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GEOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE CLIFFS SEPARATING
ALDINGA AND MYPONGA BAYS.

By Epwarp Vincent Ciark, B.Sc.
[Communicated by Pror. Tark.]

[Read November 7, 1899.]

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-

Somewhat further if the sand has been swept b a storm.

The Post-miocene clays which cap the cliffs then gradually €

ordinary high tide is a bank of shingle, increasing in size as we

from where the Miocene reef disappears these no |
covered with vegetation, and behind them is a lagoon in a basin
that was f rly an arm of the sea, but which has re-

sediment washed down from the Sellick’s Ranges. . on is
how fresh water, or only slightly brackish when full, but dries up
nearly every summer. Dead shells of Cowiella confusa are in
Profusion in the silt. ; i
From this point the sandhills give place to a clayey deposit,
still flanked by the bed of shingle (which is much coarser here),
nd 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, arra n

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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 It is largely worn away at the base, and owing to this its
thinness and the weight of the overlying clays—here 80 to à 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
egrees 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.

reaches it whenever the tide is higher than usual. The reef is, of
course, much more indurated, or it could not exist.

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 15
henceforth very irregular. There is practically no more Miren
the shore-line being either a reef or else piled up with detach
boulders, with sometimes a few feet of sand interspersed „with
rocky debris at the foot of the escarpment.

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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

breadth. ue, 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

oint. In these cases, where the dip of the rocks is low, the

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

e 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 different from that of
the bed before mentioned (though containing pretty much the
same fossils), and approaches more nearly to that of the Eocene
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,

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

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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
atits 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

ment. This reef protects the cliff from the sea

projections, painful to walk on; and others, which present the
most peculiar appearance, com of black ferruginous
dolomite, whic ears away along the lines of stratification

does not appear on the face of the cliff, but is very plentiful on
the shoreline, 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 8°

back | at, with frequently a surface coating of clayey soil
carrying vegetation. The rock itself, which crops out frequently,
also becomes more calcareous in 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 à
great dip. Occasionally, where the cliff slopes back more than

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.

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e cliffs here, as mentioned above, are more calcareous than

fatte north (especially the jutting points), where they are
mostly xu purple, brown, or black shales, with bands of

lines qr poor
ollowing are the distances of the various distinctive
pollità 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 Li *
Beginning of gravelly clays ... m. 44
Appearance of Eocene rocks 54 *
Disappearance of Eocene rocks 5g“
Appearance of Cam el

Disappearanceof Cambrian and reappear-

ance of Eocene (here ‚highly es 62 “ :
Reappearance of Cambrian 74 " joe i n
Final disappearance of Eocene oe T“ 7
End of C 8l *

As mentioned before, fossils are very ; difficult to collect, owing
to their being nearly all in fragments. The following, however,
I have identified :—

From the first et bed (of low inclination )—
Cidaris sp.

Lovenia Forbesii, pues Woods.
Scutellina patella, Tat
Fibularia gregata, Tato.
Antedon pertusa, Tate, m.s.
Waldheimia sp. (indet.).

From the Sonn re bed (of high inclination)—

ida

hans Woodsii, Laube.
Lovenia Forbesii, oes Woods.
Fibularia gregata,
Echinolampas posteroerassus, Gregory.
Pecten consobrinus,
Waldheimia sp. (indet.).

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NEw MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA—MOSTLY FROM
QUEENSLAND.

By A. Jerreris Turner, M.D., F.E.S., Brisbane.
[Read December 5, 1899. ]

XYLORYCTIDE.

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 pres a >
resent contribution is SM Jementary to m
* Queensland Zee, ” in the Annals of the p d
Museum, No. 4, 1897
PILOSTIBES, Meyr.

Forewings with veins 7 and 8 stalked or coincident, 7 to cos

On reconsideration, I 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, n.
Female, 40 mm. Head brown-whitish. Palpi een

fuscous o Sees mark on costa at one-fourth ; paler fuscous marks

Palmwoods, Anker and (60 mile sivi of Brisbane); one
specimen taken by Mr. R. H. Relto

"m

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CRYPTOPHAGA BALTEATA, Walk.

Male. Zitna balteata, Walk., Suppl., 1841.
Female. Cryptophaga lurida, Meyr., Proc. Roy. Soc., S.A,
OT:

Both sexes dor one acroleuca, Turner, Annals;Queensland
Museum, 1897,
I am sid abt 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 white. ` Palpi white ; base of a
joint fuscous externally. Antenne dark-fuscous, with a
scattered Pepe scales ; basal joint white. Thorax white, with

terior daek taken: Apol with purple reflections. Abdomen
whitish ; bases of segments partly ochreous-brown. Legs w ite;

a broad grey line pene to hindmargin ; separted by a fine
Mni te line from a grey line on margin ; cilia dark-fuscous,
with a narrow basni. Te ka at ana angle wholly white.
Veces grey; towards r-mar. whitish ; ; cilia white,
with a basal grey line um anterior half of hindmargin and
around a aie x.

very distinet and highly beautiful species. The extremely
short antennal pectinations render it difficult to distinguish from
Lichenaula.
risbane, Queensland ; one specimen at light in. November.

XYLORYCTA ASSIMILIS, 7. sp.

Female, 26 mm. Head white, side tufts and face ochreous”
tinged. at whitish ochreous ; second joint with a few dark-
5 : ir ;

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ochreous tinged. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous ;

ched, apex r
oblique ; snow-white ; costal edge pale-ochreous throughout ;
faint i i suffusion at anal angle; cilia wholly pale-ochreous.
Hindwings whitish-ochreous ; apical portion of disc greyish-
tinged ; cilia EE SAONE

This resembles and might be nemini for Neodrepta
(Xylorycta) luteotactella, Walk., but be at once distin-
guished by the neuration, vein 8 ‘of diss wings running to costa,
and not to hindmargin, as in that species. Tt also differs in the
absence of orange coloration of face and palpi, and in the
ochreous hindwin

Sydney, New South Wales; one pecie taken in October by
Mr. "a. Lyell. The type is in his collection

XYLORYCTA ACROCHROA, n. sp.

