most interesting assemblage of glacial features met with in my visit was on the north side of the Lake, in Section No. 178 (Hundred of Melville) at a spot that can be reached by a path from the road, through a slip panel, and across a field. Near where the path strikes the lake the sloping bank con- tains a group of twelve large pieces of pink-colored granite, having but a slight elevation above the ordinary level. The group measures ten feet by six feet, and was probably only one piece orginally, but has split along joint planes as the result of weathering. About eighty yards to the westward of this erratic, other two huge granite blocks can be seen standing in the mud of the lake about a dozen yards away from the base of the cliff. On examination it was evident that the two fragments had been originally one block, the vertical fissure having pro- bably occurred after it had become stranded in its present position. Conjointly they measure six feet six inches high and eight feet wide. Lying around this great erratic are a4 some half dozen other granite boulders varying in size up to several feet in diameter. A short distance furtner to the westward can be seen two enormous masses of close grained bluish quartzites lying end- ways to the base of the cliffs. The first of these measures thirteen feet six inches by five feet six inches; and the se- cond, which is separated from its companion by only a few feet, 1s almost as large. Similar boulders of a smaller size are strewn in the vicinity. It must have been ice of great transporting power that could carry stones of such a size as described. The cliffs of the Lake near these erratics are about twenty feet in height, and consist intermittently of clay and sand rock. The change from the one feature to the other is often very abrupt. The clay is generally very compact, erey in color, with red patches; whilst the sand-rock may be colored white, yellow, or a deep brick-red. The stratigraphi- cal lines are often very bewildering. In places no bedding planes can be detected, and in others they rapidly alter from the horizontal to nearly vertical direction, accompanied with contortions. (d) Munkowurlie Lagoon —This is a long narrow lagoon running parallel with the road between Yorketown and Port Moorowie. The widest portion of the lagoon is at its sou- thern end, and on the eastern side of this larger basin in the lake two granite boulders are conspicuous. They are visible from the public road at a distance of about a quarter of a mile. (e) Moorowie Head WStation.—Situated about ten miles north-west of Yorketown on the edge of the Great Swamp country. I am indebted to Mr. Matthews, of Yorketown, and to Mr. Fowler, of Yararoo, for calling my attention te two erratics of granite which occur near this Station. I wa unable to visit the locality, but the independent description given by the gentlemen named agree in every particular. One of the stones referred to measures three feet by eighteen inches, and lies on the east side of the main road in Section No. 38, Hundred of Moorowie. Mr. Fowler describes it as “red granite similar to the granite seen in the cliffs at Cape Spencer.” The second of these boulders is described as much larger than the one just referred to, estimated at five feet by three feet, lying on the north side of a small lagcon. in Section No. 37, about three-quarters of a mile from the first mentioned. é (f) Lagoon at Penionvale Head Station. Mr. Matthews, of Yorketown, has a granite boulder in his yard that had been brought from the above lagoon ag an object of interest. The 78 locality is about three miles north-east of Yorketown. The stone is not so coarse in the grain as many of the erratics of the district, and was probably derived from a grey colored granite, as the evidence of this still remains, although the block, as a whole, is now of a deep red color from penetrat- ing iron stains. The mica constituent is Biotite. (g) Well-Sinking at Yorketown.—Sinking for water has been extensively tried throughout the district with varying suc- cess. All such sinkings have been in stiff clay, and I have learnt by enquiries that the occurrence of isolated stones in the clay is a common thing. Mr. Matthews, of Yorketown, has kindly placed in my hands a fragment of a granite boul- der that was met with in sinking a well at Yorketown. It was found at a depth of 60 ft. from the surface, and has a distinctly polished face on one side. In no instance, so far as I could ascertain, was the clay bed penetrated to the bed rock in these sinkings. (h) Government Bore in Tocchr’s Lagoon—Iin 1890 the Go- vernment put down a trial bore at the northern end of Tocchi’s Lagoon, situated in Section No. 291, Hundred of Melville, about a mile east of Yorketown. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. W. Jones, Conservator of Water, I am enabled to give the following particulars of the strata passed through in the bore :— ft. in. Black mud 3 Bi Be oe wclendy eee Dark clay with gypsum ht ste eae Dark clay an see ee: 1 ew 2a Hard sandstone ae ey oy eee Sandy clay bh Lapis Very hard blue rock Oy Aol Bore stopped at ... BS 2 SOD) a6) The above sinking was evidently in des hoxwleies clay of the ‘district, and shows a local development or, 2% least, something over 300 ft. Work was stopped on meeting a hard rock, which was penetrated to the extent of eleven inches. The occurrence of a hard rock in such a formation could not be taken as definite proof that the base of the clay bed had been reached. It is extremely. probable that the point at ‘which the bore was stopped was not bed rock, but an included erratic that had come in line with the sinking and given the false impression that bottom had been touched. The section is, however, an extremely interesting one, and supplies evi- dence of the great thickness of glacial deposits that occur over the southern portions of the peninsula. 79 CoNCLUDING REMARKS. In the observations now detailed a very large area has been added to the known extent of the extinct glacial field of South Australia. The glacial outline has not only been cvar- » ried across Gulf St. Vincent, but it is clear that practically the whole of the southern portion of Yorke’s Peninsula, mea- suring, roughly, forty miles by twenty miles, has been at one time under glacial conditions. This conclusion has been forced upon me from the widely distributed proofs of ice action on the northern and southern coasts as well as through- out the inland districts. With the exception of a few out- liers of Eocene limestone and some superficial deposits, the geology of the inland country is of a uniform character, and can be summed up in one great clay formation—the glacial clay. A unique feature of the district 1s the abundance of salt lagoons, of which there are no less than 200 recorded on the official maps within the area under consideration. There can be little doubt that the glacial clay underlies these lagoons and imparts to them the retentive quality, so that these saucer-shaped depressions, receiving the drainage of the country, play the part of evaporating pans and concentrate its salts. The waste of this clay along the banks of the lagoons leads to the exposure of the erratics belonging to the formation, some of which have been noted in this paper. Another important datum line has been supplied by these observations bearing on the age of the glacial cold in these latitudes. At Hallet’s Cove, on the opposite side of the Gulf, the evidence shows that the glacial deposits were laid dewn in pre-Miocene times. In southern Yorke’s Peninsula the geological age of these deposits has been thrown back yet one more step through their occupying a stratigraphical posi- tion inferior to the Lower Tertiary. There is, moreover, clear proof of stratigraphical unconformability in the eroded* surface of the glacial clay on which the marine beds of the Older Tertiary rest. It is, therefore, I think, clear that the glaciation must be referred to pre-Tertiary times, and cannot be newer than a Cretaceous or Cretaceo-Hocene age. The discovery of glacial clay inferior to the Eocene beds at Troubridge Hill and Point Turton will contribute to the correlation of beds of a similar character in other parts of the colony. On the north side of the mouth of the Onka- * At Corney Point, where the metamorphic rocks rise above sea level, there is a thin layer of Hocene limestone ina limited patch resting upon the primary rocks. The glaciai clay is absent. At this elevation it may have been originally a thin deposit, and therefore easily denuded before the bedrock sunk helow the Jevel of the Hocene sea. 80 paringa, a clay in all respects similar to the glacial clays of southern Yorke’s Peninsula, rises from beneath the fossili- ferous Eocene beds with a northerly rise. A similar clay underlies the Eocene of Queenstown, Kangaroo Island, re- ferred to by the author in a previous communication. From the apparent absence of erratics in these exposures some hesi- tation has hitherto been felt in referring the beds to the glacial age, but the evidence now available has greatly strengthened this supposition, and makes it almost certain that they belong to the same formation. We have no reason to conclude that the extent of the glacial area in South Australia has even yet been fully determined. The limits of the evidence on Yorke’s Penin- sula, in a northernly direction, have not been fixed, and it is possible that the ice of a long past age may have left its im- press on the southern portions of Eyre’s Peninsula much further to the west. It is in these directions that further - investigations should be especially made. My acknowledgments are due to Mr. E. H. Matthews, of Yorketown; Mr. C. S. Keightly, Warooka; Mr. James Cald- well, junr., Honiton; and Mr. Wiliam Fowler, Yararoo, for information and other facilities by which I was enabled to. utilise the short time at my disposal to the best advantage. — =. «2 OL, * a ii. ‘Rowen: a Nake on ‘ Collection. of ! - Kalgoorlie, Ww. A. eecuie WALTER : : Hvidences of xtinet Glacial - Southern Yorke’ 8 Penineula TRANSACTIONS ~ OF THE - ROYAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA, VOL. XXIV., Part I. [With THREE PLATES. | EDITED BY PROFESSOR R. TATE. ISSUED DECEMBER, 1900. oe Adelaide : | Se W. C.. RIGBY, 74, KING WILLIAM STREET. Parcets for transmission to the Royal Society of South Australia, from Europe and America, sipuld pe addressed es ‘per W. C. Rigby, care Messrs. Thos. Me ows & Co,, 35, Milk so Cheapside, London.”’ SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF PLANTS FROM MOUNT LYNDHURST RUN. By Max Kocu. [Read June 5, 1900.] In my lists of plants collected on Mount Lyndhurst Run, published in September, 1898, 334 species of indigenous plants were recorded. In the following supplementary list I enumerate 56 species. In addition to the 390 indigenous species, about 20 of introduced plants were noticed, of which Sonchus oleraceus and Hrodium cicutarvum may be regarded as well established. Most of the plants of this list were named by Prof. R. Tate, Adelaide, and some by Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. The most of the species are more or less rare in District S., and some 25 of them have not been recorded from there before ; these I have marked by asterisk. Cruecifere. *Erysimum lasiocarpum, 7. v. Mueller. Lepidium leptopetalum, /. v. M. Sisymbrium filifolium, /. v. WM. Rutacez. Geijera parviflora (?), Lindley. Collected by W. Langley. Zygophyliez. *Zygophyllum crenatum, /. v. M. Collected by J. Langley. *Zyeophyllum hybridum, Tate. *Zygophyllum Kochi, Yate. First seen by J. Langley, Trinity Well. The genus Zygophyllum had occupied my attention during last spring, for I noted in the preceding year various forms which seemed to me different from those described in the handbooks at my disposal. Fortunately, almost all known species of Zygophyllum were growing in my neighbourhood, with the exception of 2. glawcescens, which was erroneously enumerated in my list of 1898. Professor Tate upheld me in my assumption of having found several new species, two of which he described and named (vide Tr. R.S., October 3, 1899, pp. 289-291). F 82 In addition to these, the learned Professor admitted the occurrence of micromorphs as regards the corolla of Z. ammophilum. My No. 164 is the typical form of Z. ammophilum ; leaflets elliptical to linear cuneate, entire ; petals white, stamens four, seeds two in a cell, outer skin of ' seed rough (not shining). No. 458, Z. ammophilum, var.; petals white, stamens eight, fruits and seed the same as No. 164. No. 457, Z. ammophilum, var. or new species (2) ; leaflets broadly cuneate, notched; petals yellow, stamens eight, fruits truncate, rounded at the base, deeply angled ; seeds one in a cell, of an oval shape—the outer skin of the seed is smooth and polished; a small prostrate annual. It will be seen this form differs from the typical form in— (1) Foliage—164 leaflets entire ... ... 407 leaflets notched ~ (2) Colour of corolla—164 white ... 457 yellow (3) Number of stamens—four ... ... eight (4) Number of seeds in a cell—-two “+. One (5) Form of seed—almost three angular... oval in outline (6) Outer coat of seed—dull and rough ... smooth and polished I have supplied Prof. Tate with more material to work upon, and would not be surprised if he decides to raise No. 457 to specific rank. This form being prostrate in its habit, and the smallest of the genus, I suggest as an appropriate name Zygophyllum humillomum. Malvacee. Plagianthus glomeratus, Bentham. *Sida intricata, Ff. v. Mueller. Euphorbiacee. Phyllanthus Gunnii, J. Hooker. A shrub. N.B.—Phyllanthus rhytidospermus should be struck off my list of 1898. Chenopodiacee. An examination of Prof. Tate’s Herbarium at the Univer- sity has convinced me that the following species in list 1898 should be struck off :— Atriplex leptocarpum, /. v. M., for which I now assign A. angulatum, var., as the correct name. Bassia bicornis, for which B. diacantha seems to be a better reference. Amarantacee. Ptilotus Hoodii, 7. V. Mueller. 83 Legzuminose. Further study has revealed the fact that Glycina tabacina, in list 1898, is wrong, and should be Glycine sericea, Bentham. Acacia salicina, Lindley. Acacia cibaria, Ff. v. Mueller. This tree, or often shrubby tree, resembles so much in habit, foliage, and form of flowers to Acacia aneura that the species could not be defined until ripened fruits were obtained. Acacia cibaria is the species the seeds of which the blacks gather for food, and it is called by them Mulka, or by another tribe Wodnera, the same as Acacia aneura. Both species are highly valuable as fodder for cattle and horses, and are often cut down for sheep in protracted droughts. Ficoidez. *Mesembrianthemum australe, Solander. Collected by W. Langley, Knob Well. Aizoon zygophylloides, /. v. M. The form with pink sepals, No. 354, is growing abundantly on the salt plains near Catt’s and Publichouse Springs, north of Trinity Well. Myrtacee. Melaleuca trichostachya, Lindley. Melaleuca parviflora, Lindley. Black Teatree. Loranthacez. Loranthus exocarpi, Behr. A form with yellow petals, and green at the summit, is often found. Compositz. * Aster decurrens, Cunningham. *Podocoma cuneifolia, &. Br., var. 348. Leaves pinnate, and flowers much smaller than the legitimate form. *Podocoma cuneifolia, R. Br., var. 476, Leaves twice pinnate. Minuriella annua, Zate. A small annual, first found in horse paddock of the “ Village Well” on Mount Lyndhurst, but later on frequently met with on pipeclay soils throughout the district. *Pterigeron microglossus, Bentham: Podolepis Siemssenii, /. v. Mueller. Helipterum cerymbiflorum, Schlechtendal. Helipterum incanum, DeCandolle. Helipterum pterochaetum, Bentham. *Helichrysum lucidum, Henckel. 84 Calocephalus platycephalus, Benth. Calocephalus sp., No. 481 (?). Flowers too imperfect for specific denomination. It is a low perennial, with rigid, divaricate branches, stems, and leaves, which are short, densely woolly. Goodeniaceze. Scaevola humilis, R. Brown. Convolvulacee. *Cuscuta australis, R. Brown. Boraginee. Heliotropium asperrimum, &. Br. Collected by W. Langley. Asclepiadee. Cynanchum floribundum, &. Brown. Jasminee. Jasminum lineare, 2. Br. Solanacee. Solanum eremophilum, F& v. Mueller. Lentibularinee. Utricularia dichotoma, Labillardiere. Collected by J. Langley at Publichouse Springs, “north of Trinity Well,” growing in shallow waters. Myoporinee. *Myoporum deserti, Cunningham. A shrub. Myoporum platycarpum, &. Brown. Sandalwood. Aboriginal name in the Dieyerie dialect, Ywmburra. *Eremophila Freelingii, /. v. MW. A colour variety; flowers white. The typical shrub has a lavender corolla. Found by J. Langley near Trinity Well. Juneacee. Juncus bufonius, Linne. Typhacee. Typha angustifolia, Zenne. Near Walparinna Springs. Cyperacee. On account of the difficulty of procuring well-matured specimens of these Cyper grasses, as they are largely cropped by stock, it seems to be impossible to arrive at a final and satisfactory result with some of the species, and the names. given here must be considered as provisionally applied, and as liable to be improved upon. *Cyperus castaneus, Willd. A dwarf annual (perhaps a variety, or, if not, a new species). New for the province of South Australia. 85 *Cyperus squarrosus(?), Zinne. A form or an undescribed species. Scirpus lacustris (7), Lanne Eriocaulez. *Hriocaulon submersum, Zate. Grows under water, except the tips of the leaves and the flowering stalk. First seen at Publichouse Springs by J. Langley, Trinity Well. Graminee. Panicum decompositum, 4. Brown. *Panicum adspersum, Z'rinius. *Panicum sanguinale, Linne. Spinifex paradoxus, Bentham. * Andropogon bombycinus, A. Br. Stipa aristiglumis, /”. v. MW. * Acrostis Solandri, /. v. A. *Eriachne scleranthoides, /. v. I. *Diplachne Muelleri, Bentham. ' *Diplachne fusca, Palisot. *Distichlis maritima, Rafinesque. Near salt lakes, Publichouse Springs. Filices. Grammitis rutaefolia, &. Brown. Characeze. *Nitella sp. Not sufficiently developed to admit of specific denomination. subtus sat sparsim pubescens ; supra pilis erectis elongatis sparsis vestita; nigra, pedibus antennis et corpore subtus picescentibus ; antennis sat elongatis sat gracilibus ; oculis minus prominulis; capite confertim subtilius subaspere punctulato, puncturis paullo majoribus sparsim intermixtis ; prothorace quam latiori ut 7 ad 54 longiori, ut caput punc- tulato et ad latera nonnihil (fere ut WV. porcate, Fab.) ruguloso, sulco longitudinali mediano lineari sat elongato impresso, pone medium utrinque fortiter dilatato-rotundato ; scutello confertim subtiliter punctulato; elytris ad apicem inermibus, seriatim punctulatis, puncturis quadratis (antice profundis sat magnis, postice gradatim minoribus minus pro- funde impressis) ; interstitiis alternis leviter costiformibus ; tibiis anterioribus 4 arcuatis; abdomine sparsim subtiliter punctulato, segmentis postice late membranaceo-marginatis ; pedibus sat gracilibus, femoribus posticis perlongis ; tarsis sat elongatis sat gracilibus. Long., 64 1.; lat., 12 1. (vix). At once distinguishable from all the previously described Natales except porcata, Fab., by the close even puncturation of | the entire disc of its pronotum and the feebleness of the lateral rugulosity of that segment. From porcata it differs inter alia by its black colour, by its distinctly less convex eyes, by its very much more elongate prothorax, by the very evidently closer and 121 finer puncturation of its pronotum, and by the very wide mem- branous hindmargin of each ventral segment,—which is certainly not due to the abdomen of the specimen before me being dis- torted or unduly dilated. I have little doubt of the specimen described being a male, in which case the species is distinguished from many of its congeners (but not from porcata, Fab.) by the absence of patches of close sexual puncturation on the ventral segments. In my tabulation of Matalis (Tr. R.S., 8.A., 1899, pp. 29-30) the inclusion of this species would cause the substitu- tion for the last line of the following :— AA. Disc of prothorax closely and evenly ea B. Prothorax much longer than wide ... debilis, Blackb. BB. Prothorax very little longer than wide .. ... porcata, Fab. S.A. (basin of Lake Eyre); taken by Herr Koch near Farina, THANASIMUS. There seems to be reason for regarding all the Australian in- sects that have been referred to this genus as incorrectly placed there. 