Female, 20 mm. Head and thorax snow-white. Palpi white.
Antenne whitish-ochreous ; basal joint white. Abdomen whitish.
Legs whitish-ochreous ; posterior tibie and tarsi white. tore-
wings elongate-oblong, costa wow arched, ver round-pointed,
hindmargin straight, o ique ; snow-white ; a rrow ochreous
streak along costa from before middle to Kec slightly

roader 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 y a fuscous line ; cilia snow-
white, at apex tipped with fuscous, and with a dark-fascous bar
at one-third. Hindwings whitish grey ; cilia wh

eater ae among the species with n forewings
by the apical ma

Mount Paitone | (1, 8V0 feet), Queensland ; one specimen in

ovember.

ZAUUCLOPHORA, n. g.

Head smooth. Tongue moderate. Antennæ moderate, in
male shortly bipaskinnted throughout, en. joint moderate with-
out pecten. Labial palpi very long, re ascending, secon
joint ips exceeding base of antenne, termipal joint shorter than
second, acute. assecuti palpi very a, m to tongue.

orax smooth. Abdomen moderate. Ante and middle
tibiæ smooth-scaled, posterior tbe rough-hai ird. Forewing
with vein 2 from two-thirds, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 p ago qn

apex, 11 from middle. Hindwings over 1, v and 4

differs in the much longer palpi, more slender abdomen,
smoother anterior and middle tibie

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ZAUCLOPHORA PELODES, n. sp.
Male, 23 mm. Head and thorax ochreous- brown. Palpi
dark-fuscous ; ; zn aspect whitish-ochreous. Antenne dark-

fuscous. Abdomen reddish-ochreous ; apices of segments whitish-
ochreous. Legs hitik ochreous; firs o pairs dark-fuscous
anteriorly. Forewings elongate, coste, moderately arched, apex

rounded, hindmargin slightly rounded, oblique ; ochreou s-brown,
with ill- detined ochreous-whitish markings; an o Se
suffusion i in dise; an outwardly curved line from costa at two-

apex, separated by a fuscous spot; hindmargin and anal angle
irrorated by fuscous scales ; Vive ochreous-whitish irrorated with
fuscous. indwings fuscous ; wards base suffused with
ochreous ; cilia whitish- re ium a faint fuscous line at
apex and at anal angle.
The type is in poor condition, but the species is a very distinct
one.

es Queensland; one specimen received from Mr. H.
ryon

LICHENAULA AMBLYGONA, m. sp.
male, 28 mm. Vein 7 of forewings to hindmargin. He
ian Palpi white; terminal joint mostly fuscous internally.
Thorax fuscous, irrorated with -— Be ‚Abdomen ochreous-
en, Legs whitish, irrorated with fuscous, except posterior
i

round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate; w feo rather densely
irrorated with fuscous; a triangular fuse us suffusion on inner-
ar

ner margi
suffusion on middle of hiaihné dolls cilia fuscous, at apex w
at anal angle with white apices. Hindwings pale. -grey, nk

Distinguished from ir other species with an angulated
posterior line—Z. ox ona, Luc.; . goniodes, Turn., and
L. micradelpha, Turn., pur the fuscous thorax.

Brisbane, Queen sland ; one specimen taken by Mr. F
Dodd. I am indebted to Lord Walsingham for permission to
describe this species, of which the type is now in his collection.

- LicHENAULA INSCRIPTA, Turn.
p Veteres Mus., 1897, No. 4, 21.
Male, Head and thorax white. Palpi white, MS a |
second eie liebe fuscous-tinged. Antenne dark-fusco
Abdomen fuscous : ; first two rings and apices of segments ind: ;

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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 de ned.

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 im my
tabulation should be altered accordingly.

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.

slightly sinuate, scarcely oblique; purplish-fuscous, densel
irrorated with whitish, Jess 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. :

risbane, Queensland; two specimens taken at light in

January and March.

Maroca mytuica, Meyr.

Maroga undosa, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1893, p- 164.
sent a specimen of Lucas’ species to Mr. Meyrick, who 1n
forms me that it is identical with his own.

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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
Phleophora lactea is referable to the same genus must be left
undecided until the male is discovered.

PROCOMETIS HYLONOMA, Meyr.
Procometis acompta, Turn. Annals Queensland Museum, No.
V., p. 30, and Procometis heterogama, Lower, Proc. Linn. Soc.,
N.S.W., 1899, p. 103, are identical with this species.
Brisbane, Stradbrooke Island, and Warwick, Queensland ;

Bathurst, New South Wales; and Kangaroo Island, South
Australia.
AGRIOPHARA NODIGERA, n. sp.

Female, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennæ ochreous-
whitish, irrorated with fuscous. Pa pi very short, not reaching
halfway to base of antenn:e, terminal joint minute. Abdomen
ochreous-fuscous. Legs whitish, sparsely irrorated with fuscous ;

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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 dise 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
obseure, but the raised blackish dots are characteristic.

Warwick, Queensland ; one specimen in October.

(GECOPHORIDZE.
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 Depressariadır.

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PEDOIS, Meyr. Mo ).

rca t base, jun
lower branch terminating abruptly before — margin, 2 an
3 from before anal an gle, 6 to apex or co 7 and 8 stalked, 7
to costa. Hindwings 1 or slightly over 1, ibs 3 and 4 connate,
6 and 7 parallel. Posterior tibiæ long-haired.
I have A al ight of six species, whieli may be tabulated
us—

th
E en e E ME e i
Vei
2. Forewings w with long streaks parallel to veins... cipuntl, m "y
ede set without long streaks parallel to veins mopoda,
3 vest i t of palpi with a minute posterior tuft
ix neurosticha, Lower
Second joint o of palpi v without a minute © posterior i
t fo i 4,
4. Hindwings ee m qe i = .. eurnorpha, Meyr.
Hindwings not yellow T oe qe
5. Forewings orange-ochreous ... Ih = humerama, T alk.
Forewings reddish n dei .. rhodomita, n. sp.

PEDOIS nuwERANA, 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.
oc. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1894, p. 112.
Ar Victoria, i in January; two specimens received from
Mr. S. Lye ell.
PEDOIS TRIPUNCTELLA, Walk.
Brisbane, Queensland, in August and September.

PEDOIS COSMOPODA, n. sp.

Male and female, 16-18 mm. Head and thorax grey, irrorated
with whitish-grey ; face whitish. Palpi whitish ; second —
with a dark-fuscous subapieal ring, and dark-fusco s basal an

medium bars on external surface ; terminal joint d rk-fuscous
_anteriorly, posteriorly pinkish- tinged. Antenne whitish, pinkish-
tinged, annulated with dark-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey-

hitish ; anterior and middle tibie pinkish, annulated with
dark-fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa strongly arched

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at base, thence straight, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely
rounded ; whitish-grey irrorated with dark-fus scous ; costal edge
pin from base to a ex; the irroration is particularly dense
along Weise, o Jem of dise, and in posterior portion of

dise shows a ten ency to form short streaks parallel to veins ;
cilia w hitish, faintly pinkish- tinged, with traces of a meditis
fuscous indwings grey, paler towards ae ; ae grey.

andgate and Wynum, near Brisbane, onen four
specimens in August. T
PEDOIS RHODOMITA, m. sp.

Male, 19 mm. Head whitish, suffused with vinous-red. Pa lpi
w hitish ; second joint externally suffused with dark-fuscous ;
terminal joint reddish-tinged ; anterior and internal surface dark-
fuscous, except at base an apex. Antennæ 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

dot in disc before middle, a second beyond middle, and a third
on fold bankatk first; a series of reddish-fuscous dots on apical
third of costa and hindmargin ; cilia reddish. Hindwings grey,
cilia whitish.

Allied to P. newrosticha, Lower; very distinct by the reddish
colouring.

Mt. Tambourine Queensland ; one specimen taken in January
by Mr. C. J. Wild

ERITORNENTA, Meyr. (MSS.).

Head with appressed scales. Palpi long, second joint much
exceeding base of antenne, terminal joint shorter than second,
net stout, Rn Antenne as long, or nearly as long, as

angle, 6 and 7 stalked, 7 apex. Hindwings 1, veins 3 and 4
stalked, 7 En d from 6 at base, somewhat approxi-
mated in T then slightly diverging.

I have three species “referable here—
l. Hindvings a ochreous ... e Sm V MED iut Walk.

mi stigmatias, n. sp.
MI ra a series of ‘blackish dots from :
base to costa at beyond middle — ... thyellia, Meyr.

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PERITORNENTA CIRCULATELLA, Walk.
Brisbane, Queensland, in October.

PERITORNENTA THYELLIA, Meyr. (MSS.).
Brisbane, Queensland.

PERITORNENTA STIGMATIAS, Nn. Sp.
Male, 17-19 mm. Head and thorax pale-fuscous ; face whitish.
Palpi whitish; terminal joint pale-fuscous, except on internal
surface. ntennz whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs

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 beyon«
middle ; a second row from base to inner-margin beyond middle ;
eight rows in posterior portion of disc; cilia whitish. Hindwings

Brisbane and Mt Tambourine, Queensland ; two specimens in
November and January. :

SCORPIOPSIS SUPERBA, Turn.

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.

PLUTELLIDZE.
Exw1A vives, Walk.
Lactura dives, Walk., Bomb, 486. Calligenia pilcheri, Lucas,
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1891, p. 279.
Rockhampton, Bundaberg, and Brisbane, Queensland.

ENÆMIA MIXOLEUCA, n. sp.
Female, 18-19 mm. Head white. Palpi dark-fuscous; ter-

variably developed white dot; anterior edge of fascia strongly
sinuate, and connected with costa streak ; a second fascia trom

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costa before apex to anal angle, , moderately broad, inwardly
Ww

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 PREISE taken by Mr. R.
Illidge.

CALLITHAUMA, n. g.

Head with appressed scales, slightly projecting anteriorly.
Palpi long; second joint exceeding base of antennæ, smooth
scaled, soneel thickened towards apex ; terminal joint much
shorter than second, slender, acute. Antennæ 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 tibi smooth-scaled. Male genitalia
provided with a pair of long curved processes, arising from
inferior surface and projecting upwards.

CALLITHAUMA BASILICA, n. sp.

Male and Female, 12-13 mm. Head ye ellow, mixed w
reddish on crown. Palpi orange; terminal joint whitish, uh a
broad subapical dark-fuscous ring. Antennæ whitish, annulated
with blackish; base of first joint reddish. Thorax reddish,
mixed with pale yellow. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish ; anterior
tibie reddish. Forewings narrow elongate, costa moderately

bright-red, mixed with purple-fuscous, markings e yellow,
edges ot markings mostly clear red ; an oblique bar f
costa; a moderate fascia from costa at one. fourth to inner
margin before middle, broadest on costa, somewhat curved in
isc; a dot on inner-margin beyond middle, a second dot in
dise external to this— these show a variable tendency to connec-

ochreous whitish.
oowoomba and Fee Queensland; five specimens in
September and October
PSEUDOTORTRIX, n. g.
ead with appressed scales, om tufts rather small. Palpi
short, sii er not reaching base of antenne»; second joint
Stout, with appressed scales ; ueri joint very short, rather .

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stout, pointed. Antenne short (half) in male with short cilia-
tions (half), pecten absent horax smooth. Abdomen stout.
Forewings posteriorly dilated, apex rectangular, hindmargin not
oblique ; v ein 1 b fureate at bas se, 2 from near angle of cell, 7
and 8 sale 8 to hindmargin, 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind-
wings ov l; ; vein: 2 from angle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked.
Posterior tibi smooth-scaled.

am indebted to Mr. Meyrick for indicating the correct posi-
tion of the following species, which supetticially has a close
resemblance to some of the Tortricida.

PsEUDOTORTRIX ACOSMA, n. sp.

Male and female, 16-17 mm. Head and thorax brownish-
fascous. Palpi brownish-fuscous; internal surface of second joint
white. Antenn:e whitish-ochreous, sometimes fuscous. men
dark-fuscous or brownish-fuscous. Legs whitish. Forewings
posteriorly strongly dilated, costa modera tely arched, apex
rectangular, hindmargin very slightly sinuate, rounded beneath,
not oblique ; brownish-fuscous, posterior portion of psi sometimes
suffused with brownish-ochreous ; sometimes a small fuscous

middle; a fuscous dot in disc at ml ; followed by tw
oblique fuscous lines from costa at three-fifths and foun fifths
t :

same speci
TINEIDZE,
NEMOPHORA, Hübner,
This genus has not hitherto been recorded outside Europe, and
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
dam: and palpi broken. In a second c wee d allied species
received from Mr. G. Lyell these parts are perfect.
NEMOPHORA LEPTOSTICTA, n. sp.
Male 13 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen nte
. Antenne over three, white. Legs whitish. Forewings pos
. teriorly dilated, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed,

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hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; white, with numerous pale-
grey 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, n. sp.