7. accinctus, Newm., has already been made the typical species of a new genus (Metabasis, Gorh.), and Mr. Gorham has already referred (correctly, I have no doubt) 7’. sculptus, Macl., and his own 7’. rufimanus to the genus Aulicus. Necrobia eximia, White (which has been attributed to Thanasimus by some authors,—e.g., Gorham) is certainly not a Thanasimus in my opinion,—but here I am writing from memory (having examined a specimen not at this moment available) and so will not at present discuss its position more particularly. I know of only three other Australian species that have been placed in Thanasimus (viz., acerbus, Newm., confusus, Newm., and cursorius, Westw.), and they undoubtedly belong to the genus Stigmatium. They are all described insufficiently for confident identification among congeners so numerous and _ superficially so closely resembling each other as are the species of Stigmatium, but it seems to me probable that acerbus and cwursorius are founded on the same insect and that it is also the same which M. Kuwert has since described as S. dispar. I think I know S. confusws, Newm., as a species that I have met with in Vic- toria (Newman’s locality) not rarely, and it is probably identical with one or more of the species that have since been described as Stegmatia by other authors, but without examination of types it is difficult to arrive at a confident opinion. CLERUS. I regard it as extremely doubtful whether any true Clerus occurs in Australia. Hight Australian species are ascribed to the genus in Masters’ Catalogue, one of which (crassus, Newm.) dis- appears in Lohde’s Cat., having been reported (Tr. R. Soc., S.A., 122 1891, p. 303) as a Zenithicola, Of the remainder C. apicalis, Macl., Mastersi, Macl., and delicatulus, Bohem., are Auwlici (as noted below); C. cruciatus, Macl., is probably a Lemidia,—cer- tainly nota Clerus ; ventralis, Westw., is evidently an Olesterus ; C’. guttulus, White, has been stated by Gorham to be congeneric¢ with 7illus bopartitus and therefore mentioned by me (loc. cit., p. 304) as probably a Thanastmomorpha (but I have since identified it, and now place it,—as noted below,—in my new genus TV'arsostenodes). C. sepulcralis, Westw., remains; I have not to my knowledge seen it, nor do I[ find anything in its description on which I can form a decided opinion as to its generic position. I note however that in a recent memoir Herr Schenkling mentions it as ‘‘ Clerus” sepuleralis from which it seems probable that it is at any rate near Clerws. Perhaps it is an Orthriws (an Australian ally of Clerus named by Mr. Gorham and distinguished inter alia by its scarcely emarginate eyes). CLEROMORPHA. In his diagnosis of this genus (Cist. Ent., II., p. 83) Mr. Gorham indicates the number of tarsal joints visible on their upper surface as doubtful,—owing I presume to the type having lost its tarsi. His conjecture that the number is four is correct. AULICUS. Under this name Spinola (its author) included species from America and Australia. Later, Gorham expressed the opinion tnat the species of the two continents ought to be separated, but says that not having examined any of the American species he ‘‘has not ventured on the alteration,” and at the same time pro- poses the name Phlogistus for the Australian species, though admitting it doubtful whether Spinola did not consider an Aus- tralian species the typical one. This is decidedly puzzling, and does not seem to me to furnish sufficient reason for rejecting Spinola’s name in respect of the Australian species, although I observe that in his recent ‘‘Cleridarum Catalogus,” Herr Lohde has done so but (as was of course to be expected in a mere Cata- logue) without assigning a reason. It is quite possible that the need of the change of name may eventually be demonstrated, but in the absence of a diagnosis of. Phlogistus,—which has not been provided by any author,—I retain the name Aulicws for the present. The Australian species of this genus are in great confusion, not a few of them having been attributed by their authors to the old genera Thanasemus and Clerus and still standing there even in Herr Lohde’s recent Catalogue. Having recently had occasion to examine a considerable number of specimens of Aulicus I have 123 taken the opportunity to study the widely scattered literature of the subject and offer the following notes as an attempt at a systematic treatment of the Australian species. Under the generic name Awlicus 21 specific names have been proposed for them, and two species described as 7hanasimi and one described as Clerus have been shown to be in reality Aulicz,—viz., T. rufimanus, Gohr., and sculptus, Macl., and C. instabilis, Newm. I now draw attention to the fact that the following also appear to be decidedly members of the same genus,—viz., Clerus Mastersi, Macl., apicalis, Macl., and delicatulus, Bohem. Beside the above Xylotretus scrobilata, Spin., is stated by Gorham to be “probably an Awlicus,’—a reference that is followed (but with a?) by Herr Lohde. In this I cannot concur. Spinola describes the insect as having “5 or 6” rows of large deep fovez on the elytra. But in all the large number of Auwlicz I have examined I have never seen one in which there is any doubt at all about the number of rows on each elytron being ten,—so emphatically is this the case that I am quite satisfied of the presence of that number of rows of quadrate foveole being a reliable generic character (as far as Australian species are concerned). Moreover Spinola describes X. scrobilatus as having a “transverse fold” on the non-foveolate apical portion of the elytra,—a character to which there is no approximation whatever in any Aw/icus (or indeed in any Australian Clerid) known to me. I incline to the opinion that X. scrobilatws is erroneously attributed to Australia. If not, it probably represents a genus as yet uncharacterised. But if the ‘ transverse fold” can be disregarded as (say) a defor- mity of the individual specimen, it is possible that the insect in question is a Zenithicola, as in species of that genus (¢.g., australis, Boisd.) the foveole of the lateral are so much smaller than those of the discal series ‘hat it would be correct to say there are “about 5 or 6 rows of larye deep fovee,” though even in that case one would wonder that the describer had not added that there are also other rows of much smaller fovee. The generic identification of XY. scrobilatus is impossible without an inspection of the type, but whatever it may be it is not an Aulicus unless the description is outrageously incorrect. Unfor- tunately Spinola gives a wrong reference to his figure, which imparts a further difficulty into the matter (as Gorham points out, Cist. Ent., II., 88), but the figure that is probably intended for X. scrobilatus looks as if it might represent a Zenzthicola. Altogether, then, there are 27 names that must be regarded as having been given to Australian species of Awulicus, but a con- siderable number of these are synonyms, some of which have already been shown to be so. It will be convenient, however, to recapitulate them all now. The following, however, I believe to be founded on error, or mere conjecture :— 124 A. episcopalis, Spin., wrongly regarded by Spinola as a synonym of instabilis, Newn. (discussed below). A. corallipes, Chevr., quoted by Herr Lohde as a synonym of foveicollis, Macl. This seems to me highly improbable. No reason is given for the reference. A. foveicollis is practically undescribed. It is a Queensland species, and the type is at Sydney. A. corallipes is a familiar Tasmanian species. A. castanipes, Westw., and A. tibialis, Westw. (described by White, Clerid, TV. 60) placed in all catalogues known to me as synonyms of A. instabilis, Newm. I consider this almost certainly wrong. It is possible the names were given to varieties of A. episcopalis, Spin., but the matter could not be cleared up without examination of the types (which are no doubt in the Br. Museum). The following synonymy seems to be correct :— A. affinis, Gorh.—A. samaragdinus, Gorh. Its author says of affinis ‘possibly only a var.” A. varicolor, Chevr.=A. multicolor, Chevr. Its author says of varicolor ‘probably only a var.” A. albofasciatus, Gorh.—A. ochrurus, Chevr. Mr. Gorham has already noted this synonymy. Both descriptions were published in 1876, and it seems doubtful which has the priority. A. (Thanasmus) rufimanus, Gorh.=A. chrysurus, Chevr. Already noted by Mr. Gorham. A. splendidus, Chevr.=A. sculptus, Macl. Already noted by Mr. Gorham. The following synonymy has not been noted previously :— A, ochrurus, Vhevr. (=albofasciatus, Gorh.)=A. (Clerus) apicalis, Macl. (Macleay’s name has priority). A. viridissimus, Pasc. is (as more fully indicated below) pro- bably a synonym for A. (Clerus) delicatulus, Bohem. It should be added that in Herr Lohde’s Catalogue the name “auratus, Gory., 11.” occurs as a synonym of A. instabdilis, Newm. Ido not know this insect, and have not seen the de- scription of it, so can express no opinion about it. Assuming the correctness of the above synorymic notes, 9 of the 27 names referred to above must be regarded as mere synonynis. Of the 18 names remaining I have been able to identify 14 with insects on which they appear to have been founded. The four that I have not been able to identify are :— A. foveicollis, Macl. Practically undescribed. A. imperialis, Gorh. Seems to be differently colored from any Aulicus known to me. The structural characters mentioned would fit many Aulvev. 125 A. lemoides, Pasc. I have not seen any Aulicus that will fit the description. The few structural characters mentioned are founded on a comparison with ‘“ A. instabilis, Newm.,” but it is impossible to ascertain (without reference to his collection) to what Awlicus Pasc. attributed that name. I should conjecture A, lemoides to be possibly a var. of A. rufipes, Macl. A, mellinipes, Chevr. I am convinced that I have not seen this species. If the statement that its prothorax is longer than wide is strictly accurate (by measurement) I am doubly sure that I have not seen it. In the following pages I describe nine new species of Aulicus and furnish notes on several of the previously described species. I also furnish a tabulation of all the species except the four remarked on above. In this tabulation I have found it necessary in several instances to rely upon colour distinctions, because in the case of species that I have identified only by means of the descriptions it might be misleading to characterise them by characters not actually mentioned in the descriptions, as there is of course a possibility of some of the identifications being wrong, —hut, as it is, the tabulation is right according to the authors’ descriptions even if my identifications are wrong,—except in the case of instabilis, Newm., episcopalis, Spin., delicatulus, Bohem, and corallipes, Chevr., of which I have not seen authentic speci- mens, but have assumed the correctness of my identification. I may say, however, that I have not the slightest doubt about all the species included in the tabulation being perfectly valid ones. The genus has been in so complete a state of confusion that it seems worth while to treat it as a whole (which has not been done before) in respect of its Australian members, even if my treat- ment of it should prove eventually to require a few corrections. Tabulation of species of the genus Aulicus -— A. Elytra variegated with different colouring or pubescence in transverse zones. B. At least one of the zones testaceous. C. The apex and a median (or submedian) zone testaceous E apicalis, Macl. CC. Elytra having only a median testaceous zone cresus, Blackb. CCC. Elytra having the base and a median zone testaceous. D. Prevailing colour of elytra bronzy-red,—no black ny sae ee: ... Masters:, Macl. DD. Prevailing colour of elytra black ... dives, Blackb. BB. No testaceous colouring on the elytra. C. Apical part of elytra not aureo-villose. D. Club of antenne black ... a ... multicolor, Chevr. DD. Club of antenne testaceous __... ... sculptus, Macl. CC. Apical part of elytra aureo-villose . chrysurus, Chevr. AA. Elytra not variegated with different colouring or pubescence in transverse zones. B. Antenne black ade et ao ... loetus, Chevr. 126 BB. Antenne not black. C. Antenne reaching back to the base of the prothorax : : sai ae CC. Antenne shorter. D. Ninth and tenth elytral series quite dis- tinct from each other and separated by a well-defined interstice to Revns middle of elytra... DD. Ninth and tenth elytral series ‘not as in A. episcopalis. K. External face of tibie traversed bya well- defined entire longitudinal carina. F. Under surface of head and prothorax of dark colour. G. Seriate sculpture of elytra continu- ing (gradually enfecbled) to apex GG. Seriate sculpture of elytra ceases suddenly considerably before apex. H. No longitudinal sulcus on prono- tum behind the fronttransverse sulcus sa. is Leh HH. A well - defined longitudinal sulcus on pronotum behind the front transverse sulcus... FF. Under surface of head and peo pale yellow... EE. External face of tibie not having | a continuous longitudinal carina. F. The transverse sulci of the pronotum connected by a strong longitudinal sulcus. G. Transverse interstices of elytral foveole strongly cariniform and crossing several series ... GG. Transverse interstices of elytral foveolz fine, iesiasikgs raised, and short FF. Transverse sulci of pronotum not connected by a strong longitudinal suleus, G. Front of clypeus not both notably narrower than interval between eyes and also much emarginate. H. Sculpture of elytra quasi-uniform from base to apex, only becoming gradually finer and closer (but not less deca in gee eee the apex .. HH. Sculpture of “elytra ‘much en- feebled at base, gradually becoming towards apex more or less finer, but still continu- ing rugulose. I. Prothorax notably wider across © apex than across base. (Legs entirely dark) bye II. Prothorax scarcely wider across apex than across base. instabitlis, Newm episcopalis, Spin. nigrohirtus, Blackb. smaragdinus, Gorh. robustus, Blackb. rufipes, Macl. Plutus, Chevr. delicatulus, Bohem. eremita, Blackb. amabilis, Blackb. 127 J. Pronotum closely evenly and somewhat strongly punc- tured. (Femora red)... cribratus, Blackb. JJ. Pronotum about middle of basal part very finely and very sparsely aay a sae (Femora dark) . modestus, Blackb. HHH. Sculpture of elytra much en- feebled at bare, and behind suddenly changing to fine non -rugulose (or scarcely rugulose) puncturation con- siderably before the ane I. Femora entirely dark.. .. mundus, Blackb. Il. Femora testaceous or red ... coraliipes, Chevr. GG. Front of clypeus considerably nar- rower than interval between eyes and also much emarginate parvulus, Blackb. A. Cresus, sp. nov. Supra cupeo-purpureus, elytris mox ante medium fascia testacea (hac nec suturam nec marginem lateralem plane attingenti) ornatis, corpore subtus ceruleo, labro palpis antennisque testaceis, pedibus obscuris (tibiis anticis subtus et tarsis anticis dilutis ; pilis albidis elongatis sat sparsim vestitus; capite crebre fortiter subrugulose punctulato ; antennis prothoracem medium vix attingenti- bus, articulo ultimo ad apicem emarginato; prothorace manifeste transverso, fere ut caput (sed antice minus crebre) punctulato, antice tubulato, ad partis tubulate basin trans- versim fortiter arcuatim sulcato, pone sulcum late concavo, in partis concave fundo longitudinaliter sulcato, mox ante basin transversim sulcato, lateribus inter sulcos transversos fortiter rotundatis; elytris 10-seriatim grosse foveolatis, seriebus basin versus vix minus distinctis vix elytrorum partem apicalem tertiam attingentibus, hac puncturis sat grossis confuse minus crebre impressa, seriebus 9* 10* que carina distincta ad elytrorum partem apicalem tertiam divisis. Long., 32 1.; lat., 143, 1. (vix). This speciesis readily distinguishable fromall previously described Australian Aulict by its colour and marking, It will be convenient to compare it and others of its congeners with A. chrysurus, Chevr. (Thanasimus rufimanus, Gorh.), that being a previously described species which there can be no difficulty in identifying with certainty. Compared with it the present species inter alia differs as follows :—Autenne much shorter (joints 9 and 10 much more transverse, joint 11 much more emarginate at apex), pro- thorax more transverse with mucn more strongly rounded sides, fove of the elytral series much larger (reaching the base and extending much further towards the apex). Its nearest ally is the species that I regard as A. episcopalis, Spin. (=instabilis, 128 Spin. var.) from which it differs (apart from colour and markings) chiefly by its shorter and more convex form, the larger and less crowded foveze of its elytral series, the less abrupt cessation pos- teriorly of the same fovez, and their continuity to the actual base of the elytra. The antennz of these two species are ex- tremely similar, also the conspicuousness of the ninth and tenth series of fovez and their interstice te the commencement of the smooth apical part of the elytra. S. Australia (Yorke Peninsula). A. dives, sp. nov. Cyaneus, elytrorum parte dimidia basali testacea utringue macula magna atro-cyanea humerali ornata (parte dimidia apicali atro-cyanea utrinque macula magna sanguinea ante-apicali notata), antennis palpis tibiis anticis tibiarum intermediarum apice et tarsis antieis inter- mediisque testaceis ; pilis aibidis elongatis sparsim vestitus : capite fortiter minus crebre punctulato; antennis prothor- acem medium haud attingentibus, articulis 9°—11° trans- versis, 11° ad apicem leviter emarginato; prothorace sat fortiter transverso, fere ut caput (sed nonnihil magis grosse) punctulato, antice breviter tubulato, ad partis tubulate basin transversim fortiter areuatim sulcato, pone suleum late concavo, in partis concave fundo longitudinaliter sulcato, mox ante basin transversim sulcato, lateribus inter sulcos transversos sat fortiter rotundatis; elytris 10-seriatim grosse foveolatis interstitiis minus angustis, seriebus basin versus obsoletis nee elytrorum partem apicalem tertiam attingenti- bus, hac sparsim sat subtiliter punctulata, seriebus 9* 10* que vix ultra elytra media attingentibus. Long., 31; lat., 12 1 (vix). In this species the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is more strongly securiform than in most of its congeners. Lacordaire tabulates Aulicus as having that joint securiform, but in diagnos- ing the genus says that it is of the form of an elongate triangle, which is quite correct as regards most of the species,—but in this one the triangle is scarcely elongate. It may be noted, too, that Lacordaire calls the claws of Aulicus “simple,” but I find them to have a very small and feeble sub-basal tooth which in the present species is scarcely traceable. This species is remarkable for its short antenne, having their apical joint distinctly trans- verse. The seriate punctures of the elytra are scarcely smaller than in A. cresus but they are less sharply defined, their inter- stices being less narrow and carina-like than in most Av/iet. Apart from coloring and pattern the present species differs from A. chrysurus, inter alia by the very much coarser seriate punc- tures of its elytra, from A. cresus by the seriate puctures of the elytra not nearly reaching the base, from A. episcopalis by the 129 9th and 10th series scarcely passing the middle of the length of the elytra, and from A. apicalis, Macl., by the apical part of its elytra nearly black. It is perhaps nearest to A. (Clerus) Mastersz, Macl. The characters attributed to that species (apart from those relating to colour) are valueless for identification, being common to almost all Aulicz. The pattern of A. Mastersi seems to bear a general resemblance to that of the present insect, but the general colour of the elytra is said to be ‘‘ bronzy red” which is certainly not the general colour in A. dives, and the very great distance apart of the localities in which the two insects were taken renders it unlikely that they are varieties of one species. 8. Australia (Mt. Lofty Range). A. nigro-hirtus, sp. nov. Supra ccruleus purpureo-micans, sub- tus cyaneus, antennis (clava nonnihil infuscata excepta) pal- pis et tarsis anticis testaceis, tibiis anticis subtus ferrugineis, pedibus alibi purpureis; pilis sat elongatis (his in corpore supra obscuris, subtus albidis) vestitus ; capite crebre for- tius nec rugulose punctulato ; antennis prothoracem medium vix superantibus, articulo ultimo fere ut generis Hleale appendiculato; prothorace vix transverso, fere ut caput punctulato sed puncturis rugis transversis intermixtis, pos- tice breviter (sed antice nullo modo) tubulato, antice trans- versim arcuatim (postice recte) sulcato, inter sulcos equaliter convexo, lateribus ab angulis anticis fere ad basin equaliter arcuatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis, seriebus 9* 10° que ultra medium vix distinctis ceteris in elytrorum partem quartam apicalem continuis, foveolis quam A. chrysuri, Chevr,, parum magis grossis, parte apicali confuse nec crebre punctulata ; tibiis extus carinatis. lLong., 4 1. (vix) ; lat., 12th The notable characters of this species are the strongly appen- diculate apical joint of its antenne which is scooped out on its. wide compressed face in such fashion as to make it from a certain point of view look like two joints, the pronotum without concavity or longitudinal sulcus behind the anterior transverse sulcus, and the tibize with a conspicuous longitudinal carina on their external face. The foveze of the elytral series are notably less coarse and more closely placed than in the species I call episcopalis, Spinola ; the series (as such) are exceptionally conspicuous owing to the longi- tudinal interstices being distinctly more elevated than the inter. stices separating fovea from fovea in the series. Perhaps nearest to A. imperialis, Gorh., but evidently very distinct from it as. that species is described as having its pronotum abruptly nar- rowed in front and much depressed dorsally. N. Queensland. A. instabilis, Newm. There seems to be much confusion about I 130 this species. It is quite clear to me that Spinola did not identify it correctly, and I should say that in all probability Newman himself mixed two species under the name. Newman’s very brief description mentions only one character that is of real value in determining what insect he had before him, viz., “ protibie subtus testacee.” Trivial as this character might seem I have examined sufficiently long series of several Awlicz to enable me to say that it is of great value. To this clue may be added another in the fact that almost all the Cleride described by Newman are Victorian species, and still another in the size (long., =; of an inch) being stated. Now I have taken somewhat plenti- fully in Victoria two species of Aulicus whose front tibie are invariably black (or dark piceous) on their upper surface and testaceous beneath, the two colours being in quite abrupt and conspicuous contrast. My opinion is that Newman had both these insects before him and did not observe their specific differ- ence. One of them is about of the size Newman quotes, and of deep violet blue colour with elongate antennze,—the other is decidedly smaller and of a bright green colour with shorter antenne. Newman says ‘‘Colore instabilis, nunc viridis, nunc violaceus” and mentions no other character that is not generic except the peculiar colouring of the front legs. As the size given is that of the larger insect just referred to I feel little doubt of its having been that on which the species instabilis was founded and conjecture that either Newman had before him also a green variety (unknown to me) of it, or that he had before him the smaller species referred to above and overlooked its specific difference from the specimen on which he founded his description {or at all events his measurement). I feel very little doubt that A. znstabilis, Spinola, is a species that occurs in many parts of 8. Australia and even extends into the S.-Eastern part of Western Australia, and is much more variable in colouring than I have found the species to be which 1 regard as instabilis, Newm. Its front tibia are not of two colours divided longitudinally, but are (as Spinola describes them) wholly dark except near the apex where they have a ten- dency to become testaceous. The species differs from that men- tioned above as instabilis, Newm., inter alia by its shorter antenne, and the considerably larger seriate punctures of its elytra which moreover are well defined on a larger area of the elytra (becoming obsolete only close to the base and in the apical one-fourth), the ninth and tenth rows being separated by a_ continuous distinct carina quite into the apical one-fourth of the elytra. As Spinola-described a colour-var. of this insect under the name ee this latter may now stand as the name of the species. 131 A, robustus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, sat convexus; supra ign 0 cupreus, capite pronotoque paullo obscurioribus, antennis palpisque testaceis (illarum clava et palporum labialium articulo apicali obscuris); subtus obscurus vel atro-cyaneus, pedibus lete cyaneis, tarsis anticis ferrugineis ceteris pice- scentibus; pilis pallidis elongatis vestitus; capite fortius sat crebre punctulato, inter oculos late leviter impresso ; antennis prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que sat transversis 11° obovato ad apicem acuto extus leviter excavato ; prothorace vix transverso, supra sparsim fortius inzequaliter nec rugulose punctulato, sat longe pone apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum longitudinaliter profunde breviter canalicu- lato, lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (seriebus 9° et 10* haud carina acuta divisis), foveolis fere a basi ad partem posticam tertiam continuis (hic subito desinentibus), parte apicali subtiliter vix seriatim punctulata, serierum intersti- tiis a foveolarum interstitiis transversis tubatis ; tibiis extus longitudinaliter carinatis. Long., 4—431.; lat., 14—131. This species bears much general resemblance to that which I take to be A. Plutus, Chevr., but differs from it inter alia by the much shorter longitudinal channel of its pronotum, by the much less coarse sculpture of its elytra, and by the well-marked longi- tudinal carina that traverses the whole length of the external face of its tibie. N.S. Wales (Inverell ; given to me by the late Mr. Olliff). A. mundus, sp. nov. Minus elongatus, minus convexus; lete cyaneus, antennis palpis et tibiis tarsisque anticis testaceis, tibiis tarsisque posterioribus 4 picescentibus; pilis sat elongatis fulvis vestitus ; capite crebre ruguloso, inter oculos fovea profunda impresso, antennis prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que sat fortiter trans- versis 11° obovato ; prothorace vix transverso, supra crebre rugulose punctulato, pone apicem arcuatim (et ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum longitudinaliter brevis- sime canaliculato, lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter series 9" et 10°” ultra elytra media haud cariniformi), foveolis in parte basali obsoletis et subito ad partem apicalem tertiam desinentibus, parte apicali subtiliter vix seriatim punctulata, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum interstitiis transversis turbatis. Long., 31.; lat., 11. Very closely allied to A. amabilis, Blackb., but satisfactorily distinguishable by the absence of the subscutellar gibbosity on 132 the elytra and the sudden ending of the seriate foveole of the elytra at the beginning of the apical one-third part of the elytra. There is also a difference in the apical joint of the antenne on which in A. amabilis there is a distinct external excavation (but not in the present species). The seriate foveole of the elytra are in both very similar to those of A. chrysurus, Chevr. Also (dis- regarding colour) near to A. corallipes, Chevr., but differing from it enter alia by the seriate sculpture extending scarcely into the apical one-third of the elytra, while in corallipes it reaches nearly into the apical one-fourth. 8. Australia (Mount Lofty Range). A. (Clerus) delicatulus, Bohem. I have taken an Avultcus in the Sydney neighbourhood which I have no doubt is Bohemann’s. species. It does not seem to present very strong characters, its most striking feature being I think the comparatively feeble sculpture of its elytra, which consists of rows of transversely quadrate impressions separated by continuous longitudinal inter- stices which are (not, as they are in A. chrysurus, Chevr., thrown out of shape or zigzagged by still stronger transverse interstices running continuously across several of the rows but) straight. In respect of that sculpture it resembles A. nigrohirtus, but in that species the fovee are considerably larger and deeper, and the interstices (both longitudinal and transverse) are considerably stronger and more cariniform; in delicatulus the longitudinal interstices are almost flat, and carry a straight row of fine and not very closely placed punctures. The sculpture of the median part of the elytra does not in A. delicatulus abruptly cease or change its character at a more or less considerable distance from the apex (as it does in many species of Aulicus) but merely becomes near the apex a little feebler and less seriate. The hind tibiee and tarsi are unusually slender, which suggests the idea that A. viridissinus, Pasc. (also from Sydney) may be a later name for the same insect. Pascoe’s statement that in A. viridissimus the elytra are “coarsely” punctured in rows seems perhaps inconsistent with such identity, but the expression is not altogether inapplicable to the elytra of the insect before me absolutely, although comparatively (i.e., compared with most other Awlicz) the sculpture is not coarse. Some remarks seems to be called for on my having placed delicatulus in my tabulation (above) with A. Plutus, Chevr., as having the longitudinal channel of the pronotum exceptionally long, whereas Bohemann says of its pronotum “ breviter canaliculato.” Bohemann calls it by the name “ Olerus,” however, and it is in comparison with that of other Aulici that I call the longitudinal channel of its pro- notum elongate. Absolutely, the channel may be called “short” as it does not reach the base, and does not nearly reach the front margin, of the pronotum. 133 A. eremita, sp. nov. EHlongatus, sat angustus, sat convexus ; colore instabilis; antennis palpisque testaceis, pedibus obseuris, tarsis anticis plus minusve ferrugineis; pilis elonga- tis vestitus (his in capite pronoto elytrisque fulvis, alibi dilutioribus); capite inzequali, inzequaliter punctulato, longi- tudinaliter sat manifeste rugato, clypeo antice subtruncato quam inter oculos caput haud angustiori; antennis prothor- acem medium manifeste superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que transversis 11° ovato ad apicem acuto; prothorace quam longiori vix latiori, supra inequaliter subtilius punctulato et transversim subtiliter rugato, sat longe pone apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum longitudinaliter breviter vix perspicue canaliculato, lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (seriebus 9* 10* que ultra medium vix distinctis), foveolis a basi fere ad apicem con- tinuis sed in parte quarta postica gradatim minus seriatis minus quadratis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum inter- stitiis transversis multo turbatis. Long. 241; lat. 11. (vix). I found a batch of specimens of this insect on flowers on the Dividing Range in Victoria, which vary extremely in coloring, containing green, blue, coppery, and golden individuals. The legs are usually of the general colour,—but always dark, except the front tarsi which are more or less red. The antenne palpi and pilosity do not vary in colour. Usually the whole surface is unicolorous, but in some examples the pronotum differs in colour from the elytra and the under surface from the upper. Among the species not having a variegated pattern on the elytra, having dark legs and testaceous antennex, the ninth and tenth rows of elytral foveole confused behind the middle, the elytral sculpture not abruptly ceasing (or nearly so) considerably before the apex, the antennez not reaching back to the base of the prothorax, and having the symmetry of the longitudinal interstices of the elytra much disturbed by transverse interstices continuous across several of the longitudinal interstices, this insect is distinguished by its elypeus being in front as wide as the interval between the eyes and its elytral sculpture being continuous quite to the base o the elytra. It is also notable by the unevenness of the surface of its head, and by its elongate somewhat cylindric form. Victoria (Dividing Range). A. amabilis, sp. nov. Minus elongatus, minus convexus ; lete viridis, antennis palpis, tibiis anticis subtus et tarsis anticis testaceis ; supra pilis elongatis obscuris et brevibus testaceis (alibi pilis elongatis pallidis) vestitus ; capite sat plano, inter oculos foveato, equaliter crebre ruguloso, clypeo antice fere 134 truncato quam interoculos caput haud angustiori; antennis. prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que transversis 11° ovato ad apicem acuto extus leviter excavato; prothorace leviter transverso, sat squaliter fere ut caput ruguloso, sat longe pone apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum late impresso (parte impressa in fundo longitudinaliter canaliculata), lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim for- titer rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foyeolatis (interstitio inter series 9°™ 10°" que parum ultra medium distincto), prope scutellum utrinque et ad humeros manifeste tumidis, foveolis (serie subsuturali excepta) in parte basali obsoletis et in parte apicali tertia confusis et minus distinctis nec manifeste quadratis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum inter- stitiis transversis multo turbatis. Long., 22 1.; lat., 1 1. In this species the discal sculpture of the elytra becomes con- fused and feeble towards the apex more rapidly than in the other species of the aggregate which I have tabulated as having this sculpture only gradually enfeebled,—so that it is somewhat intermediate between that aggregate and the next. Its general characters associate it with A. eremita from which it differs in many points (cited in the description), the most definite being perhaps that mentioned in the tabulation,—the seriate fovezx of the elytra commencing considerably behind the base of the elytra. It is a shorter and more depressed species than A. eremita and does not seem to vary in colour (I have half a dozen specimens taken in company). The part of the prothorax in front of the . anterior transverse sulcus is so strongly rounded separately at its sides that the lateral outline of the prothorax (viewed from above) seems to have a deep emargination a little behind its front extremity. A. parvulus, Blackb., is somewhat closely allied to this and the preceding species (4. eremita), but is easily distinguished from them by inter alia its clypeus considerably narrower in front and strongly emarginate, and by the transverse interstices of its elytral fovez being so strong and continuous as almost to conceal the existence of the longitudinal interstices. Victorian Alps. A. cribratus, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, minus convexus ; supra cyaneus, antennis palpis et (tibiis tarsisque posterioribus nigris exceptis) pedibus testaceis; subtus cyaneus vel viridescens ; pilis elongatis (his in corpore supra obscuris, in corpore subtus albidis) vestitus; capite confertim zqualiter ruguloso, inter oculos fovea impresso ; antennis prothoracem medium parum superantibus, articulis 9° 10° que transversis 11° obovato ad apicem acuto; prothorace quam latiori sub- longiori, ut caput punctulato, sat longe pone apicem 135 arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum longitudinaliter brevissime canaliculato, lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter series 9°™ et 10°" ultra elytra media haud cariniformi), foveolis per elytra tota fere continuis sed apicem versus haud quadratis minus crassis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum interstitiis trans- versis turbatis. Long., 341. lat., 14.1 This species is closely allied to A. corallipes, Chevr., but is certainly a distinct species. In a considerable number of speci- mens before me the hind tibie and tarsi are invariably black, the. intermediate tarsi invariably black, and the intermediate tibiz invariably more or less black. The few specimens I have seen of corallipes (from Tasmania) all have entirely red legs. There is also considerable and constant difference in the sculpture of the elytra which in cribratus begins close to the base and attains the apex, only becoming finer and less regular near the apex (so that this species has about the strongest apical puncturation of any in the genus) ; while in corallipes the sculpture begins considerably behind the base and changes suddenly at the commencement of the apical third of the elytra into a feeble non-rugulose punctura- tion. S. Australia and N.S. Wales. A. modestus, sp. nov. Angustus, elongatus, modice convexus ; supra obscure eneus, antennis palpisque testaceis, subtus obscure cyaneus; pilis. elongatis (his in corpore supra obscuris, in corpore subtus albidis) vestitus ; capite antice crebre ruguloso, postice minus crebre punctulato, inter oculos fovea impresso; antennis prothoracem medium vix attin- gentibus, articulis 9° 10° que transversis 11° obovato ad apicem acuto; prothorace vix transverso, inzequaliter (in medio fortius sat crebre, apicem basinque versus subtilius sparsius) punctulato, in medio transversim rugato, sat longe pone apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone sulcum anticum longitudinaliter minus breviter canaliculato, lateribus ante sulcum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter series 9°™ 10°™ que haud cariniformi), foveolis basin versus obsoletis apicem versus gradatim minus quadratis minus seriatis magis confertis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum interstitiis transversis turbatis. Long., 341.; lat., 1 1. Var. (?immat.) pedibus sordide testaceis. This species is closely allied to A. eremita, Blackb. It differs from that insect in colour which is (invariably in all the exam- ples I have seen) dull bronzy above and blackish (tending to cyaneous) beneath, the antenne and palpi testaceous, the. front 136 tarsi somewhat ferruginous,—eremita being a brilliantly coloured and much more nitid insect. In eremita the seriate sculpture of the elytra reaches the actual base without any enfeeblement whatever so that there is no indication of the base of the elytra being more nitid than the rest of the surface, while in modestus on the basal portion of the elytra the seriate sculpture becomes very faint and sparse, so that that region is conspicuously more nitid than the general surface. In eremita the transverse carine separating fovea from fovea in the series are stronger than in modestus and more elongate (a greater number of them being continuous across several series of foveolz), causing the elytra to appear very manifestly more coarsely rugulose ; and in eremita the whole surface of the head is vaguely uneven, while in modestus the surface of the head is flat with merely a single fovea-like impression between the eyes. S. Australia and Victoria. SCROBIGER. Chevrolat (Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1874, p. 34) refers Opilo merens, Westw., to this genus. His statement does not appear to have been founded on an inspection of the type, and I believe it to be erroneous. According to the size given by its author it is a very much smaller insect than any known Serobiger, and inter alia its pronotum is very differently sculptured from that of other species of that genus and its palpi are all subequal. I presume that Chevrolat’s reason for regarding me@rens as a Scrobiger is Westwood’s calling its elytra in the front part “rude punctato-striata.” This phrase, however, is used by Westwood for elytra (e.g., those of Cleromorpha) which are infinitely less coarsely sculptured than those of Scrobiger. _Westwood’s locality for m@rens is Adelaide, and I think I am fairly well acquainted with the Clerid@é of the Adelaide district. J have seen only one Clerid which agrees with Westwood’s description, viz., the intro- duced Tarsostenus univittatus, Rossi, and that insect agrees with it very well and occurs near Adelaide. I have no doubt, there- fore, that the name Opilo merens must be regarded as a synonym of 7. wnivittatus. NEOSCROBIGER (gen. nov. Cleridarum). Palporum articulus apicalis securiformis ; caput breve; labrum transversum antice emarginatum; antenne modice (pro- thoracis basin vix superantes), clava sat laxe 3-articulata ; oculi modici, supra inter