Female, 16 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennz fuscous.
Antennæ over two. Abdomen grey. Legs pale-fuscous; posterior
pair whitish. Forewings narrow-elongate, not dilated, costa

May.
ZONOPS, n. g.

Head and face densely rough-haired. Eyes in male divided by

a horizontal ridge of scales into upper and lower segments ; lower

present. Labial palpi moderate, second joint slender, with

horizontal ridge of scales apparently serves to divide the field of
vision of each eye into an upper and a lower part.
ZONOPS HETEROLEUCA, n. sp.

Male and female, 15-16 mm. Head, face, palpi, and antenne
dark-fuscous; fillet and bases of antenn® whitish in female.
Thorax dark-fuscous, patagia pale-fuscous; in female wholly

Abd

fuscous, annulated with whitish ; posterior pair whitish-fuscous.
Forewings narrow-elongate, costa slightly arched, apex round.

B

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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, n. sp.

Male, 16 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi dark fuscous.
Antenne dark-fuscous ; basal jeint ochreous-whitish. horax
dark-fuscous. Abdomen grey; tuft ochreous - whitish e
whitish; antorior pair dark-fuscous, with obscure whitish annula-
i Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex
peak grates hindmargin obliquely rounded; vein 7 absent;

ite; markings dark-fuscous ; a narrow basal fascia prolonged

ourth
before middle of inner-margin, ~ anterior edge very irregular,
deeply excavated in middle; a rather large triangular spot on

species is probably variable; cilia whitish, faintly ochreous-
tinged, on spots bases are fuscous. Hindwings very pale-
Yetis- grey ; ; cilia whitish.

It ars to resemble X. hamalitha, Meyr., but may be dis-
Kt er, by the wholly pale hindwings.
Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in July.

XYSMATODONA LENCERES, m. sp.

Female, 18 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antenne white.
Abdomen. whitish-grey ; tuft whitish. m whitish-grey; pos-
terior pair whitish. Forewings elongate, costa ren

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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 iia ic paler in colour than the male, but

otherwise similar
ARDIOSTERES SCOTEINA, n. sp,

Male, 22mm. Head dark-fuscous. Palpi ochreous, mixed

with dark ciliations ; fuscous, except towards base and at apex

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Antenne dark-fuscous. Thorax with a large posterior crest;
dark- aper ; apex of patagia and two postero-lateral spots pale-
ochre Abdomen dark- Fons d beneath ochreous; tuft large,
ee whitish. Legs dark-fuscous, mix with ochreous.
Forewings moderate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa rather
strongly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin obliquely

middle ; cilia dark- fuscous, with a whitish spot sg below middle
of hindmargin. Hindwings and cilia dark-fuse
t. Tambourine (1, oe ft.), Queensland ; one UTER taken
by Mr. Illidge in Febru ary.
CHRYSORYCTIS OCHROXANTHA, ^. sp.

Female, 15 mm. Head pale-yellowish. Maxillary palpi 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

fuscous streak along costa nearly to middle, at base reaching
i 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 efined, and reaching to lower part of h rein ;
included in middle of fascia is a small oval yellowish spot, placed
transversely, and edged by fuscous scales; a sho ark-

wings dark- -grey, with Pas reflections ; cilia grey.
Distinguished by the pale colouring, large pe area not
occupied by purplish band, and dark subapical strea
Brisbane, Qneensland ; one specimen in Ru
GRACILARIA PARALLELA, Tur
Brisbane, from July to Noveniber; wees to Acacia
AR 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.”

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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 piperita (?) and Eucalyptus
eugenioides, on which they are sometimes very abundant.

GRACILARIA TRISTAINE, Turn.
I have bred this species also from Eugenia ventenatii. Like
the preceding, the antenns are porrected in repose.
Brisbane, from September to December.

GRACILARIA OPHIODES, Turn.
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

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.
e.

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Stt. as defined by Meyrick, it may be distinguished by absence
of pale-yellowish suffusion along costa, absence of spot on fold,

Tristania suaveolens. G.ida I have always found attached to-
Eucalyptus piperita (1), G. formosa to Eugenia ventenatii.
GRACILARIA ALBICINCTA, n. sp.

Male, 85 mm. Head and thorax pale-ochreous-brown. Maxil-
lar lpi ochreous-whitish. Labial alpi ochreous-whitish ;
second joint with an apical, terminal joint with a median and
subapical dark-fuscous ring. Antenne longer than forewings,
ochreous - whitish, annulated with dark -fuscous. bdomen
ochreous-fuscous ; beneath whitish. Legs whitish ; apices of

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wardly oblique whitish faseia before middle, edges parallel, well
defined, with dark-fuscous scales; some n dark-fuscous
dots in fascia ; basal part of dise 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, n. 8p.

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 tibie and
first tarsal joints, outer aspect of distal portion of middle and
posterior tibie dark-fuscous. Forewings ochreous-fuscous; a
white line along inner margin, somewhat dilated at anal angle,

to middle; a fine line fro sta at one-fourth, running closely
eneath costa to three-fourths, there bent obliquely across disc
to anal angle; its lower rgin suffused with k-fuscous,

ORNIX TRIGONOPHORA, 7. Sp.

Male and female, 10-11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne
grey. Thorax white, sides fuscous-grey. omen grey, tuft
white. Legs white, annulated with grey ; anterior pair grey.
Forewings narrow-elongate ; fuscous-grey, markings white DA
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

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Mt. Tambourine, Queensland ; a dozen specimens taken at one
spot in November.
ORNIX ACROBAPHES, n. sp.

Male, 11 mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne grey.
Thorax grey (?). Abdomen grey, tuft white. Legs white,
nnulated with fuscous ; anterior pair mostly fuscous. Forewin gs
narrow- elongate ; grey, markings white, a broad streak along
inner-margin, several very short streaks from costa; ante- apical
portion of ' disc c mostly white, containing two short parallel longi-
tudinal dark-fuscous streaks ; dam portion white, enclosed in a

triangular fuscous line, an ntaining a grey blotch, with
central dark-fuscous ut ; cilia "dte, at apex with apices dark-
fuscous, at anal angle gr Hin dwings grey, er half intense

black, the boundary line i is irregular ; > cilia g
Closely allied to the preceding, but at once Totag by
the blackish hindwings. The type is not in perfect condition.
Brisbane, Queensland ; one specimen in January.