se distantes, subtiliter granulati, transversim subreniformes ; prothorax sat elongatus, postice angustum tubuliformis, supra pone apicem transversim sulcatus ; elytra sat elongata, quam trans basin lata plus quam duplo longiora, equalia, in parte apicali fere dimidia 137 sublevia ; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytrorum apicem plane vel fere attingentibus tarsis 5-articulatis, articulo basali (tarsorum omnium) superne haud manifesto, articulo ultimo robusto precedenti parum exserto, ungui- culis parvis simplicibus divaricatis; corpus modice elongatum, capillis erectis vestitum. Type Opilo patricius, Klug (sexnotatus, Westw.). O. patricius, Klug, cannot be rightly placed in any hitherto characterised genus. Its finely granulated eyes separate it strongly from Opilo; its tarsi (all apparently four-jointed,— owing to the basal joint being concealed,— when viewed from above), the securiform apical joint of its maxillary palpi, and its pronotum transversely sulcate near the front, in combination associate it with the Scrobiger group of genera. Among those genera its mesosternum not vertica] in front, its elytra neither fasciculate nor tuberculate and having a large apical space nitid and almost unpunctured, and its form (the elytra considerably more than twice as long as at the base wide) are sufficient to ‘distinguish it. Characters such as these appear to me certainly entitled to be treated as generic in the Cleridz, a family in which many ‘structural characters seem to be of less value than they are in most families, Metabasis and Thanasimomorpha, e.g. (also Tarsostenus and Parati/lus) being so much like each other respectively that it seems strange to separate them widely, and yet having a totally different tarsal structure one from another. No doubt structural differences must have their full weight, and it is out of the question to associate under one generic name species having such, but much study of the Australian Cleride satisfies me that it is also out of the question to associate under one generic name (at least as far as the Australian Cleride are concerned) species differing widely in facies and sculpture because ‘one cannot find important differences in the structure of the eyes, palpi, tarsi, &e. Aulicus, Trogodendron, Scrobiger, and the present genus, undoubtedly resemble each other closely in ‘structural characters, but each has so distinctive and constant a facies and type of sculpture that it seems unreasonable to merge any two of them under one generic name. Probably when their life histories and habits are fully known it will be found that each of these genera mimics the facies of the group of insects on ‘which it is parasitic. NV. rauciceps, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, postice sat dilatatus; sat nitidus ; zeneo-niger, labro antennis palpis tibiis tarsisque rufis, elytris ante medium macula discoidali et ad medium fascia sat lata albidis ornatis (parte apicali rufescenti dense albido pubescenti); capite confertim subgrosse ruguloso, 138 palporum maxillarium articulo ultimo leviter!’securiformi, antennis prothoracis basin paullo superantibus ; prothorace quam latiori vix longiori, supra antice ut caput (in disco retrorsum gradatim minus crebre) ruguloso, inzquali (antice angulatim mox ante basin recte transversim sulcato, pone sulcum anticum impresso, ante basin 3-tuberculato), lateri- bus mediis fortiter rotundato dilatatis; elytris a basi ultra medium seriatim sat grosse foveolatis, alibi levibus. Long., 41.; lat., 13,1 _ Much resembling WV. (Opile) sexnotatus, Westw., but with the apical joint of the maxillary palpi so feebly securiform as to suggest generic distinction. Compared with sexnotatus the markings on the elytra are whitish instead of yellow, the sub- apical spot wanting but the whole apex faintly reddish and densely clothed with whitish pubescence; the femora entirely dark ; the head and pronotum much more strongly rugulose, the surface of the latter being considerably more uneven behind; the elytra narrower at the base and consequently more dilated near the apex. I do not find any structural difference between this species and sernotatus except that in the maxillary palpi and a trifle less elongation of the hind femora. Victoria (Dividing Range). EBURIPHORA., This generic name must be removed from the Australian Catalogue, as its presence there rests on the authority of Klug’s Opilus patricius having been referred to Hburiphora. This Tas- manian insect is clearly identical with Westwood’s O. sexnotatus (also from Tasmania,—a species discussed above) and is certainly not an Hburiphora (inter alia it has not appendiculate claws). As Klug’s is the older name the species must be known as patricia, Klug. TARSOSTENUS. I do not believe that any member of this genus is native to Australia. I have myself taken and recorded the occurrence of T. univittatus, Rossi, near Adelaide, but it is no doubt introduced from some othercountry. The following notes relate to the three really Australian species that have been attributed to the genus. T. Mastersi, Macl. The description does not read at all like that of an insect very closely resembling Tarsostenus ; and if Macleay’s statement “‘ eyes coarsely granulate” be correct, the word “coarsely” being used in the sense Lacordaire uses it of Clerid genera, the species cannot be placed even near Tarsostenus. T. zonatus, Blanch. This species is certainly identical with Paratillus (Clerus) carus, Newm. Newman’s name has priority. T. pulcher, Macl. The description of this insect does not 139 suggest the idea of a TZarsostenus; indeed Macleay himself says that the insect has the appearance of a Tillus. I suspect, how- ever, that it is congeneric with the species described below as Tarsostenodes simulator. TARSOSTENODES (gen. nov. Cleridarum ). Palporum articulus apicalis securiformis; labrum transversum antice emarginatum ; antenne modice (prothoracis basin vix superantes), clava 3-articulata distincta articulis preecedenti- bus 4 conjunctis longitudine sat zquali; oculi modici, supra inter se sat distantes, fortiter convexi, sat subtiliter granu- lati, subrotundati, antice emarginati; prothorax elongatus, antice elongato- globulosus postice sub - tubuliformis (Homemote prothoracem simulans); elytra longissima angusta apicem versus sat abrupte (nonnihil globulose) dilatata, nec tuberculata nec fasciculata, notulis eburneis, ornata; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytrorum apicem haud attingentibus, tarsis 9-articulatis, articulo basali (tarsorum omnium) superne haud manifesto; ungui- culis subappendiculatis; corpus angustissimum, capillis erectis vestitum. The insect for which I propose this name mimics in a very remarkable manner Longicorn genera such as Homemota or Zoedia, in company with which I found it on flowers. I think it should be placed near Tarsostenus, from which inter alia the raised ivory-like markings on its elytra readily distinguish it. Clerus guttulus, White, is a member of this genus. L. simulator, sp. nov. Subopacus; lete viridis, labro palpis antennis pedibus scutello et pectore rufo-testaceis, elytris (basi apiceque late viridibus exceptis) rufo-cupreis, his lineis elevatis eburneis binis obliquis ornatis (sc. linea brevi ante- mediana a margine externo retrorsum, et linea longiori post: mediana a margine externo antrorsum, directis); capite pronotoque confertim subtilius rugulosis; elytris a basi ultra medium equaliter vix lineatim confertim sat grosse (alibi quam pronotnm paullo magis subtiliter) rugulosis. Long., 4 1. (vix); lat., 1 1 Very different from 7. (Olerus) guttulus, White, in its colours and markings; also, inter alia, by the notably wider club of its antenne. Victoria (Dividing Range). HY DNOCERA, This generic name must drop out of the Australian Catalogue, H. bella, Westw., having been recently shown by Herr Schenk- ling (Deutsch. Ent. Zeit, 1898, p. 180) to be a Lemidia. 140 PYLUS. P. anthicoides, Newm., has been stated by Gorham (Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1878, p. 154) to be an African species,—an assertion that is accepted by Lohde in his recent Catalogue. Newman certainly implies that it is Australian. Probably he was in error as to the place of capture,—or the specimen was an accidentally imported one. I have not seen any Australian Clerid agreeing with Newman’s description. TENEBRIONID~. HYPOCILIBE. Hi veternosa, sp. nov. Late ovata; minus opaca; nigra, anten- nis apicem versus et tarsis subtus picescentibus ; vix perspicue punctulato; clypeo utrinque vix perspicue impresso, antice late manifeste emarginato ; prothorace quam Jongiori ut 16 ad 9 (postice quam antice, ut 8 ad 6) latiori, antice modice emarginato (margine antico in parte mediana late recto), fortiter (a latere viso) convexo, lateribus modice arcuatis postice sinuatis, angulis anticis minus (posticis fortiter) acutis; scutello perlato, utrinque postice late profunde impresso ; elytris (a latere visis) valde con- vexis, leviter reticulatim strigosis, quam prothorax ut 12 ad 84 latioribus, lateribus rotundatis anguste reflexis, postice alte declivibus ; tibiis intus haud tomentosis; coxis anteri- oribus 4 pubescentibus. Long., 81; lat, 441 Differs from H. Macleayi, Bates, by the elytra without any trace of coste (even at the suture) and from H. impunctata, H. Rutenb., by the very distinct (though faintly impressed) reticula- tion of the elytra which is due to the presence of numerous wrinkles irregularly traversing the surface. The strongly convex form of the pronotum causing its outline (viewed from the side) to appear very strongly declivous in its hinder one-fourth, the extremely convex elytra (with their greatest height—viewed from the side—considerably behind the middle), the clypeus dis- tinctly emarginate in front, the scutellum deeply excavated on either side in the hinder part, and the densely pubescent anterior 4 cox, are characters that in combination distinguish this species from all its described congeners (excluding the two already mentioned,—of which I have not seen examples). It is nearest to H. heroina, Blackb., which, however, is a much larger and more nitid insect, with the clypeus rounded in front, the surface of the scutellum even, the refiexed edging of the elytra pay wider, &., &c. S. Australia (Basin of Lake Eyre); taken by Herr Koch near re 141 CURCULIONID i. ALCIDES. A. terrereging, sp. nov. Sat parallelus; sat cylindricus ;. castaneus, prothorace antennis tarsis et corpore subtus. obscurioribus ; pronoto ad latera dense albo-squamoso ;. elytris maculis quinis albo-squamosis ornatis (sc. 1* basali lineari longitudinali in interstitio 3° sita, 2° parva in interstitio 7° hujus ad longitudinis medium sita, 3° post- mediana in interstitio 3° sita, 4* quam 3* vix posteriori in interstitio 7° sita, 5° subapicali in interstitio 4° sita), corpore subtus plus minusve dense albo-squamoso; rostro modice elongato leviter arcuato ; prothorace quam in medio longiori: paullo latiori, subquadrato, sat crebre ruguloso; scutello punctiformi; elytris striatis, striis grossissime nec crebre punctulatis, interstitiis sat angustis sat rugulose punctulatis ;. femoribus subtus dente magno serrato armatis; tibiis. arcuatis ; segmento ventrali 2° quam 3” paullo longiori. Long. (rostr. excl.) 24 1.; lat., 1 1. This little species is very distinct from all ,its congeners of which I have been able to see the descriptions ; from all its descriked Australian congeners it differs widely, zmter alia, by the markings of its elytra, which consist of 5 spots on each elytron, one of them being an elongate line on the basal portion of the 3rd interstice and there being no spots on the suture or lateral margins. In shape it closely resembles A. brevicollis, Pasce. (as figured in Ann. Mus. Gen., 1885, T.1., fig. 7), but with the prothorax very much less transverse. In one of the examples before me there are traces of a scaly spot near the middle of the base of the pronotum. Queensland (near Charters Towers). ANTHRIBID Ai. This family is somewhat numerously represented in Australia, though but few of its genera seem to be plentiful in species and but few of its species plentiful in individuals. Its Australian genera (including the new ones I form in the following pages) having more than doubled in number since the issue of Masters’ Catalogue in 1886, it seems desirable to furnish a table showing their relation inter se. In trying to meet this requirement [ have in the main followed the lines of Lacordaire’s classification, adopting his principal division based upon the position of the scrobes in which the antenne are inserted, and also his principal division of the larger group (Pleurocéres,—having the scrobes lateral) into two aggregates with the transverse carina of the pronotum (a) antebasal (5) basal. Lacordaire’s principal character for dividing the second main group (Anocéres) does not at present. 142 concern us, since the second aggregate of that group has not been reported as Australian. Beyond this I have not strictly followed Lacordaire, as his principal (so far as concerns the Australian Anthribide) subdivisions of the two main aggregates of the Pileurocéres,—based on the width of the rostrum at its base and the more or less cylindric form of the body,—seem to shade off into each other in a somewhat perplexing manner. [ Lacordaire, e.g., tabulates the true Anthribides as of oblong or oval,—con- trasted with cylindric,—form, but in the detailed diagnoses of their genera calls some of them “almost cylindric,” ‘“ subcylin- dric,” and even unreservedly “cylindric.”] I have adopted in the place of those characters others which Lacordaire treats as subordinate to them, founded on (a) the relation between the upper and lower edge of the rostral scrobe, in the one case the lower edge protruding outwards further than the upper edge or the upper edge cutting into the lateral margin of the rostrum, so that the scrobe is visible from above ; in the other case the upper edge not cutting into the lateral margin of the rostrum and the lower edge not protruding outwards beyond the upper, and the scrobe consequently being entirely invisible from above (6) the form of the eye. | Of the Anthribid genera known as Australian I have been able to include in the following tabulation all except Telala,—which is a genus characterised by Mr. Jordan (Ent. Z. Stett, 1895, p. 143). I do not think that it is represented among the Anthribide before me, and as its author does not say whether the rostral scrobes are visible from above I cannot place it in my tabulation without seeing it. It is founded on a species of moderately large size, with spinose elytra. Tabulation of the Anthribid genera known to be Australian :— A. Antenne inserted on the side of the rostrum. B. A transverse carina (independent of the base) on the pronotum. C. Prosternum and mesosternum elevated and contiguous aa ais us CC. Prosternum and mesosternum not as in Bythoprotus. D. Rostral scrobes visible from above, and not basal vertical and sulciform. E. Eyes small and very elongate. F. Carina of pronotum strongly arched .... Ancylotropis. FF. Carina of pronotum straight... ... Genethila. EE. Eyes not as in the preceding two genera. F. Eyes approximate on the forehead ... Litocerus. FF. Eyes lateral, and distantfrom one another. G. Carina of pronotum straight ... ... Ethneca. GG. Carina of pronotum strongly arched ... Commista. DD. Rostral scrobes not visible from above unless they are basal vertical and sulciform. E. Eyes entire or nearly so. Bythoprotus. 143 F. Rostral scrobes slightly visible from above, basal, vertical, and sulciform. G. Club of antenne 4-jointed GG. Club of antenne 3-jointed FF. Rostral scrobes quite invisible from above. G. Rostral scrobes distinctly sulciform. H. The rostrum forms a perfectly even surface with the head HH. The rostrum is on a different plane from the head ao0 oP GG. Rostral scrobes foveiform. H. Metasternum not extremely short. I. Antenne notably shorter than head and prothorax. J. Joint 9 of antennze peancey wider than 8 o JJ. Joint 9 of antenne as wide as joint 10. K. Antennal club compact KK. Antennal club loosely articu- late 3 II. Antenne considerably longer than head and prothorax Be HH. Metasternum extremely short EE. Eyes strongly emarginate : BB. The transverse carina of the -pronotum coincides with the base (at any rate in the middle). C. Rostral scrobes strongly sulciform; antennz notably shorter than head and prothorax CC. Rostral scrobes and antennz not as in Basitroprs. D. Front cox widely separated from one another. K. Rostrum emarginate at apex and not ae an even surface with the head EE. Rostrum truncate at apex and forming an even surface with the head DD. Front coxe subcontiguous or very narrowly separated. K. Antenne not reaching the base of the pro- thorax, and more or less stout. F. Rostral scrobes visible from above ie FF. Rostral scrobes not visible from above ... EE. Antenne reaching much beyond base of prothorax (at any rate in male) and ex- tremely slender. F. Joint 3 of antenne at least twice as long as 1 and 2 together. G. Basal joint of hind tarsi notably longer than 2 and 3 together GG. Basal joint of hind tarsi about equal to 2 and 3 together... FF. Joint 3 of antennz about equal to 1 and 2 together ... AA. Antenne insertedonthe upper surface of the rostrum. B. Eyes rounded or widely oval, somewhat finely granulate. C. Apex of front tibiz with a strong Spine ene cular to the axis of the tibia CC. Apex of front tibize normal. Kucorynus. Ecelonerus. Entromus. Epargemus. Enspondus. Tropideres. Apatenia. Cacephatus. Xvnotropis. Xenocerus. Basitropis. Phleeobius, Streneoderma. Ozotomerus, Cratoparis. Exillis. Euciodes. Notecia. Areocorynus. 144 D. Eyes very large and prominent. Antenne equal in length to two-thirds of body ... Misthosima. DD. Eyes much smaller and less convex. Antenne half as long as body. K. Front tarsi very long and wide _... ... Doticus. EE. Front tarsi much shorter and narrower ... Arzocerus. BB. Eyes narrow and elongate, coarsely granulate ... Arzocerodes, EUCORYNUS. The following species seems to belong to this genus, which has not as yet been recorded as Australian. The presence of an ante-basal carina on its pronotum together with the width of its rostrum (not narrower at its hase than the head) and the sulci- form character of its antennal scrobes refer it to M. Lacordaire’s “oroupe” Heelonerides. In that ‘ groupe” the four-jointed club of its antenne refers it to Hucorynus, and I do not find anything in M. Lacordaire’s diagnosis of the genus inconsistent with the characters of the insect described below, except in the antenne of the insect being somewhat shorter than they should be accord- ing to the diagnosis. EH. Mastersi, sp. nov. Cylindricus ; nigro-piceus, antennis (clava excepta) tarsisque rufis; pube picea vestitus, hac pube alba et setulis erectis piceis et aliis albis maculatim variegata ; capite rostroque crebre subgrosse equaliter punctulatis ; pronoto leviter transverso, ut caput punctulato, antice fortiter angustato, lateribus sat arcuatis; elytris leviter striatis, striis fortiter nec crebre punctulatis, interstitiis planis vix perspicue punctulatis ; antennis robustis prothor- acis basin attingentibus, articulis 1° 2° que quam 3" paullo brevioribus, 4° 3° sat quali, 5°-—7° paullo brevioribus, 8°— 11° clavam compactam depressam (hac quam articuli 4°°—7™ conjuncti paullo breviori) formantibus. Long., 41.; lat., 13 1. The erect sete are fine and recurved and are piceous or white according to the colour of the depressed pubescence among which they are situated. The white spots are,—about 5 moderately large on the head, a considerable number (all small) on the pronotum, a considerable number (all small except a larger one on the shoulder) on the front half of the elytra, and a large one and a number of small ones on the apical one-third of the elytra. The tibize and abdomen are prettily variegated with piceous and white pubescence, and there is much scattered white pubescence on the rostrum. The two examples before me are probably females, which may account for their antenne being shorter than in the specimens of Hucorynus examined by Lacordaire, which he believed to be males. Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. Masters and Mr. Cowley. 145 ENTROMUS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum ; rostrum planum depressum, quam latius sublongius, antice emarginatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, scrobibus obtectis foveiformibus sed oblique retrorsum (ut sulci male definiti) productis; antenne graciles, prothoracem medium paullo superantes, articulis basalibus 2 paullo incrassatis (2° quam 1 multo longiori), 3° 2° longitudine quali, 3°—8° gradatim brevioribus, 9°— 11° clavam oblongam formantibus, 9° obconico vix trans- verso, 10° brevi sat transverso, 11° leviter transversim obovato; oculi parvi integri sat subtiliter granulati ; pro- thorax vix transversus, vix ineequalis (basin versus trans- versim rugatus), sat convexus, antice minus fortiter ~angustatus, carina antebasali male definita cum rugis transversis adjacentibus subconfusa, in prothoracis lateribus vix perspicue producta ; scutellum sat parvum; elytra lata ' depressa, inequalia, leviter striata, striis punctulatis; cox antics appoximate inter se; pedes modici, inter se sat eequales ; tarsi breves, articulo basali quam 2" parum longiori, 3° in 2° inserto; unguiculi subtus dente armati ; metasternum modicum; pygidium (exempli typici) elytris tectum ; corpus pubescens. This genus is difficult to place in Lacordaire’s scheme of classi- fication, although it seems to me unnatural to place it far from - Tropideres. But according to Lacordaire the fact of its rostral scrobes being certainly not simply foveiform would remove it from the “ groupe” “ Tropiderides.” These are almost exactly as in Heelonerus in outline, but differ in commencing in a fovei- form excavation, the wall of which is interrupted at its postero- interior portion from which a shallow somewhat ill-defined sulcus emerges and simulates the deep strongly defined sulcus of Ecelonerus. The short wide depressed form of the type of this. genus removes it, however, according to M. Lacordaire, from the Ecelonerides. The structure of the basal part of the pronotum is unlike that of any other Australian Anthribid known to me, the ante-basal carina appearing merely as one (a little more con- spicuous than the rest) of several fine transverse ridges, and (though very distinct and well-defined near the lateral margins of the pronotum) becoming very faint as it approaches the middle line of the pronotum. From Tropideres itself it differs, inter alia, by the greatly elongated 2nd joint of its antenne. I believe the specimen before me to be a male, but am not sure. Tropideres musivus, Eir., and albuginosus, Er., are probably con- generic with this insect, but the descriptions of those species seem to indicate a different arrangement of the inequalities of the elytra, &c. K 146 £. dorsoplagiatus, sp. nov. Piceus, pube picea albaque variega- tus ; hac rostrum scutellum que dense vestienti et in elytris maculam magnam quadratam communem formanti; antennis pedibusque rufis, his pube picea et alba variegatis; rostro longitudinaliter 3-carinato ; prothorace inzqualiter ruguloso- punctulato, dorso obsolete inzquali; elytrorum interstitiis 3° 5° que carinatis, parte posticali subverticali, interstitiis 3° 5° que mox ante declivitatem posticam valde callosis, inter hee interstitio 4° rufo, interstitiis alternis (parte maculam dorsalem albam ferenti excepta) tuberculis parvis nigris instructis ; macula dorsali alba maculis parvis nigris perpaucis interrupta et ad latera crenulata. Long., 341; lat., 14 1. The common white spot on the elytra is so densely pubescent that the underlying sculpture is entirely concealed. The spot occupies in its front all the width between the seventh interstices of the two elytra but narrows a little to its apex where it oceu- pies the width between the two fifth interstices. Its front margin ~ is a little behind the base of the elytra but in its middle runs for- ward triangularly to the scutellum ; its sides are somewhat zig- zagged, being cut into most conspicuously by a black spot a little behind the middle; its apex (a little in front of the hind decliv- ity) is arcuately and irregularly emarginate and its surface is interrupted by a few very small black spots. The red pubescence near the apex of the elytra is not entirely confined to the fourth interstices but appears as spots on some of the other interstices, and there is also a little white pubescence near the apex. The third and fifth interstices of the elytra are a little more strongly elevated near the base than in the middle of their length. It is (as already noted) very probable that Tropideres musivus, Er., and albuginosus, Er., are congeneric with this insect. Assuming them to be so this insect differs from them specifically,—_from musivus, inter alia, by its considerably larger size, by its not having three fascicles of pubescence on its prothorax and by the proportions of its antennal joints,—from albuginosus, inter alia multa, by its antenne not long enough to reach the base of the prothorax. Victoria ; sent to me by Mr. Kershaw. EPARGEMUS (gen nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum ; rostrum planum, depressum, quam latius vix longius, cum capite nullo modo continuum, mox ante basin angustatum (et hic quam inter oculos caput sub- angustius), hinc antrorsum ad apicem gradatim dilatatum, - antice truncatum, scrobibus obtectis foveiformibus sed oblique retrorsum (ut sulci male definiti) productis; antennz sat robuste, prothoracem medium vix superantes, articulis 147 basalibus 2 leviter incrassatis (2° quam basalis vix breviori), 3° quam 2" manifeste longiori, 3°—8° gradatim brevioribus, 9°—11° clavam oblongam formantibus, 9° vix transverso, 10° brevi transverso, 11° vix transverso quam 9" vix breviori ; oculi sat magni, integri, sat subtiliter granulati; prothorax transversus, vix inequalis, sat convexus, antice et postice fortiter angustatus (margine antico quam basis sat angus- tiori), carina antebasali bene definita retrorsum in medio angulata in prothoracis lateribus vix perspicue producta ; scutellum parvum ; elytra convexa, inequalia, leviter striata, striis subtiliter sat crebre punctulatis ; coxez antics inter se manifeste separate; pedes modici, inter se sat equales; tarsi modici, articulo basali quam 2"* sat longiori, 3° in 2° inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum minus breve (quam segmentum ventrale basale vix longius) ; pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens. This genus is difficult to place in Lacordaire’s arrangement. Tts rostral scrobes are much like those of #. dersoplagiatus, being of oblong form and running hindward obliquely on the under surface of the head, but scarcely long and deep enough to be called unreservedly ‘‘sulciform.” It is difficult to say whether Lacordaire would have placed it in the groups having the base of the rostrum narrower than the head, the rostrum being scarcely (but nevertheless a little) narrower a little in front of the base than the head between the eyes. To me it appears that it ought not to stand far from Tropideres, although a strict application of Lacordaire’s tabulation-characters would place it in the “« Phlaophilides,” but in the diagnosis of that “groupe” “scrobes découvertes ” is one of the characters, which they certainly are not in this genus—nor does the species before me agree in its general characters or facies with any genus known to me of that group. I believe the specimen on which I have founded this genus to be a male. E. marmoratus, sp. nov. Picea, pube nigricanti ochrea et alba variegata, antennis (clava excepta) et pedibus (plus minusve) rufescentibus ; capite rostroque (his haud continue planis) crebre rugulose punctulatis, rostro longitudinaliter obsolete carinato ; prothorace quam longiori fere ut 4 ad 3 latiori, supra longitudinaliter sat dense rugato, lateribus ab apice longe ultra medium arcuatim divergentibus hinc ad basin fortiter convergentibus,—elytris inter humeros et scutellum (et in humeris) callosis, interstitiis alternis leviter convexis et tuberculis nonnullis parvis instructis ; corpore subtus sat eequaliter albido-pubescenti; pedibus maculatim albo- et piceo-pubescentibus. : Var pubis pallide colore brunneo-testaceo, lLong., 221.; lat. fet. 3 148 In a fresh specimen the sculpture of the derm is almost. entirely concealed by the pubescence, even the callosities near the base of the elytra being scarcely discernible; these are not strongly marked even in an abraded example; that between the scutellum and the shoulder is the larger, and appears feebly bifid from some points of view. The pattern formed by pube- scence of different colours is extremely intricate and difficult to describe. The rostrum is entirely clothed with pale pubescence ; on the head dark, pale, and ochreous pubescence are vaguely intermingled ; on the pronotum the middle of the disc and base is dark with a few pale spots, the front and sides being mostly pale with some dark patches ; the pubescence of the front two- thirds of the elytra is dark, irrorated with pale hairs, which are condensed (interruptedly) along some of the alternate interstices and in small spots near the sides; the apical one-third of the elytra is occupied by a large common patch (which however does not reach the margins) of pale pubescence, close to the lateral margins of which (and about their middle) is a conspicuous dark spot, while another conspicuous dark spot occupies the sutural apical space on each elytron. The small indistinct tubercles on the alternate interstices are clothed, some with ochreous, some with very dark, pubescence. In an absolutely unabraded speci- men the front part of the fifth interstice appears more strongly elevated than the other interstices, but this seems to be due to longer and closer pubescence, as I do not find it in abraded specimens. The greatest dilatation of the sides of the prothorax is at the extremities of the ante-basal carina, from which point the sides converge both forward and hindward. Victoria and N.S. Wales (specimens in the S.A. Museum are without indication of habitat, but are probably from 8.A.). ENSPONDUS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum ; rostrum depressum planum, cum capite Bawa continuum, breve, transversum, quam caput haud angustius, scrobibus lateralibus, magnis, foveiformibus, obtectis ; an- tenne modice, prothoracem medium paullo superantes, articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustioribus (2° quam 1™* paullo longiori), 2°—5° longitudine sat zqualibus, 6°—8° paullo brevioribus, 9° quam 8" paullo longiori sed parum latiori, 10° 11° que clavam formantibus quam 9™ duplo latioribus, 10° vix 11° haud transversis, 11° obconico; oculi modici integri, sat subtiliter granulati, inter se late separati; prothorax vix transversus, valde inzqualis, sat convexus, antice fortiter angustatus, carina antebasali basi sat ap- proximata bene definita leviter antrorsum arcuata in pro- thoracis lateribus fere ad medium producta ; scutellum parvum; elytra convexa, inequalia, striata; coxe anticz 149 subcontigue ; pedes modici, inter se sat equales ; tarsi sat elongati, articulo basali quam 2" sat longiori, 3° in 2° inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum modicum (quam segmentum ventrale basale paullo longius); pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens. The insect for which I propuse this generic name cannot be referred to any existing genus that I can disccver. In Lacor- daire’s classification its place is in the “Groupe” Tropiderides. [In his tabulation of the genera of that groupe its place is doubt- ful, the ante-basal carina of its pronotum having its convexity forward, but not nearly so strongly as in the genera he places in the aggregate distinguished by that character. Among them the tabulation would make it Hypseus (though its eyes are scarcely “very finely” granulate)—but Hypseus has very different antenne, and eyes converging on the forehead. If the forward arch of the carina be regarded as too slight to place the insect in the Hypseus aggregate, Lacordaire’s tabulation would make it doubtfully an Apatenia,—but that genus has eyes and antenne like those of Hypseus,—inter alia joints 9 and 10 of the antennz being equal to each other.. The most striking character of the insect before me consists in there being only two joints in the elub of its antenne, joint 9 evidently belonging to the funiculus and being not much longer and wider than the eighth joint. Judging by the ventral segments (less convex and not overlap- ping the edge of the pygidium in one,—more convex and just covering the edge of the pygidium in another) I think I have both sexes before me, and if so there is little or no superficial sexual difference. E. bigibbosus, sp. nov. ‘Oblongus; piceus pube cinerea ochrea brunneaque variegata, antennis (clava excepta) pedibusque (his fusco-variegatis) rufescentibus ; capite rostro pronotoque erebre subtilius rugulosis ; hoc in disco paullo pone medium tuberculis 2 magnis fasciculatis ornato; elytris confertim subtilissime subaspere punctulatis, subtiliter punctulato- striatis, interstitiis alternis quam cetera vix magis elevatis (3° pone basin et in medio, 5° ante apicem, tuberculis singulis fasciculatis ornatis) et fasciculis parvis pilosis variegatis. Long., 21.; lat., $1. This insect is easily recognisable by the presence, on either side of the middle line of the pronotum, of a large tubercle bearing a fasciculus of hairs. There is a smaller fasciculated tubercle near the base and another about the middle of the 3rd elytral in- terstice, and also another near the apex of the dth interstiee. There are also very small fascicles (beneath which the derm is searcely tuberculate) on the alternate interstices, most con- spicuous on the subsutural interstice and becoming gradually less 150 so towards the lateral margins. The surface of a specimen in good condition is of an ashy colour, being densely clothed with: brownish and whitish bairs very evenly intermingled. On this ashy ground the tubercles and fascicles show as dark spots, their vestiture being fuscous with an intermixture of ochreous. The whitish pubescence somewhat predominates along the central line of the pronotum, and in the form of a wide, very indistinct fascia, a short distance behind the base of the elytra. The pubescence so closely and thickly clothes the surface that its sculpture is. entirely invisible, excepting the two large tubercles on the pronotum and the three smaller ones on each elytron. The scutellum is white. The tubercles are a little larger in some examples than in others. S. Australia. TROPIDERES (?) It is with great hesitation that I refer to Tropideres, the minute Anthribid described below. Nevertheless, it seems to lack any character that would definitely exclude it from the heterogeneous aggregate of species which the genus, as characterised by M. Lacordaire, is made to contain, at any rate, unless the fact of the 2nd joint of its antenne being much longer than the basal joint be in itself deemed sufticient. The following are its structural characters :—Head wide, rostrum scarcely transverse, at its base as wide as the head, scarcely emarginate in front, its sides parallel, its scrobes lateral fovei- form and concealed, its plane not evenly continuous with that of the head; antenne not long enough to reach the base of the prothorax, joint | short, joint 2 very evidently longer than 1, 3 a little longer and more slender tnan 2, joints 3-8 gradually shorter, 9-11 forming an oblong but compact club, 9 longer than 10, which is transverse ; eyes fairly large and prominent, finely granulated and widely separated from each other; prothorax gently transverse, narrowed from base to front, but not strongly, its surfaee even, its antebasal carina arched with convexity hindward (very close to the base but distinct from it in the middle, forming a right angle with its lateral extension which is not strongly defined and does not very nearly reach the middle of the lateral margin); elytra slightly gibbous close to the base on the disc, but otherwise even or nearly so, obscurely punctulate striate ; front cox almost contiguous to each other ; legs some- what short and of nearly equal length ; tarsi moderately long, their basal joint considerably longer than the second; body convex, gently oblong-ovate, pubescent; metasternum on the middle line about as long as the basal ventral segment. T. evaneseens, sp. nov. Piceus, antennis (clava excepta) pedi- busque rufescentibus; pube sat elongata albida disperse 151 vestitus ; supra crebre minus subtiliter (in prothorace paullo magis subtiliter) aspere punctulatus; elytris indistincte punctulato-striatis. Long., 14 1.; lat., $1. (vix). I have described the characters of this insect (above) in dis- cussing its generic position fully, and need not repeat them here. Ido not think my example is abraded. Its upper surface is thinly clothed with rather long adpressed fine whitish hairs which are slightly condensed into two very indistinct fascice on the elytra, in front of and behind the middle. On the undersurface the pubescence is more even and slightly closer. S. Australia; Eyre’s Peninsula. CACEPHATUS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput sat breve; rostrum transversum, sat planum, cum capite haud continuum, ad apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, scrobibus lateralibus magnis foveiformibus obtectis; antennz corpus medium attingentes, robuste, articulis basalibus 2 leviter incrassatis (2° quam 1"* sub- longiori), 3°—8° elongatis inter se subzqualibus, 9°—11° clavam laxam formantibus, 9° quam lato sat longiori, 10° quam 9"* vix latiori sed brevi leviter transverso, 11° ovali ; oculi magni integri subtilius granulati, antrorsum in fronte sat fortiter convergentes; prothorax leviter transversus, antrorsum fere a basi angustatus, equalis, carina antebasali basi sat approximata bene definita retrorsum arcuata ad latera angulata (nullo modo acute) et antrorsum fere ad latera media producta; scutellum parvum; elytra sat con- vexa, late subcylindrica, sat qualia, punctulato-striata ; coxe antice inter se anguste separate; pedes sat elongati (presertim antici); tarsi sat elongati, articulo basali quam 2"° multo longiori, 3° in 2° inserto; unguiculi subtus dente basali armati; metasternum modicum (quam segmentum ventrale basale parum longius); pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens. The insect for which I propose this name is evidently a member of Lacordaire’s ‘“‘Groupe” ‘“ Tropiderides,” and in his tabulation of the genera it evidently stands with Apatenia, from which its long antennz having their tenth joint transverse and very much shorter than the ninth, znter alia, distinguish it. C. sericeus, sp. nov. Brunneus, pube albido-sericea vestitus ; supra confertim subtiliter subaspere punctulatus ; elytris ad basin singulatim leviter gibbis, minus fortiter striatis, striis subtilius sat crebre punctulatis, interstitiis vix subconvexis, sculptura postice obsoleta. Long., 24 1.; lat., 1 1. The characters cited in the generic diagnosis need not be rex peated here. There are three examples before me, all of which 152 appear to be somewhat abraded. It is manifest however that the whitish pubescence clothes the head and pronotum somewhat evenly. On the elytra the pubescence is interrupted by small patches of darker colour showing (in the examples before me) the derm, but I suspect that in a fresh specimen the dark spots are clothed with pubescence of the colour of the derm,—as I find some indication of such pubescence on some of the spots. XYNOTROPIS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum planum ; rostrum transversum planum cum capite omnino continuum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, scrobibus foveiformibus obtectis; antenne sat graciles, prothoracis basin attingentes, articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes paullo robustiores (2° longiori), 2° 3° que inter se longitudine equalibus, 5°—5° gradatim brevioribus, 6°— 8° moniliformibus, 9°—11° clavam sat compactam formantibus, 9° 10° que inter se sat equalibus fortiter transversis, 11° subgloboso ; oculi modici, fortiter convexi, sat fortiter granulati; prothorax transversus sat zqualis, fortiter convexum, antice super caput fortiter anguste pro- minens, carina ante-basali bene definita arcuata retrorsum convexa in lateribus vix perspicue producta; scutellum parvum ; elytra fortiter convexa, equalia, sat breviter ovalia, punctulato-striata; coxe antice inter se bene separate ; pedes modici, inter se sat equales; tarsi breves articulo basali (tarsorum anticorum vix, posticorum mani- feste) quam 2° longiori, 3° in 2° inserto; unguiculi subtus dente acuto armati; metasteruum brevissimum; pygidium manifestum sat latum; corpus supra