LEIOPRORA, n. g.

Head smooth. Tongue short. Antennæ veis eunt veg
one, in male simple, basal joint dilated and concave benca
form eyecap. Labial palpi short, filiform, cui ng, pol ied
Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Posterior tibie with short stiff

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 Phylloenistis, Zel. Distinguish-
able from the former by the smooth he: ad, and from the latter by
the long antenne, also by the neuration.

LEIOPRORA ASCEPTA, n. 8p.

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 tibie
and tarsi fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate ; ochreous- decus
with golden reflections ; an indistinet fuscous suffusio n on
of inner-margin, and another on costa iddle ; a v aed
fuscous line from inner-margin at eo thirds ee 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 indwings and cilia grey

Brisbane, TRABE y taken rather ER on fences from
June to September.

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OPOSTEGA NUBIFERA, N. Sp.

Ma mm. Head and palpi white. Antenne greyish;
basal joint white. Thorax white. Abdomen dark-grey. Legs
whitish; anterior pair grey. orewings elongate: white;
markings suffused greyish; two rather broadly suffused acutely
angulated fascize, 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

Resembles O. chalinias, Meyr., but distinguished by the wholly
white head, and ape rather broadly suffused markings without
golden- fuacous- tin

Toowoomba, Qua dud one specimen in September.

ELACHISTID A.
STATHMOPODA MANNOPHORA, %. sp.
Male 14 mm. Hea ark-fuscous ; face ‘tite’ 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 fuaccus 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.

pn to S. pantarches, Meyr., but at once distinguished by

e dark-fuseous head.

le veros jer one specimen in November, taken by

Mr. H. Tryon
LozosToMA ASEMA, m. sp.

Female, 10-11 mm. Head dark-fuscous, narrowly edged pos-
teriorly with yellow; face and fillet whitish. Palpi whitis!:.
Antenne whitish. Thoras 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.

Br isbane and Mt. emae Queensland ; four specimers in
October and November.

NOTES-ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDSKINS FROM
KALGOORLIE, W.

By Roserr HALL.
[Communicated by. Proressor E. C. SriRLING.]
[Read April 3, 1900.]

Kalgoorlie, Alice Springs, and Derby are approximately 1,000
miles from each other, embracing a triangular-like mass of

species are known to be associated with the South-West position.
To Mr. Lindsay Cameron I am indebted for a nice collection of

with low rounded hills every few miles, and is covered with short
and dry eucalyptus-scrub some 15 feet high. Occasional
Casuarinas are seen, wit lsolaceæ interspersed between the
ms. Eucalypts, perhaps 50 feet high, are represented wit
their branches meagrely supplied with foliage. There appears to
be no surface water away from the minin i

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 esent “list, and ae it is a land in which
an stern man so much misses the organ-pipe strains of the
Persia d u ) and the piping "eins of the Magpie Lark

Thos

the Sir Thomas Elder Expedition, who above Kalgoortie, and as
recorded in the Trans. Roy. Soc., S.A., XVI, p. 156. Eighteen
specimens of ten species are there no oted as the total ornitho-
logical results of that long journey. The Bower-bird (Chlamy-
dodera guttata) appears to bave 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 beings
one of three field observations in the West to date. Recorded

now as found in West and South-West Australia is the yellow-

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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.
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.; id., Gould, Bds, Austr.,
fol. vol. 3.

Cerchneis cenchroides, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., I., p. 431 ;
Hall, “ Key to the Birds of Austr.," p. 3.

Adult skin pa oh December, 1898. Bars on tail feathers
almost obsolet Both sexes take part in incubation, the male

ing its mate in the task of incubation pied the day. The young
when ready to fly are without the yellow ce
HIERACIDEA ORIENTALIS, pa el.
Hieracidea berigora, Gould., Bds. Austr., fol. vol. I., pl. 11.
Hieracidea orientalis, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. L, p.
122; Hall, * Key to the Birds of Austr.,” p. 3.
One juvenile skin received.
PACHYCEPHALA GILBERTI, Gould.
Pachycephala gilberti, Gould, Bds. Austr, fol IL, pl. 71;
Gadow, Brit. Mus, Ca t. Bds eo VIIL, p. 210; Hall, * Key to
€ Birds of Austr.,’
Skin, male, es 10/98, This specimen does not show a
black bg dd collar.
b.

grey, Pos wing coverts sandy buff. Length of wing, 3:75 ins.;
tail 3:5 in

On Se bv de lst a nest was found i m: four eggs, three
being the hitherto recorded number to a clutch. The nest was
composed of small sticks and bark, the ee being—
Exterior diameter, 6 ins.; depth of cavity, 4 ins.; total depth,
6 ins.; depth of cavity, 2 ins. Height of nest from 5 feet.

ACANTHIZA APICALIS, Gould.

Acanthiza apicalis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. HE, pl. 57;
Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds, VIL, p. 296; Hall, “Key to the
birds of Austr., ' p. 25.

Skin, adult male, 14/8/98.

It is a plentiful bird here.

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SERICORNIS BRUNNEA, Gould.
Pyrrholemus brunnea, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. TTI., pl. 68-
Sericornis brunnea, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. e . Bds., VIL, p. 302 5
id., Hall, * Key to the Birds of Austr.,’
| Skin, adult male, 12/3/99. Zoe. le Ridge.

Micra@ca ASSIMILIS, Gould.
Micreca Ben muet, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. ne Me vol, V4 9.
124; Hall, * Key to the Birds i Austr.," p. 1
Adult skin (unsexed), 16/10/'9

PoMATORHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS, Vig. and Hor.
Pomatorhinus superciliosus, Gould, Bds. Aust., fol vol. IV.»
pl. 22; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. VIT., p. 419; Hall

a, b. Male and female, 1 99,
c, d. Immature skins, 17/1798, 19/3/99.
XEROPHILA, sp.