obscure metallicum, pilis elongatis adpressis maculatim ornatum. The shape of the insect for which I found this genus (with its strongly convex oval elytra, somewhat suggesting the thought of Otiorhynchus) together with the metallic gloss of its surface, renders it very easy of identification. In Lacordaire’s classifica- tion it falls into the ‘‘Groupe” Z'ropiderides by virtue of the following characters:—Antennz inserted in the sides of the rostrum, ante-basal carina of pronotum present, rostrum short flat, and at base not narrower than the head, rostral scrobes foveiform, eyes entire, sides of rostrum sub-parallel. Its struc- tural characters seem to place it near Z'ropideres, from which it differs by, inter alia, its general build and extremely short metasternum which is not longer on its middle line than the shortest of the ventral segments. The metasternum is moderately short in 7'ropideres, but not nearly so short as in this genus. X. micans, sp. nov. Ovalis; sat nitida; supra picea, obscure aureo- et cupreo-micans; maculatim albido - pubescens; 153 subtus nigra, vix aurata, vix pubescens; antennis (clava excepta) pedibusque (femorum basi excepta) rufis; capite pronotoque confertim aspere punctulatis; elytris vix striatis, grossissime seriatim punctulatis; sternis fere ut pronotum, abdomine subtiliter, punctulatis. Long., 14 1.; lat., $1. The metallic glow on this species—though quite unmistakeable -—is by no means brilliant ; it is of an evidently coppery tone on the front part of the pronotum, but very little noticeable on the ‘rest of that segment, and on the elytra is brassy. On the example ‘before me (which I took myself and am confident is not materially injured by abrasion) the whitish pubescence is thinly and ‘vaguely dispersed on the head and pronotum with very little ‘tendency to be condensed anywhere, while it clothes the scutellum densely, and on the elytra forms a wide ill-defined lateral margin and some not very conspicuous dorsal blotches which range them- -selves somewhat in the form of two very arcuately transverse rows (their convexity directed forward), one behind the other in ‘front of the middle. Tasmania ; Lake district. BASITROPIS. The Australian species of this genus appear to be entirely Northern in distribution and rare (as regards individual speci- ‘mens) but probably numerous. I have before me six specimens which represent at least four and possibly six species. In five of ‘them the markings of the upper surface are extremely similar while in one they are entirely different from those of the five. “Three species have been described from Australia. In one of ‘them (solitarius, Pasc.) the alternate interstices of the elytra are -said to be “raised,” which is not the case in any of the spevimens before me. The descriptions of the other two are so meacre as ‘to be almost useless. However one of my specimens agrees with ‘the description (such as it is) of B. ingrata, Pasc., and may ‘possibly be that insect,—but I cannot regard any of them as rreconcilable with the description of B. peregrina, Pasc., which is represented as having ‘‘an obscure yellowish-grey band near the apex,” consisting of pubescence, and being long., 31. The speci- mens before me (except that already mentioned as B. ingrata ?) are all decidedly larger and have two bands of pale-coloured pubescence neither of which is at all “obscure.” I must con- ‘sider therefore that I have not seen B. peregrina or BP. solitaria. In respect of its generic characters the diagnoses of Basitropis are very incomplete, owing to the want of detail as to sexual ‘characters. Jekel (the author of the genus) does not refer to them, but his description and figure do not altogether agree with 154 Lacordaire’s statement. The former says that the antennal club consists of three joints while the latter somewhat inconsistently states (in the generalities of the “Groupe ”) that in the male the club consists of four or five joints, and then in the formal diagnosis affirms that joints 6-8 are grudually transverse and that. joints 9-11 form the club; and that the females can hardly be distinguished from the males except by their shorter antenne. Turning to the specimens before me I find a slight difference in the structure of the ventral segments between two of them and the other four,—the two having those segments distincly though slightly depressed down the middle line and the apical ventral segment so related to the pygidium that when the ventral seg- ments are looked at from directly above (the specimen being laid on its back) the edge of the pygidium can be seen beyond it, while the ventral segments of the other four are evenly convex and the apex of the apical segment just covers and conceals from sight the edge of the pygidium. The two specimens have antennz in which joints 6-8 are so strongly and gradually dilated that it is difficult to say at which joint the club really begins (which might account for Lacordaire’s contradictory statements),—while the antenne of the other four have a distinctly three-jointed club and are I think females,—the two being males. I take it that Jekel founded the genus on the female, and that Lacordaire diagnosed a male and either failed to observe the antenne of the female correctly, or regarded as male and female specimens that were really the males of two species. The genus is a very well marked one among the Australian Anthribide by the unusual] character of the antennal scrobes being basal and sulciform, in conjunction with the ante-basal carina of the pronotum wanting and the lateral carine continued. nearly to the apex where they do not form an angle. I observe in all the specimens before me that the carine of the pronotum. are finely and closely denticulate in their entire length but as this character is not referred to by Jekel or Lacordaire it may not be present in B. nitidicutis, Jekel (from India and Java), the typical species. It is to be noted that M. Lacordaire describes under the name Gynandrocerus an African genus which he says differs from. Basitropis only by the sexual antennal characters which approach. those I have described above. If there is really no other differ- ence between the two genera Gynandrocerus cannot stand. B. relicta, sp. nov. Mas. Cylindrica; picea, pube densissima. nigro-picea vestita, hac pube pallida partim testacea partim alba variegata; capite subgrosse sat crebre zqualiter punctulato; rostro fortiter transverso, inzquali, postice longitudinaliter obsolete canaliculato, antice arcuatim. 155 emarginato ; antennis robustis prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis basali crasso superne nullo modo visibili, 2° quam basalis breviori minus crasso quam latiori vix longiori, 3° 4° que inter se sat equalibus quam 2" sat longioribus, 5° quam 4" paullo breviori ad apicem dilatato quam latiori parum longiori, 6° intus ad apicem dilatato transverso quam 5"* paullo breviori, 7° intus etiam magis dilatato quam longiori duplo latiori quam 6" vix breviori, 8° 7° similis sed paullo magis transverso, 9° 10° que inter se zquilatis (hoc paullo breviori) quam 8"* parum latioribus, 11° breviter transversim subovato; oculis in fronte modice inter se approximatis; prothorace vix transverso, squall, subgrosse minus profunde nonnihil acervatim punctulato, lateribus a basi longe ultra medium sat parallelis dein con- vergentibus ; elytris striatis, striis fortiter mec crebre punctulatis, interstitiis planis; coxis anticis subcontiguis. Long., 44 1.; lat., 12 1. The markings of the surface are caused by patches of pube- scence different in colour from the ground. On the upper surface the pubescence forming the ground is of a smoky blackish tone ; on the head and prothorax there are numerous small spots of testaceous brown; the scutellum is covered with white pube- scence ; on the elytra spots (very various in size) of white pube- scence form two zones—one post-basal, the other ante-apical. The post-basal zone is an irregular common festoon of unequal spots with its ends on the shoulders ; the ante-basal zone is on each elytron a transverse spot of irregularly triangular form— its base near but not touching the suture, its apex (which is truncate) near but not touching the lateral margin. Besides the two zones there are a few small white pubescent spots about the lateral margin and apex The undersurface and legs are densely clothed with pale grey very fine pubescence. On this ground coarse puncturation appears as dark spots on the sterna, there is an elongate spot of ochreous pubescence on the lateral margins of each ventral segment, and the legs are variegated with dark pubescence. Joints 9 and 10 of the antenne are scarcely narrower than the interval between the eyes. A specimen from N. Queensland may be the female of this species. Its antenne are a trifle shorter than those of the described male and distinctly more slender, their basal 7 joints cylindric and not differing much in size except in the 4th being somewhat the longest, the 8th is distinctly dilated and trans- verse, joints 9—11 forming a club, and much like joints 9—11 of the male, but less dilated. The only differences that I observe (not already mentioned) from the male consist in the eyes being a little less approximate to each other, and the elytra having 156 (besides the zones of white pubescence) numerous small white pubescent spots sprinkled over the whole surface. On the whole IT incline to think this specimen the female of a species distinct from that of which the male is described above. An example from Port Darwin agrees with the above descrip- tion of the male except in its smaller size (Long. 321.), and in the pale pubescence of its elytra being of a distinctly ochreous ‘tone. N. Queensland. B. pallida, sp. nov. Fem. Sat cylindrica, postice paullo angustata ; picea, pedibus antennisque rufescentibus ; pube adpressa densissima testacea alba et fusca lete intermixta vestita ; capite subgrosse sat crebre equaliter punctulato ; rostro sat fortiter transverso, longitudinaliter indistincte carinato, antice leviter emarginato ; antennis minus robustis prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis basali erasso superne nullo modo visibili, 2°—4° inter se sat zequali- ‘bus quam basalis longioribus, 5°—7° inter se sat zqualibus quam 4"° sat brevioribus, 8° quam 7” paullo longiori antror- sum leviter dilatato, 9°—11° clavam formantibus, 9° 11° que dnter se sat equalibus vix transversis, 10° brevi fortiter ‘transverso ; oculis in fronte minus approximatis ; prothorace ‘sat equali (longitudine latitudini xquali), fere ut caput punctulato, lateribus a basi longe ultra medium leviter (dein sat fortiter sinuatim) convergentibus ; elytris leviter striatis, ‘striis fortiter sat crebre punctulatis; corpore subtus pedi- busque sat equaliter dense albido-pubescentibus; coxis ‘anticis inter se approximatis sed haud contiguis. Long., A} 1.; lat. 14.1. ‘The prevailing pubescence of the upper surface is of a pale testaceous brown colour; on this ground, white pubescence is distributed as follows,—dispersedly on the head and rostrum,— on the pronotum a line down the middle and an elongate patch on either side near the margins,—on the elytra a large humeral patch limited by an oblique line from the scutellum to the lateral margins at about a third of its length from the base, some small ‘spots along the suture and lateral margins, and a large somewhat arcuate patch near the apex; pubescence of very dark colour forms the lateral margins of the pronotum and is continued a short distance along the margins of the elytra, forms a large basal spot in the basal white patch, a very small spot on the third interstice slightly behind the middle (just in front of the hindmost white patch) and a larger spot on the third interstice _ mear the apex (within the arch of the hindmost white patch). The colour and distribution of the markings in this species are entirely different from those of the other described species of 157 Basitropis (at any rate of all the Australian ones, and all other known to me). In respect of other characters not likely to be sexual it differs from B. relicta, inter alia, by its somewhat larger and less cylindric shape, the feeble emargination of the front of its rostrum, the more elongate form of its prothorax which is distinctly (though not much) narrower across its middle. than across its base (in relicta that segment is if anything wider across its middle than its base), its evidently narrower rostrum, ‘and the more evident interval between its front cox. It is to. be noted, however, that in neither of the above species are the front cox separated by a continuous process of the prosternum. Port Darwin (N. Territory of 8. Australia). Taken by the late Dr. Bovill. STRENEODERMA (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum ; rostrum transversum supra sat planum, ad apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius,. scrobibus foveiformibus obtectis ; submentum planatum pro- funde triangulariter emarginatum; antenne graciles, arti- culis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustioribus (2° breviori), articulis 3°—8° gradatim brevioribus, 9°—11° clavam dis- tinctam formantibus, hac laxe articulata; oculi magni, fere integri, sat convexi, minus fortiter granulati; prothorax fortiter transversus, transversim fortiter convexus, carina. antebasali nulla, carina basali ad latera angulata et antror- sum ad latera media producta; scutellum parvum ; elytra sat brevia, striata, postice subverticalia ; coxe antics inter se latissime remote; pedes modici, anticis quam cetert longioribus; tarsorum anticorum articulus basalis quam ceteri conjuncti parum (posteriorum multo) brevior, 3° in 2° inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum: breve ; pygidium manifestum, subquadratum. According to M. Lacordaire’s classification the small insect for which I found this genus is a member of the “ Anthribides. vrais,” by virtue of the following characters in combination :— Antenne inserted on the sides of the rostrum, carina of pronotum basal, rostrum of subparallel form, body not elongate-cylindrie. In that group it is distinguishable by the following characters :— Front cox very widely separated (more widely than in Phleobius ), rostrum truncate at its extremity, antenne and legs extremely like those of Argocerus. The outline of the prothorax and elytra is not unlike that of Cewtorrhynchus. I am uncertain as to the sex of the examples before me. The front margin of the eye itself forms the hind wall of the scrobe. S. planatum, sp. nov. Piceum vix rufescens, antennis (clava excepta) et tarsorum apice testaceis; sat opacum ; sparsim 158 minus perspicue cinereo-pubescens; supra confertim sub- tilissime (haud multo aliter quam Areocerus fasciculatus, De Geer) subaspere punctulatum ; rostro cum capite con- tinuo; prothorace vage inequali; elytris striatis, in parte suturali conjunctim planatis; pedibus pube cinerea plus minusve perspicue maculatis ; antennis prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, clava quam articuli 4*%—8™ conjuncti vix brevioribus, articulis 9° vix (10° manifeste) transverso 11° obconico quam latiori parum longiori. Long., 121; lat,, £ 1. (vix). There are indications on the specimen before me of the whitish hair-like scales on the upper surface having been in places con- densed into somewhat conspicuous blotches which are chiefly about the middle of the front of the prothorax, on the scutellum and about the sides of the prothorax and elytra, especially near the shoulders, and it is possible some such markings may have been rubbed off, although the presence of the even thinly dis- tributed pubescence seems inconsistent with the surface being much abraded. A vague depression runs down the middle of the prothorax longitudinally, on either side of which slightly behind the middle is a distinct transverse gibbosity. The fourth interstice of each elytron is more conspicuous than the other interstices, chiefly through the space between the fourth interstices of the two elytra (including the suture) being flat- tened. Most of the interstices are furnished in some part of their length with unequal feebly raised tubercles. The head and rostrum together form a perfectly even flattened surface without any trace of distinction infer se. The insect has much of the structure of Aregocerus but with the rostrum and scrobes of a true Anthribid. Victoria. S. contemptum, sp. nov. Fere ut precedens (S. planatum) coloratum et pubescens sed pedibus dilutioribus et elytris ad apicem rufis; rostro cum capite continuo; prothorace eequali, lateribus mox ante basin manifeste sinuatis, angulis posticis extrorsum manifeste acutis; elytris equaliter con- vexis, interstitiis vix perspicue tuberculatis; antennis pro- thoraeis basin attingentibus, clava quam articuli 3°—8* con- juncti vix breviori, articulis 9°—11° elongatis (10° quam 9° et 11 manifeste breviorl. Long., 111; lat., 1. (vix). This species closely resembles the preceding in general appear- ance, but is certainly distinct. The pronotum is devoid of inequalities and the elytra have no longitudinal flattening on the sutural region, their interstices also being all but devoid of ineequalities. The sides of the prothorax are quite strongly incurved just in front of the base, and the hind angles of that 159 segment are very distinctly pointed outward, neither of which characters is found in S. planatum. The antenne are consider- ably longer in S. contemptum than in 8S. planatum, their club especially, of which all the joints are at least twice as long as wide. It is not improbable that these antennal differences may indicate that my example of contemptum is a male, and that of planatum a female, but they are certainly not the sexes of one species. There is scarcely any indication of the pubescence being condensed in patches on the example before me, but I do not attach much importance to this character, as I find that the condensed long scales on the small Anthribide are very easily rubbed off, and therefore very unreliable for identification of Species. N. Queensland ; given to me by Mr. Koebele. NoTa@cia (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Mas. Rostrum transversum, depressum, ad apicem arcuatim emarginatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, scrobi- bus lateralibus foveiformibus apertis; antenna quam corporis dimidium sublongiores, graciles, clava minus laxe 3-articulatis, articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustiori- bus (2° longiori), 3° 4° que inter se sat zequalibus, 5°—8° quam 4°° sat brevioribus, 9° obconico 8° longitudine quali, 10° brevi transverso, 11° quam 9" vix longiori ; oculi magni, sat subtiliter granulati, antice sat profunde emarginati, supra inter se approximati ; prothorax transversus equalis, carina antebasali nulla, carina basali ad latera angulata et antrorsum ultra prothoracis medium producta; scutellum parvum; elytra subcylindrica brevia (quam conjunctim latiora circiter ut 10 ad 7 longiora), ad basin leviter gibbosa, striata, postice verticalia ; coxz antice subcontigue ; pedes modici ; tarsi antici quam tibiz haud breviores, articulo basali quam ceterl conjuncti sublongiori; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens. The insect for which I propose this generic name falls into M. ‘Lacoradire’s group “ Anthribides vrais” by virtue of the follow- ing characters :—Antenne inserted on the sides of the rostrum, -earina of pronotum basal, rostrum parallel-sided, body not elon- gate. The genus, however, can hardly be placed in M. Lacordaire’s tabulation of the genera of that group as its two main divisions are “front coxe widely separated, rostrum strongly emarginate in front,” and ‘front coxe subcontiguous, rostrum not or scarcely emarginate in front,” whereas in this genus the front coxe are subcontiguous and the rostrum is quite strongly emarginate in front. Its most striking characters are found in its very large eyes, strongly emarginate in front, and 160 separated from each other on the forehead by a space only about one-third of the width of the rostrum, and its open scrobes which cut the upper surface of the rostrum sufficiently to be both visible wheu viewed from above. This form of scrobes is an approach to their form in the Arcocerides, in which, however, both scrobes are entirely visible when viewed from above, and the interval between them is less than the interval between the eyes, whereas in this genus (and others with the scrobes visible and lateral) the interval between them is greater than that between the eyes and only a small part of both scrobes can be seen together. NV. reticulata, sp. nov. Piceo-rufa, pube albida variegata; hac in rostro vage, in capite medio longitudinaliter (et cirea oculos) lineatim, in prothorace vage, in scutello confertim, in elytris reticulatim et maculatim, in pygidio ita ut annulos 2 format, in sternis abdominis lateribus pedibusque (in his interrupte) sat dense, disposita; antennarum clava et pedum nonnullis partibus obscuris ; corpore toto (pube haud. abrasa) confertim subtilissime subaspere punctulato; pro- thorace fortiter transverso, antice minus fortiter angustato, lateribus parum arcuatis ; elytris indistincte (latera versus. magis perspicue) striatis, striis vix perspicue punctulatis. Long., 12 1.; lat., 551. On this pretty little species fine dense red-brown very short pubescence covers the upper surface so closely that there is little apparent sculpture; but, no doubt, if the pubescence were re- moved underlying sculpture would appear. On the red-brown derm-pubescence there is variegation formed by longer pubescence of ashy-white colour. This longer pubescence is vaguely scattered over the rostrum and pronotum and densely clothes the small scutellum; on the head it forms fine lines and on the elytra it runs in fine sinous longitudinal lines, which are here and there transversely connected,—some of the transverse connections (especially between the third and fourth longitudinal lines) being dilated into conspicuous blotches. The derm-pubescence is more red than brown on the head and becomes gradually less red and more brown hindward. The inequalities of the elytral surface (which are likely to be a generic character) are feebly defined, and best observed by looking at the insect from the side when there is seen to be feeble gibbosity near the base with irregular depression behind the gibbosity, then a scarcely elevated longi- tudinal ridge on the third interstice slightly behind its middle and a still slighter elevation a little nearer the base on the subsutural interstice while between the ridge on the third interstice and the lateral margin the surface is scarcely visibly depressed. N. Queensland ; sent to me by the late Mr. Cowley. 