The one skin received does not agree with any of the known
species as described. X. leucopsis is the only species of the genus
in Western Australia, and with that it has very little agreement.
A provisional description was rd by the writer in the “ Vic-

torian Naturalist,” XVI., No. 2

CINCLOSOMA ner Gould.
Cinclosoma castanonotus, Gould, Bds. Austr, fol vol. IV.,
1.5

en castanonotum, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VII,
p. 333; Hall, “ Key to the Birds of Aust.,” p. 27.

Adult skin, male, 2/12,’98. The bac k end. rump feathers are
dull chestnut, mn with the rich chestnut of the Eastern
birds in my cabine

rd RUFA, Gould.

Climacteris rufa, Gould, Bds. Austr, fol. vol. IV., pl. 94;
Gadow, Brit. Mus . Cat. Bds., VITI., p. 335 ; Hall, “ Key to the
Birds of Austr.," p. 35.

Adult skin, male, 24/1/98.

The common tree-creeper of this district.

CLIMACTERIS SUPERCILIOSA, North.

Climacteris supareilioea, — Horn Exp. yr Aust.,

Zool., plate; Hall, * Phe Nat,” vol. X VL, No. 11; id, " Key to

n

; 35.
ES n" sos 30/10, '08. b. Skin, female, IRAM 98.
ceipt of a skin from Nannine, and dated
30/1 /99. “Tt is probably a female, and oak sn Rs central

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tail deserto to be brown rather than grey, the colour of the upper
Wale
Perraca BICOLOR, Vig. and Hors.

Petroica bicolor, Gould., Bds. Austr., fol. vol. TII., pl. 7

Petreca bicolor, Sharpe, Brit. Mus Cat. Bds. , vol. TV p. 173;
Hall, * Key to the Birds of Austr.," p.

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 Moe notes from early to late, and
when other Robins are in the shade, this is most actively chasing

and eapturing grasshoppers. E^ freely associates with other
birds (as the Artamide). Amongst birds in general, there
appears to be security in numbers.

PETRa:wA GoopENovil, Vig. and Hors.
Petroica goodenovii, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl.
Petrwca goodenovii, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds, "vol. dv.
p. 171; Hall, “Key to the Birds of Austr." p. 13.
a. Adult sn LA 20/1/99. c. Skin, juv. male, Dec., 1898.
b. Immature skin d. Skin, juv. female, Den, 1898.
(a). It is tuc on the throat and duller on the breast than
the Eastern skins in my collection. The forehead ‘t reds ” bear
the same relation to the breast “reds” in each.
(b). It has the basal frontal mark duller than in (a) and much
less of it. The breast red is dull, throat brownish-blac
(c) It has only a trace of red on the M xd pectoral
regions ; throat, crown, and nape greyish-brow
(d). It has a tant trace of red on the i oe none on the
reas
mage of what are called the Red Robins is quite im-
perfect * 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, Ae 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-

eds; one patch of brownish feathers remain iet 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 irregularly graduated. The brownish

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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 poo for the blacks; abdomen and lower tail coverts
were already white.
Gould proved P. un to moult its “ reds" annually. An

supply shows out almost patch for patch in P. phen i in
zen Mint 36/1/1900. described Roy. Soc. of V e
song of this species is clear and strong, like "p. leggii, but | is much

sweeter and of a different setting.
ARTAMUS PERSONATUS, Gould.

Artamus personatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 31;
Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat., Bds., vol. XTIL, p. 16; Hall, a Key to
a R 48.

Immature skin, female, 24/11/98. The mask is not so well

defined as in adult rums pua the outer borders of the primaries
are edged with light-bro

; his species, like Pora cor onoides, places outposts as an act of

prevention when bellicose birds are in thə neighbourhood. They

change their sentinels ati eo £ "t log e always sure to have

m concerning A. superciliosus. In this case the
enemy seemed specially to be the White-backed Crow-shrike
(C. leuconota).

ARTAMUS SORDIDUS, Latham.

Artamus pex Gould, Bds. Austr. fol vol IL, pl 27;
Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus, vol. XIIL., p. 19; Hall, «a Key to
the Birds of Austr." p. 4

a. Skin, female, 146/98. No white in third primary—indi-
cates not quite mature. Second primary lon st.

h

b. Skin, ee male, 10/12/96. T pper and under
surfaces brown, ked and spotted with dusky white, much
stronger on the ings deep slate, second and third

seit late brown. Tout of wing, 3-1 ins.; culmen, d idi:
r5

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The following portion of their gregarious habit is specially in-
teresting :— Roosting 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 Mee that the upper part forms
an inverted funnel, is then chosen. The interest is to watch the
shuffling upward movements my the birds as they move towards
and enter the hole. While those on the stump are getting safely

large enough to hold all; they then cluster in a great bunch
(like a beeswatuj when ab rest) beneath the dome. Hence the

ditions. Should a person pass too near, there is a nerve-startling
rush, such as a tree falling close to ae would produce, and the
process of camping has to be repeate

PARDALOTUS ORNATUS, Temm.
Pardalotus striatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., pl. 38.
Pardalotus ornatus, Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bas.) vol. X., p.
55; Hall, * Key to the Birds of Austr.," p. 46.
a, b. Skins, adult male and female, 397 98.

COLLYRIOCINCLA RUFIVENTRIS, Gould.
Collyriocincla i peu Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl.
75; Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat je vol. IIL, p. 292; Hall, “ Key

3 :
a. Skin, adult female, Tra '98.
b. Skin, immature female, 4/9/98.

a). General eee brownishgrey, lores and iiber parts cor-
responding with the brown over most of the grey. Bi
black ; length, 0:9 in

(5). 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, poo along the
culmen ; length, 0-75 inch.

he immature female has the eyebrow like its surroundings in
colour.

TAENIOPYGIA CASTANOTIS, Gould.

Amadina castanotis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. III., pl. 87.

eniopygia en Sharpe, Brit. Cat. Bds., vol
XIIL, p. 311; Hall, * Key Bds. Austr.," 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, Chaleococeyx basalis,
is now placed on record. Mr. Cameron writes—'*A colony of the
chestnut-eared Finch had its nests sprinkled about, some

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eggs, and others vacant. In one of the latter I found the
euckoo's egg (skin since received). I left it, and several days
after (November 19) I visited the nest, and found no other eggs
dded. The Finches had deserted. In one tree there were as
many as 30 nests. In the split spout of a ‚eucalypt the nest "
oecasionally built." A favourite situation in the vp is at t
base of a Crow or Hawk's nest, and the Finch and Hawk per =
within a foot of each other amicably. One nest had a elutch of
nine eggs. Sometimes the rudely-built nests meant for the non-
sitting bird will contain eggs. The v atat of the nest will

ma
placed in polygynum were very small deg 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 me a field pia 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. atching carefully a dozen, we saw them settle in
the bowl of the lowest fork of a large mulga, pa following
them, we found about two ee of water init. This is
about what is saved from a slight aele and we are
pleased to acknowledge thas service rendered by a species of
Finch.
EPHTHIANURA TRICOLOR,* Gould.
Ephthianura tricolor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IIT., pl. 66;
gei Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. MIL, B. 667; Hall, * Key Bds.