161 MISTHOSIMA. The species described below may be referred I think to this genus which was founded by Mr. Pascoe to include two insects from Borneo. It agrees very well with the characters attributed to the genus by its author and if not a true congener of the already described species must represent a closely allied new genus distinguishable by characters not mentioned in the diag- nosis. The only discrepancies are slight, consisting in the second antennal joint being scarcely shorter than the basal one and the metasternum not quite so short as in Argocerus (as, according to description, it should be) but these alone scarcely justify the formation of a new genus. M. dorsonotata, sp. nov. Oblonga; picea, antennarum basi labro 'femoribus tiblisque testaceis ; pube densa fusca vestita, hac pube cinerea concinne maculatim variegata ; antennarum articulo 2° quam 1” vix breviori; supra confertim aspere subtiliter (in elytris quam alibi paullo minus subtiliter) punctulata ; elytris subtilissime striatis; pube in corpore subtus quam in corpore supra magis cinerea. Long., 12 1.; lat., 2 1. The ashy or whitish pubescence of the upper surface is dis- tributed as follows :—On the head it predominates (the fuscous colour forming two longitudinal lines dilated in front and behind); on the prothorax it is most conspicuous on the sides and middle line ; on the elytra it forms numerous small clearly defined evenly distributed spots, three somewhat larger placed transversely across the base, and a common much larger triangular patch (its apex pointing forward) about the middle of the suture. North Queensland. DOTICUS. This genus is unsatisfactorily close to Arg@ocerus. Its author (Mr. Pascoe) says that it differs from Argocerus by the greater length of its front legs, the greater width of its tarsi and the deeper insertion of the third tarsal joint in thesecond. To this it may be added that (so far as my experience goes) the species with the legs of Doticus are considerably larger than any with the legs of Argocerus. Nevertheless I am of opinion that the generic distinction of the two cannot be maintained. I have before me a specimen which is certainly I think D. palmaris, Pasc. Metadoticus, Olliff, seems to be quite indistinguishable from Doticus. The name used by Olliff seems to have been suggested by the author of Dotzcus, and yet there is nothing in his diagnosis. to distinguish it from that of Doticws, nor does he mention Doticus, but compares Metadoticus to Ethneca, with which Doticus has so little connection that it would be hard to find two. L 1€2 Anthribide much less allied to each other than they are. Olliff’s species (the too common Metadoticus pestilens) is quite unmistak- able and the insect generally called by that name agrees so per- fectly with Olliff’s somewhat full specific description that it seems impossible we can be mistaken in our identification of M. pestilens. I can find no generic distinction between J. pestilens and the insect mentioned above as D. palmaris. D. equalipennis, sp. nov. Late ovalis; piceus, pube brunnea maculatim vestitus; supra confertim subtilissime subaspere punctulatus ; prothorace minus fortiter transverso, antror- sum a basi arcuatim fortiter angustato, equali; elytris eequalibus, striatis, striis sat fortiter nec crebre punctulatis, interstitiis planis. Long., 34 1.; lat., 121. The head is entirely covered with bright brown pubescence except a longitudinal vitta of dark brown pubescence on either side of the middle ; the pronotum is confusedly variegated with bright brown pubescence on the piceous derm; on the elytra the piceous derm is variegated by bright brown pubescence arranged longitudinally on the interstices, the pubescence being continuous (on the specimen before me, which is evidently not at all abraded) on the front one fifth part of most of the inner seven interstices and nearly so. on about the hinder half of the inner five inter- stices, but on the rest of the interstitial surface it takes the form of small square spots; where the pubescence is not of bright brown colour it is scarcely less dense, but is of the colour of the derm; that of the under surface is uniformly of a pale ashy colour. This species seems to agree absolutely with D. palmaris, Pasc., and MZ. pestilens, Oll., in its structural charac- . ters. It is very distinct from both, as a species, owing to the even surface of its pronotum and elytra. Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. G. Masters as No. 77. ARAOCERUS. This genus is somewhat numerously represented in Australia, although no species of it have yet been recorded in Australia in such fashion as to be capable of confident identification. In 1835 Boisduval published a diagnosis consisting of nine words of Anthribus sambucinus, which he thought might be a variety of Anthribus coffee, Fab., and the latter (according to Lacordaire) 4s identical with Ara@ocerus fasciculatus, De Geer. Doubtless therefore A. sambucinus is an Are@ocerus and it now stands in our Catalogues as a variety of A. fasciculatus. I have not access to De Geer’s description of A. fasciculatus, but I know the insect as a Hawaiian Arcocerus that the eminent Coleop- terist Dr. Sharp named for me. I have examples from tropical Queensland of an Areocerus that I cannot separate 163 ‘from fasciculatus, but I do not think it likely to be sambucinus, Boisd., as the habitat of the latter is presumably the neigh- bourhood of Sydney, where I have taken an Areocerus perfectly -distinct from (though closely resembling superficially) fasciculatus, -and which I have little doubt is the true sambucinus. The species of this genus are very difficult to deal with on -account of their pubescence being extremely easily rubbed off, —so that it is necessary to rely almost entirely on structural characters for identification and the descriptions of markings can be but little trusted for identifying any but very fresh specimens,—and also from the absence (alluded to by M. Lacor- -daire) of any readily available character for determining the sex of a specimen. In studying a considerable number of examples of Argocerus from widely separated parts of Aus- ‘tralia I find, owing to the difficulties mentioned, a certain number of forms which I believe to represent additional ‘species, but which I hesitate to treat as certainly distinct, and in the following pages I have limited myself to the well-marked “Species. The characters of some of the Ar@oceri described helow do not altogether agree with Lacordaire’s diagnosis of the genus, but I am satisfied that the characters in question are not truly generic. The following tabulation will assist in the determination of ‘the Argoceri known to me as Australian. _A. Each elytron having a well developed basal crest bicristatus, Blackb. AA. Elytia even at the base,—or nearly so. B. Ninth joint of antennz not or scarcely longer than tenth. C. Legs dark.. oe Aé¢ Hod ... Koebelei, Blackb. CC. Legs of pale colour... fasciculatus, DeG. BB. Ninth joint of antenne notably longer than tenth. C. Antennz long enough to reach the base of the prothorax. D. Antennal club moderately robust (about as much so as in D pestilens, Olliff) ... sambucinus, Boisd. DD. Antennal club notably more slender ... dindensis, Blackb. CC. Antenne not long enough to reach base of prothorax... i. a As ... asperulus, Blackb. A, bicrisiatus, sp. nov. Ovalis, minus latus; sat convexus ; picea, pube lete brunnea dense vestita, hac pube cinerea et nigricanti variegata (hac in pronoto ad latera et medium et in elytris maculatim, illa in elytris sparsissime maculatim, dispositis) ; antennis prothoracis basin attingentibus, tes- taceis, clava fusca, articulo 9° quam 10" vix longiori; pro- thorace minus fortiter transverso, antice fortiter angustato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi bisinuata, supra crebre aspere punctulato, angulis posticis acutis ; elytris crebre aspere 164 (quam pronotum vix magis subtiliter) punctulatis, striatis- striis puncturis sat magnis leviter impressis, interstitiis- tuberculis seriatim instructis, his vix elevatis nisi in inter- stitio 3° in quo tuberculus anticus cristam. longitudinalem bene elevatam format (fere ut Dotici pestilentis Olliff sed minus elevatam) ; femoribus ad apicem haud ut dens pro-- ductis ; tarsis sat fortiter (fere ut A. fasciculati, De Geer) elongatis. Maris tibiis anticis intus ciliatis; tarsis anticis quam femine multo robustioribus, et setulis elongatis vestitis. Long., 1—12 1; lat., 2—2 1. Readily distinguishable among the Australian Ara@oceri by the crest-like tubercle near the base of the third interstice of its elytra. In a fresh specimen the alternate elytral interstices bear a number of rather conspicuous little tubercles covered with pubescence (on some of the tubercles darker, on others lighter, than that of the general surface) which is a little longer than of the general surface, while the basal margin of the elytra is. entirely and narrowly bordered with red-brown pubescence. In abraded specimens the interstitial tubercles are much less con- spicuous. Compared with Doticus palmaris, Pasc., and pestilens, Olliff, the present species is, anter alia, very much smaller and narrower. Queensland ; given to me by Mr. Koebele. A. Koebelei, sp. nov. Sat late ovalis; sat convexus ; nigricans, prothorace antice et postice et pedibus plus minusve rufes- centibus, antennis (clava excepta) rufis; pube albo- vel rufo-cinerea in pronoti parte anteriori et in elytrorum parti- bus scutellari humeralique et interstitiis alternis maculatim vestitus ; antennis prothoracis basin attingentibus, articulo 9° quam 10" vix longiori; prothorace fere ut A. bicristate sed magis transverso; elytris fere ut A. bicristati, sed. interstitio 3° basin versus haud gibboso; femoribus ut A. bicristate ; tarsis quam A. bicristatz magis robustis, minus. elongatis. Long., 1$—21.; lat. 2—11. Maris tibiis anticis leviter sinuatis, intus ciliatis et subtiliter crenulatis ; tarsis anticis breviter pilosis et leviter dilatatis.. Readily distinguishable from its Australian congeners known to me by its almost black colour, and its dark legs. It is a much broader and more robust species than J. bicristatus. In a fresh specimen the whitish pubescent spots stand out very conspicuously on the blackish general surface. They form a slight mottling on the head, and front and base of the pronotum, an elongate patch including the scutellum, a patch (of somewhat reddish tone) on each shoulder, and a number of sma) spots on the alternate inter- 165 stices of the elytra. I have two examples sent to me by Mr. Masters which may possibly represent a closely allied distinct species, as they.are of even broader and more robust form than the type, with the pale spots on the elytra evidently (though only slightly) raised, but their colours and markings agree so exactly with those of the type that Iam disposed to think them merely fine and highly developed examples of the one species. Queensland; given to me by Mr. Koebele. A. lindensis, sp. nov. Mas. Brevis; latus ; sat convexus ; rufo- brunneus, sternis et antennarum clava piceis ; pube cinerea in partibus vestitus sicut partes haud pubescentes ut notulee obscure apparent (harum presertim manifesta est in elytris notula magna basalis subsuturalis,—in exemplis nonnullis cum alterius elytri notula conjuncta); antennis prothoracis ‘basin vix attingentibus, articulo 9° quam 10" sesquilongiori, clava sat gracili; prothorace sat transverso, confertim sub- tilius granulato - punctulato, antice angustato, lateribus modice arcuatis, angulis posticis (Superne visis) sat rectis ; elytris striato - punctulatis, interstitiis confertim aspere punctulatis ; femoribus subtus (anticorum parte media acute trispinosa) mox ante apicem profunde emarginato, apice ipso deorsum (ut dens parvus) acuto; tibiis anticis intus subtiliter manifeste crenulatis ; tarsorum anticorum articulo basali sat breve setulis elongatis vestito ; coxis anticis inter se anguste separatis. Long., 1—141.; lat., }—2 1. This species is at once separable from the preceding two (bicristatus and Koebeler) and from fasciculatus, De G., by the peculiar structure of the front femora of its male. The markings (resulting from the presence of spaces on which the ashy pube- scence is wanting) form a vague mottling on the prothorax and elytra, of which the most conspicuous feature is a rather large basal elytral spot close to the scutellum on either side (the two spots united in some examples). This basal elytral spot appears very dark and well defined when the insect is looked at obliquely from in front, but is much less noticeable when looked at from behind. The other parts of the elytra devoid of ashy pubescence appear as small spots running into indistinct oblique fasciee,—in some examples their fascia-like disposition scarcely discernible. Although I have taken about seven specimens of this insect, they are all males. S. Australia (Hyre’s Peninsula). A. sambucinus, Boisd. Preecedenti (A. lindensi) affinis ; minus brevis; antennarum clava magis robusta; elytris ad basin haud vel vix perspicue plaga obscura notatis; tarsorum anticorum articulo basali sat majori. 166 Maris femoribus tibiisque anticis fere ut A. lindensis, sed’ spinis (in illius parte media subtus positis) multo brevioribus- vel granuli formibus; tarsorum anticorum articulo basali paullo magis robusto et setulis elongatis vestito. Femine femoribus anticis ad apicem vix deorsum productis, tibiis intus haud crenulatis, tarsis haud setulis elongatis. vestitis. Long., 14—121.; lat. 1 Distinctly larger than A. lindensis and without (or almost without) any indication of the dark blotches at the base of the elytra. Differs from the male of lindensis (and no doubt from the female also) by the much less slender club of its antenne and the notably larger basal joint of its front tarsi. The male differs from the male of A. lindensis by the sexual ante-apical: emargination and apical tooth of its femora being present only in the front pair and by the very much feebler inequalities on the middle part of the undersurface of its front femora. Differs. from fasciculatus, De G. inter alia by its sexual characters. Widely distributed in Southern Australia. A. asperulus, sp. nov. Ovalis; minus latus; sat convexus ;. piceus, pronoto antice elytris tibiisque dilutioribus, antennis (clava excepta) rufis; pube cinerea sparsim (exemplorum visorum haud maculatim) vestitus; antennis prothoracem medium parum superantibus, articulo 9° quam 10" sesqui- longiori; prothorace sat fortiter transverso, ante basin anguste transversim depresso, in ceteris partibus equali- nullo modo canaliculato, confertim minus subtiliter aspere punctulato, angulis posticis extrorsum manifeste prominulis ;. elytris striatis, striis cancellato-punctulatis, interstitiis aspere subfortiter crebre punctulatis ; femoribus mox ante apicem subtus profunde emarginato, apice ipso deorsum (ut dens parvus) acuto; tarsis quam A. fasciculati, De Geer, sat brevioribus sat robustioribus; coxis anticis inter se sat late separatis. Long., 14 1.; lat., 55 1. (vix.). I am not sure that a new genus ought not to be formed for this insect on account of its short antenne, comparatively widely separated front coxe, and curiously shaped femora, but as in the preceding two species the first of the above characters is approached and the last is even exaggerated, I think they may be regarded as a gradual divergence from the typical characters. of Arcocerus rather than the indication of a really distinct genus. The present species owing to its elongate oval form and pubescence not condensed into spots (I do not think the two. specimens before me are abraded) has scarcely the facies of Areocerus, but the preceding two species (which are undoubtedly allied to it) have quite the facies of Argocerus. The insertion of 167 the antenne is altogether as in a typical Arwocerus in being slightly nearer to the middle line of the head and rostrum than is the inner margin of the eye. The specimens before me are females. Their antennal club is short and moderately stout. S. Australia ; Eyre’s Peninsula. ARHOCERODES (gen. nov. Anthribidarum). Caput transversum ; rostrum transversum, supra sat planum, ad apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud angustius, scrobibus ut Argoceri ; antenne prothoracis basin paullo superantes, sat graciles, articulis basalibus 2 quam ceteri robustioribus (2° longiori), 8° ad apicem leviter dilatato, 9°—11°clavam elongatam laxe articulatam formantibus; oculi oblongo-ovales haud (vel vix) emarginati, grossissime granu- lati ; prothorax transversus, equalis, antice modice angus- tatus, carina antebasali nulla; carina basalis ad latera angulata et antrorsum brevissime producta; scutellum angustum ; elytra convexa, equalia, striata, striis fortiter nec crebre punctulatis ; coxe antice sat contigue ; pedes modici, anticis quam ceteri longioribus; tarsi modici, articulo 3° in 2° profunde inserto ; unguiculi subtus dentati. Structurally near to Argocerus, but of evidently more cylindric form and with narrow, elongate, very coarsely granulated eyes. The species is the smallest Anthribid that I have seen. A. lilliputanus, sp. nov. Pallide testaceus, antennarum clava obscura ; pube albido-testacea vestitus, hac in elytris trifa- sciatim disposita ; capite prothoraceque confertim subfortiter _ granulatis; prothoracis angulis posticis | Reupounic visis) re- trorsum acutis. lLong., 2 i: (vix); lat., 33, 1. The characters not mentioned in the above specific description are fully stated in the generic diagnosis and need not be re- peated. Its excessively minute size will at once distinguish this insect from all the previously described Australian Anthribide. N. Queensland ; sent to me by the late Mr. Cowley. PHYTOPHAGA. CLEPTOR. I have before me examples of both species of this genus, named by Mr. Jacoby and agreeing so well with Lefévre’s descriptions that I can feel no doubt of their identity. But I think the genus is not rightly placed next to Hdusa as it seems to me very much closer to Colaspoides, of which it entirely reproduces the prosternal characters. M. Lefévre indeed characterises the Edusite inter alia by the phrase “ prosternum oblongum” and yet places Cleptor in that group in spite of his diagnosis of its 168 prosternum as being “‘latius quam longum.” I can really find no very marked character to distinguish Cleptor from Colaspoides except in its eyes being almost without sinuation. M. Lacordaire distinguished the “ Hdusites” from the “ Endocephalites” (con- taining Colaspoides) by the presence in the former of transverse elytral rugosities, but this distinction is not reliable. M. Lefévre mentions the rugosities as only “generally” present in the former group, M. Lacordaire himself admits that in some Hdusites ‘elles peuvent passer inappercues,” and I possess species of Colaspoides in which they are not quite wanting. The groups then (as characterised by M. Lacordaire) cannot be maintained ; nor does M. Lefevre, though accepting the groups, suggest any better distinction. Whether it would be practicable and desir- able to regard Hdusa and Colaspoides as the typical genera of two groups (which would have very different contents from those mentioned above) distinguished from each other by the form of the prosternum I must leave to the decision of authors better | equipped than I am for studying a large cosmopolitan collection of Humolpides, but however the genera should be grouped I am convinced that Cleptor ought to stand close to Colaspoides. Along with the examples of Cleptor mentioned above Mr. Jacoby sent me a specimen as Colaspoides xanthopus, Har., which appears to be correctly named, but is certainly, I think, a Cleptor. It is identical with a specimen I received from the Chapuis’ collection ticketed ‘“‘ Neotaxis fulgida.” I cannot find that Dr. Chapuis ever published such a genus and species. Possibly the genus Cleptor was published at such time as to forestal Weotaxis,—but at any rate it indicates that Dr. Chapuis did not place Harold’s insect in Colaspoides. The following is a new species of Cleptor. C. Haroldi, sp. nov. Glaber, supra cyanescens viridi-micans, subtus niger (certo adspectu aureo-vel cupreo micans), anten- nis ferrugineis apicem versus obscurioribus, pedibus piceis plus minusve rufescentibus ; pronoto crebre subtilius punc- tulato, puncturis singulis oblongis ; scutello levi; elytris in disco medio crebre fortiter (in ceteris partibus minus crebre minus fortiter) vix seriatim punctulatis, pone basin vix manifeste impressis, pone humeros certo adspectu transver- sim leviter rugatis. Long., 241; lat., 12 1. Compared with C. rufimanus, Lef., the pronotum is considerably more closely punctulate, with the lateral puncturation much more evidently offering a longitudinally rugate appearance, while the puncturation of the elytra is much finer near the lateral margins ; the form also is notably less convex. Compared with C. inernus, Lef., and xanthopus, Har., inter alia multa there is scarcely any indication of a transverse impression near the base of the elytra. N. Queensland. 