P.
A adult male.
at appears in great numbers at Kalgoorlie by the end
of October, and begins to depart towards the end of December.
Further North Æ. aurifrons has been noticed (Elder Exp.).

OREOICA CRISTATA,* Lewin.

Oreoica gutturalis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IT., pl. 81.

Oreoica cristata, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., VIIL, p. 174;
Hall, “ rid Bds. Austr.," p. 32.

, juv. male, 13/5/99. Forehead brownish-grey, crest
feathers Tight 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 flush 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

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bird. The aborigines of W.A. have noted two settled calls. This
supports the err of Dr. Stirling and Mr. Zeitz (Roy. Soc.,
S. A., 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. 3
CRACTICUS DESTRUCTOR, Temm.
Cracticus destructor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. TI., pl. 52

Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. VIIL, p. 100; Hall, «Key

Bye mining a series of skins, I find the most developed male
may be marine by the white throat, grey back, flanks and
sides of upper breast greyish-white ; culmen, 1:62 inches. The

development i is from deep-brown on the dorsal region to black and

young is displaced by the faint blue-grey on the sides of the
breast in the adult.
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 ; N light-brown ; zuppa fa tail
coverts light-brown, barred with deep-brown ; centre heek

tinged with pale-rufous ; bill brownish-black at the base, brown
at the tips; legs | sla atey- -brown. Length of wing, 4:3 ins.; tail,
2-8 ins.; culmen,
PTILOTIS ORNATA, Gould.
Ptiletis ornata, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 39; Gadow,
Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IX., p. 244; Hall, “Key Austr. Bds.,”

a. Skin, adult female, 4/9/98. Loc.—Golden Ridge.

b. Skin, adult female, 16/10/98. Loc. Mi Eoi Centre.
The two centre tail feathers were very much dec

c. Skin, immature, 2/4/99. Loc.—“ Hannan's Taa ” General

: br
more heavily blotched with brown ges of inner webs of
primaries edged with fulvous. New fail quills were developing,
and the bird was concluding its autumn moult.

MANORHINA FLAVIGULA, Gould.
Myzant tha Jlavigula, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., p. 79.
Manorkini flavigula, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., ‘vol. IX;
P. 261; Hall, * Key Austr. Bds.," p. 44.

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je, adul female, 5/3/99. Length of wing, 47 ins; tail,
4:5 in

his | bird was concluding its moult, and the innermost quill
was pos ng.” The winglet feathers had their sheaths still
attac
The Winding of M. flavigula in West or S.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, Gould.

Glycyphila er Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 29;
Gadow, Brit. Cat. Bds., vol. IX.. p- 211; Hall, “ Key Bds.
ges y d p^

. Tmmature skin, 27/11/98.
. Immature skin, male, 27/11/98. Forehead black, a few of
the Haken fiore feebly tipped with slatey-white ; around eye

dusky-black, edged with impure white ; primaries and primaries-
coverts-margins yellowish-green ; under surface of wing fulvous ;
upper tail coverts rufous, Bet parts black ; abdomen, flanks,
and under tail coverts whitish, with centres of ‘feathers narrowly
marked with brownish-black ; bill, legs, and feet black. Wing,
5ins.; tail, 3 ins.; tarsus, 0:8 ins. ; 'éulmen, 0:65 ins.

ENTOMPHILA LEUCOMELAS, Cuvier.

Melicophila picata, Gould, Bds. nn. a vol. IV., pl. 49.

Entomophila leucomelas, Gadow, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. IX.,
p. 220; Hall, '* Key Bds. Aust, ” p. 40.

Skin, adult female, 19/10/98

CUCULUS PALLIDUS, Latham.

Cuculus inornatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 85.

Cuculus pallidus, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XIX., p-
261; Ball, * Key Bds. eus p. 58.

Skin, adult male, 4/9/98

The male skins in my cabinet been to fall into three phases

in which T lilt E throughout the

5 zn
ure, in which white does not predominate throughout
the preme The feathers are narrowly edged with white, and

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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 blaekish; culmen, 0:8 in.

d. ult, in which there is little white thro ughout the
plumage, the feathers not being edged with white, and some of
the quills and rectrices alone dentated with white; win
generally light-brown. Bill blackish; culmen, 0:85 in, and
broader at nostrils than in a or b.

CHALCOCOCCYX BASALIS, Horsf.
Chrysococcya.lucidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 89.
Chalcococcyx basalis, Shelley, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. SIN.

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.

MisocALIUS PALLIOLATUS, Latham.
Chalcites oseulans, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. IV., pl. 88.
Misocalius PO Shelley, Brit. Mus, Cat. Bds., “val XIX,
p. 279; Hall, “ Key Bds. Austr.,” p. 59.
Skin, adult female, 4/9/98.
HALCYON PYRRHOPYGIUS, Gould.
Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. II., 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, Temm.
Psephotus multicolor, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. voL V., Eu
Salvadori, Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 566; Hall, “ Key
ds. Aus str.,” p- 67.
a. Skin, adult female, ie:
b. Skin, adult male, 11/12/’9
C. Skin, adult male, 15/3/99.
a, b, and e indicate three distinct phases of the plumage :—
imaries, secondaries, their coverts, the tail and its
posed.

b) Generai plum above olive, as well as upon the throat
and chest; — ae abdomen lemon-green ; shoulder
feathers

(ce) The olive P (b) is bright-green; abdomen orange

yellow; shoulder feathers bright-yellow, illustrating indios

oism.
Specimen (b) would need to go through another moult to
c

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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. Bde, 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 mining a flower. Thousands of
blossoms daily fall by this mean

MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS, Shaw,

pé at wundulatus, Y Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. vol. V., pl.
44; zug t. Mus. Cat. Bds., vol. XX., p. 594; Hall, « Key
Bds. Aust

p. 68.
Skin, wt SR 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

The not unusual occurrence of a snake entering the nest of a bird
oceurred under Mr. Cameron's notice, and the four eggs were
— by the reptile, after which it slept for several hours in the
ne

The following species have been recognised by Mr. Cameron,
without the skins being forwarded to the writer :—

Graucalus melanops, La

Podargus phalenoides, Gould (1).
Eupodotis australis, Gray.
Dromeus nove-hollandie, Latham.
Cherameca leucosternum, Gou
Plectrorhynchus lanceolatus,* Gould.
Gymnorhina dorsalis, Camp.
Rhipidura tricolor. Vieill.

er

* Not yet recorded as a W.A. species.