169 NEOCLES. WV. innocuus, sp. nov. Minus elongatus; piceus plus miuusve metallico-micans, capite antennis palpis femoribus tibiis tarsisque rufis; pube aureo-brunnea (hac nonnihil macu- latim disposita) vestitus; capite sat profunde ruguloso ; prothorace quam longiori vix latiori, antrorsum leviter angustato (nihilominus, superne viso, fortiter angustatus apparet), antice valde producto, fortiter granulo so-ruguloso, longitudinaliter leviter late sulcato, lateribus minus arcuatis, angulis anticis sat rectis posticis obtusis ; elytris subseriatim confertim punctulatis et granulatis, nullo modo costatis. Biong., 3+ 1; lat., 12 1. This genus is remarkable among the Humolpides by the presence of prosternal channels for the reception of the antenne, and by a facies very unlike that of a typical Humolpid. Only -one species has been described hitherto—WN. suwlcicollis, Chp., of which I possess the type. Owing to the front margin of the pronotum being very strongly produced forward in the middle the prothorax appears (when viewed from above) to be very much more narrowed in front than it really is, and owing to the extero-anterior angles of the prosternum being strongly pro- duced the pronotum (viewed in a somewhat oblique direction which discloses the prosternal angles) appears to have spiniform front angles. The present species differs from WV. sulcicollis by, inter alia, its non-costate elytra, and the sides of its prothorax (though slightly serrate, yet) without a defined median angular projection. N.S. Wales; Tweed R. district. CASSIDIDE. CASSIDA. C. profunde-striata, Spaeth. The description of this insect (Verh. Ges. Wien., 1899, p. 216) reads as if it might well be founded on a specimen of ©. mera, Germ., which varies from the type in having its elytra more or less spotted with black. I have taken in company specimens with and without dark spots. Herr Spaeth does not mention C’. mera, to which his insect is at any rate extremely close. 170 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE Noval Society of South Australia For 1899-1900. a a OrDINARY Mzsrtinc, NovemBer 7, 1899. W. L. Crezanp, M.B. (President) in the chair. Exuisits.—J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. exhibited a ferruginous: sandstone of peculiar form, and some calcareous travertine, the latter showing remarkable weathering; both specimens from the Lake Eyre distict. Mr. S. Drxon some specimens. from Mount Morgan mine, and described the conditions under which they were found. Also he gave a description of the labour-saving machinery by which 20,000 tons of sre were treated on the mine per month, and referred to the liberal and enlightened policy pursued by the directors vy which they were enabled to attract the best available talent to their service. He also showed some rich tin ore speci- mens from North Queensland, and a water bag made by the natives of Queensland from the bark of a tree not identified. Mr. Tepper drew attention to botanical experiments by Von Herzule in 1875, and by W. H. Preuss more recently, which tended to prove that plants must manufacture their own mineral matter. Paprer.—‘Notes on the Cliffs Separating Aldinga and Myponga Bays,’ by Epwarp VINCENT CiaRK, B.Sc. OrpinaRy Meretine, DecEMBER 5, 1899. W. L. Cretanp, M.B. (President) in the chair. Exuisits.—J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., exhibited a beryl lying in a matrix of quartz from near Williamstown. A piece of chalcedony with dentritic markings. and a small spherical body of low specific gravity and well defined marking which was picked up near the sea at Bunbury, W.A. A. Purpiz, M.A., showed specimens of fossiliferous cal- Lyell careous rock from the vicinity of Cape Jervis from a raised. beach above the Till, and mentioned that Second Valley was well worthy a visit, being evidently grooved out of the glacial till, and exhibiting many travelled boulders. Papers.—‘Descriptions of new Micro-lepidoptera,’ by Dr. JerFerRIs Turner. ‘A Refutation of the Doctrine of Homotaxis,’ by Pror. Ratpu Tats, F.G.S. (Withdrawn.) OrpINARY Mbrxntine, Aprin 3, 1900. W. L. Crezanp, M.B. (President) in the chair. | Exuipits.—Mr. Guirtins showed the fruit of a Japanese: climbing plant which Mr. J. G. O. Tepper subsequently dis- covered was that of Akebia quinata, belonging to the order Berberidex, and a native of China and Japan. Mr. TEPPER. exhibited some galls from the wattle, Acacia pycnantha, describing the insect which produced them. He also showed a case of mosquitoes, Anopheles, which had been collected by order of the Government to forward to London for the School of Tropical Medicine to examine malarial germs, &c., and made some interesting remarks on this troublesome insect. Paprrers.—‘A Collection of Birds’ Skins from Kalgoorlie, W.A.,” by Ropert Hatt. “Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, &c.,” by Rev. THomas Biacksurn, B.A. OrpinaRy Mzetine, May 1, 1900. W. L. Cienanp, M.B. (President) in the chair. _ Exuipits.—PRreEsIpDENT, referring to minutes of last meat- ing, stated that it had been noticed that in two districts, widely separated—one in Africa, the other in Indo-China—- mosquitoes did not exist, and malarial fever was there un- known. W. Howcuntn, F.G.S., exhibited graphic granite and felspar from Winulta Creek, and from near Corny Point, Yorke Peninsula, and showed some felspar which the natives had endeavoured to shape for their weapons, but had found very difficult to point owing to the cleavage and hackly fracture of it. He also exhibited specimens of the: matrix in which diamonds were found from the De Beer's mine, South Africa. Royal Society’s Library, which, it may be mentioned, is now being catalogued. Membership.—There has not been so large an acquisition of new members during the year as might be wished. Your Committee hope that members will endeavcur to induce their friends to join the Section, and so help to counter- 202 balance the loss that is always to be expected. The number now on the rell is 90. Financial—The receipts from subscriptions (£17) have considerably exceeded the disbursements (£8/9). Only £10 has been received in the way of grant from the Royal Society. Epwin Assy, Chairman. . W. H. Setwav, Hon. Sec. Adelaide, Sept. 17, 1900. TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIVE FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION COMMITTEE OF THE FIELD NATURALISTS’ SEC11ON OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO BE PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 18rH SEPTEMBER, 1900. The Committee have met at intervals in the past year. Regarding the Forest Reserves, the Committee received, in October last, a letter from the Commissioner of Crown Lands informing them “that all land recommended by the Con- servator of Forests to be retained for forest culture is so retained, and wherever suitable land is available it will be set apart for the purpose.’ Information was however, re- cently received from Wirrabara that a perpetual lease of 277 acres in the forest had been granted to one man, and at the request of the Secretary, Mr. John Darling, M.P., asked in Parliament some questions of the Commissioner on the subject, receiving the reply that all Forest Reserves were preserved that were worth preserving. The Birds’ Protection Bill referred to in our last report, having lapsed, has been this year re-introduced by Mr. Play- ford. but in a different form. The Committee were disposed to join the Bird Protection Society in asking that the Bill should be withdrawn, as many important provisions contained in their own Bill, upon which this one had been founded, were omitted from it. Two of the members waited upon Mr. Playford with this end in view, but, after discussing the question with him, thought it would be better to allow the Bill to go on, and endeavour later to get introduced some amendments to meet their cwn views. So little progress has, however, been made that there seems little probabilitv of the Bill being passed this session. Epwin AsHpy, Chairman. M. Symonps Criark, ton. Secretary. Adelaide, September 18, 1900. ‘Q06T ‘r9quiagdag YaLT ‘oprepapy ‘zoinseaiy, pure Areqor00g “uozy ( ‘dAOTT 'S ‘£ ‘AVAVIS “HM EN THAIS ON maa @ ‘4001100 punoy put pojIpny oes Iss G € I&F Ceri” 2. ee ‘* pury Ul s0uR[eg ,, O-0- it Ayo100g [efoy 03 papaemsoy suotyydisosqne ,, 06 8 om! Ce x a gs CoURP ESI Bye O20 20h = as * Agatoog jehoy woz query ,, 9 3 ae solapung pue seseysog ,, |g OQ LT oo ADS “* suorqdizosqng ,, Oss. oe oF oe sanug 4g !e ¢ -, eg “* paemdoy 4YysnoIq sour EY OF, ‘ps = ‘SLNAWASUAASIG, ‘Dp 8S F "SLAIGONY a0) “aq ‘0061-6681 HVAX AHL OA SINAWASUAESICQ] GNV SLaIMONY ‘VITVALSNVY HLAOS dO ALHIOOS IVAOU UHL JO NOILOMS SLSTIVYOLYN GTEIa 204 ASTRONOMICAL SECTION OF THE Roval Society of South Australia. KIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. The Committee have to report that the Section has held six -ordinary meetings during the past year, and subjects of interest have been discussed, such as meteors, sun spots, &. Some of our members kept watch for the Leonid showers in November last. Mr. Russel gave a popular lecture, entitled ‘““An Astro- nomical Evening,” illustrated by lantern views, at the Society’s room, to a good attendance. In June the President, Sir Charles Todd, gave an interesting paper on ‘“‘ The Sun and its Eclipses,” illustrated by elaborately prepared diagrams, which he repeated (by request) for the benefit of the general public a few weeks later at the Royal Society’s Room, at which there was also a large _attendance. | The Committee have met six times for business. The Section now has three English magazines, which treat of astronomical subjects, and members can obtain them for perusal on applica- tion to Mr. Hurst, office of the Postmaster-General, Adelaide. The ‘Astronomical Notes”—published monthly sinec July, 1892, and consequently now in their ninth year—have appeared with consistent regularity during the past year, and, as formerly, ‘have proved of a highly satisfactory nature. ~The question box is still open to enquirers. -Adopted at the annual meeting of the Section, held at the _Adelaide Observatory on the evening of Tuesday, September 11, 1900. | C. Topp, President. W. E. CHeesman, Hon. 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Anacheirotus inornatus, 39. .-Anoplognathus concinnus, 40. Anthribide, tabulation of Genera of, 141. Aecerodes lilliputans, 167. -Areocerus asperulus, 166; bicristatus, 163 ; Koebeli, 164; Jindensis, 165; sambucinus, 165. -Ardiosteres Scoteina, 18. -Ashby, Edwin, Definitions of two new species of Polyplacophora, 86. Aulicus amabilis, 133; crosus, 127 ;cribatus, 134; delicatulus, 132; dives, 128; eremita, 133 ; instabilis, 129; modestus, 135; mun- dus, 131; nigro-hirtus, 129; robustus, 131 ; tabulation of species of, 125. Australian Aborigines, features producing uniformity of type among, 176. Baris orchivora, 61. Basitropis pallida, 156; relicta, 154. ‘Bird-skins from Kalgoorlie, W.A., 24. ‘Blackburn, Rev. T., Further Notes on Aus- tralian Coleoptera,, XXVI., 35; XXVIL., 113: ‘Bruchis diversipes, 63 ; fabs, 64; lyndhursten- sis, 62; Oodnadatia, 63; persimulans, 64 ; pisi, 64; quornensis, 63. -Cacephatus sericeus, 151. -Cadulus spretus, 102. ‘Callirrhipis ruficornis, 50. Callithauma basilica, 15. -Callochiton rufus, 87. Calochromus cucullatus, 56, rostratus, 58; simillimus, 56. -Cantharus Kingicola, 91. ‘Carditella delta, 192; pectinata, 103. ‘Cassida profunde-striata, 169. ‘Cephalodesmius armiger, 37 ; minor, 36. -Chaleopterus Kochi, 59. -Chione Hallii, Kergueleni, permagna, 107. Chiton oruktus, 89. -Chrosis angusticollis, 114. ‘Chryoryctis ochroxantha, 19. : Clark, E. V., Geological Notes on Aldings and Myponga Bays, 1. Cleland, Dr. W. L., Presidential Address, 176. ‘Cleptor Haroldi, 168. Cleridz, tabulation of Australian genera, 117. Cleromorpha, 122. . ‘Clerus delicatatus, 132; Notes on species of, 121. -Clivina Adelaide, Evrensis, obliquata, 35. ‘Coleoptera, Australian, new genera and species of, 35; 113. ; Cryptophaga bateata, opalina, 7. Cyamium mactroides, 102. Cyclostrema porcellana, 101. Cylothorax cordicollis, peryphoides, 36. Cyperus castaneus, 84. Dennant, J., List of Eocene Corals from Mul- gundawa, S.A., 111. Donations to the Library, 186. Donovania fenestrata, 94. Doticus equalipennis, 162. Eburiphora patricius, 138. Edusa angustula, 66. Enaemia dives, mizxoleuca, 14. Ennometes ruficornis, 50. Entromus dorsoplagiatus, 146. Eocene beds at Aldinga and Myponga Bays, 1; at Mulgundawa, 109. Epargemus marmoratus, 147. Enspondus bigibbosus, 149. Eschatura lemurias, 11. Eucorynus Mastersi, 144. Eulima inflata, 95; Mayti, 96; Tryoni, 96. Evaniocera persimilis, 60; perthensis, 61. Fossiliferous rocks at Kerguelin Island, 104. Fossils, Eocene, list of at Mulgundawa, S.A., illite Gari (?) sp., 105. Geological Notes on Aldinga and Myponga Bays, 1; on Kerguelin Island, 104; Mul- gundawa-bore, 109. Glaciation in Southern Yorke-Peninsula, 71. Goyder, G. A., Description of a new mineral (Sulvanite) ; 69. Gracilaria albicincta, 20; leptalea, 21; ophiodes, 20; polyplaca, 20; tristaniz, 20. Hall, Robert, Notes on Bird-skins from Kal- goorlie, 24; on the Geology of Kerguelin Island, 104. Heteronyx grandis, 113 ; unicus, 38. Howchin, W., Evidences of Glaciation in Southern Yorke-Peninsula, 71. Hydnocera, 139. Hypocilibe veternosa, 140. Ischnochiton pallens, 86. Kalgoorlie, Bird-skins from, 24. Kerguelin Island, marine fossiliferous rocks at, 104. Koch Max, Supplementary List of Plants from Mount Lyndhurst Run, §.A., 81. Labroma horrens, 37. Lacon farinensis, Victoriz, 49. Lampusia nodocostata, 90. Leioprora ascepta, 22. Lichenaula amblygona, 9; tholodes, 10. List of Fellows, &c., 196. Lozostoma asema, 23. Marginella biplieata, 92; cratericula, 91; Mayit, 93; multiplicata, 91; ovuleformis, 93; Simsoni, 92. Maroga mythica, 10. Maughan, M. M., Definition of a new species of Polyplacophora, 89. S = ae | ee laciniella, 19; parallela, 19 ; inscripta, 9; %) ad May, W. L., and Prof. Tate, Definition of new species and genera of Australian Mollusca, 90. Megasceloides circwmcinctus, 65. Metriorrhynehus atratus, 52; cliens, 53; eremita, 55 ; flagellatus, 53 ; hemorrhoidalis, © 563 insignipennis, 52; mentitor, 54; miles, 54; paradoxa, 55; rufipennis, 56; semi- costatus, 51. Micro-Lepidoptera, new species of, 6. Misthosima dorsonotata, 161. Mollusca, Australian, new species of, 86, 89, 0. 90. Mount Lyndhurst Run, list of plants from, 81. Mulgundawa, weil-section at, 109; list of fossils from, 111. Myponga Bay, Geological Notes on, 1. Mytilus spp., 108. Nacella Tasmanica, 102. Natalis debilis, 120. Natica Tenisoni, 94 ; Tremarici, 106. Nemophora iolampra, 17; leptosticta, 16. Neocles innocuus, 169. Neolycaon, 49. Neoscrobiger patricius, 136; rauciceps, 137. Notolipernes, 68. Notecia reticulata, 160. Ocnodus lepidus, 38. ‘Odontostomia deplexa, varians, 97. Opilo merens and spp., 119. Opostega nubifera, 23. Ornix acrobaphes, 22; trigonophora, 21. Parasaphes bicolor, 115; quinquesulcatus, 114. Pedois cosmopoda, 12; eurnorpha, 12 ; hume- rana, 12; neurosticha, 12; rhodomita, 13; tripunctella, 12. Peritornenta circulatella, stigmatias, thyellia, 14, Pilostibes trachypvtera, 6. Plants from Mount Lyndhurst Run, list of, 81. Platyphymatia squalidus, 38. Polyplacophora, new species, 86, 89. Presidential Address by Dr. W. L. Cleland, 176. Proceedings, Abstract of, 170. Procometis hylonoma, 11. Pseudorissoina Tasmanica, 98. Pseudotortrix acosma, 15. Pylus anthieoides, 140. Rhipidocera mystacina, 50. Rissoia apicilirata, 99; demessa, 98; dis- crepans, 99; pellucida, 100; perexigua,100; rubicunda, 100 ; Simsoni, 100. Rissopsis buliminoides, consobrina, 101. Rupilia angulaticollis, 66 ; approximans, 67. Scalaria minutula, 95. Scorpiopsis superba, 14. Scrobiger, 136. Selenurus fernshawensis, 115. 07 Stathmopoda mannophora, 23. Stenochiton pallens, 86. Stigmodera acuminata, 41; addenda, 42; biguttata, 41; bucolica, 42; campestris, 41; capucina, 44; carinata, 44; Caroli, 44; Carpentarie, 43; cincta, 47; coerulea, 44; colorata, 41; eonsularis, 42; croci- pennis, 42; dawsonensis, 42; dulcis, 41; elegans, 48; elegantula, 44; filiformis, 47 ; flavescens, 44; flavipennis, 47 ; insignicollis, 45; insignis, 46; Karatte, 43; laudabilis, 41; mansueta, 42 ; obesissima, 47 ; ocularis, 42; ostentatrix, 43; Pascoei, 44; placens, 42; plagiata, 44; quadrifasciata, 46; rubriventris, 46; rubrocincta, 47; rugosi- pennis, 43; sensitiva, 41; subgrata, 41; tacita, 42; tasmanica, 42; terre-regine, 41; triangulosa, 41; verax, 41; vigilans, 42. Streneoderma contemptum, 158; planatum, 157. Stylifer Retterdi, 96. Sulvaniie, a new mineral, 69. Syrnola AHarrissoni, 96; Pelterdi, 97; punctospira, 97. Tarsotenodes simulator, 139. Tarsostenus spp., 138. Tate, Prof. R., Definitions of new species and genera of Australian Mollusca, 90 ; Marine fossiliferous beds at Kerguelen, 104; Well- section at Mulgundawa, 109. Telephorus pulchellus, var. (?) notophilus, 116. Thansimorpha hilaris, 119.° Thanasimus spp., 121. Vhraciopsis angustata, 103. Thylocodes caperatus, 94. Tillus dux, 118. Trichaulus distinctus, funereus, semicostatus, 52. Tropideres evanescens, 180. Turbonilla admiranda, 98. Turner, Dr, A. Jefferis, New Micro-lepidop- tera, 6. Turritella Atkinsoni, 95 ; Haliti, 106. Uniformity of type among Australian Aborigines, factors producing, 176. Xylorycta acrochroa, 8; assimilis, 7. Aynotropis micans, 152. Xysmatodona lenceres, pelochroa, polymeres, 18 Yorke-Peninsula, evidences of glaciation at, Zauclophora pelodes, 8. Zidora Loddere, 101. Zietz, A., Description of a new species of Acanthiza, 112. Zonops heteroleuca, 17. Zygophyllum humillimum, 82. 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