FURTHER NoTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA,
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND
SPECIES

By the Rev. T. BraAcKBURN, B.A.
XXVI.
[Read May 1, 1900.]

CARABID/E.
CLIVINA.
C. eyrensis, sp. nov. Minus convexa; sat nitida; brunneo-
testaceus; mandibulis brevibus; clypeo ab “alis” distincto,

quam a magis prono antice fere truncato ad extremi-
lis (fere u b.

transversim leviter rugato vix punctulato, foveis posticis

fere nullis; elytris sat zequaliter sat profunde striatis, striis

parum manifeste punctulatis, stria quinta antice cum externis

conjuncta; tibiis anticis extus tridentatis. I 3+L;
1.

i I characters mentioned above it will be seen that this
species ; falls into the group called by Mr. Sloane (Proc. L.

mp

other strie), by the almost complete absence of elongate foveæ
near the 3 hos pronotum, and by its more convex eyes.
From the s 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 Koc

C. Adelai ide, Blackb. I ies this Dopo of mentioning
that this insect appears to me to be mo that Mr. eoe
identifies with C. Siruta Pate. Me oane (/.c.) gives
reasons for thinking that obliquata is Funded on an insect =

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ei Segen deni ien by its author's description, —reasons.
b the whole conclusive,—and therefore
c. "Adelaide indt be ee I think, as a synonym of obliquata.

CYLCOTHORAX.
C. ad C Blackb. Mr. Sloane in a recent valuable paper
(P.L.S., N.S.W., 1899, p. 563) discusses the relation of this

insect to his new species C. cordicollis, and mentions my having

half their length so that s Aree the segment is in
front of the middle even of the par t with curved sides, whereas

in peryphoides the dotresponding part of the lateral Putney is an

wider and tesi erh robust-looking.

LAMELLICORNES.
CEPHALODESMIUS.

a
Š

nor, 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 paalo ante
medium et sat longe ne medium perspicue angulatis (inter

sulcatis (ut C. a rmigeri, Westw., ERS). setis brevibus
crassis ferrugineis sparsim vest itis

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Maris pygidio sat convexo, opaco (apice anguste nitido), minus
perspicue nn setis ut elytra vestitis ; ; tibiis posticis
manifeste flex

Femin: pygidio latos ut maris sculpturato et vestito, es
postiea nitida in medio retrorsum me oeg ep
tibiis posticis haud flexuosis. Long.,

Closely allied to C. armiger, Westw., but a ven rm with
the clypeal teeth shorter, and having the outline of the prothorax
notably different. The lateral margin of that segment runs from

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 bee base. = outline ‚between the front

the clypeal structure altogether peculiar, and Jaticollis, Pasc.
(which is very slightly described) is stated to be much larger than
the insect before me (long., 7 L) with the prothorax wider than
the elytra (in the present insect it is measurement slightly
ee than the elytra), n it is implied that the prothorax

s of the same shape as in ar

N.S. ee Richmond R (simt by Mr. Lea).

C. armiger, Westw. The male of this species has the hind
tibize watery 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 minor a sma l triangular space in the middle

minor it is acu
LABROMA.

L. horrens, Shp. Mr. Lea has recently sent to me for =.
fication a mea of this insect. Dr. Sharp (Rev. and Mag.
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
o those of Cephalodesmius, to which genus it is very close.

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PLATYPHYMATIA.
S. squalidus, Macl. Among some specimens sent to me b
Mr. Cowley which agree very well with Sir W. Macleay’s

&c., except in the anterior elevation of its prothorax being much
less strong, its pygidium notably less gibbose, and its hind
femora unarmed.
OCNODUS.
0. mrs sp. nov. Ferrugineus, clypeo picescenti, antennarum
a dilutiori ; nitidus; fortiter punctulatus, elytrorum

parum angus s
poe parang lateribus leviter rotundatis, basi vix lobata ;
elytris obsolete tricostatis, haud setosis ; tibiis anticis extus
Pius Long., 44 1.; lat., 211.

Differs from Q. spinicollis Blackb., and fallax, Blackb., inter
alia by ida bed hind angles of its prothorax, from O. decipiens,
Burm., and ferrugineus, Blackb., by the absence of set on the
upper surface, and from lu ugubris, Blackb., by the very much less
close puneturation of its pronotum. The upper margin of the
labrum is distant from that of the clypeus (as in O. fallax).
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
ite confert

te co
rugulose, prothorace sparsius sat fortiter, elytris insequaliter
, puncturis sat grossis et aliis minoribus ineequaliter
* . - . l

fortiter reflexo antice late rotundato, sutu a clypeali minus
distineta ; prothorace quam bingo fere ane latiori, antice
in g

aru
circiter 4 instructis, his quam interspatia magis exces
punctulatis ; tibiis anticis extus 3-dentatis; labro clypeum

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haud superanti; antennis 9-articulatis ; ; coxis posticis quam
metasternum multo brevioribus ; unguiculis —
pure basali quam apicalis vix longiori. Long.

241.

An extremely distinct species notable for the apical piece of

Heteronyx, to which this species belongs (ELS; N.S.W., 1891,
pp. 488-9) it falls beside A. Froggatti, Macl., from which it
differs inter alia by the uniformly close rugulosity of its head.
S.A.; taken by Herr Koch near Lyndhur
ANACHEIROTUS (gen. nov. dig h
Mas? Mentum quam latius longius, antice parum emarginatum ;
palpi labiales breves, articulo ultimo obconico; palpi

valde transversum, late leviter ae, vix promi dpt n
a clypei parte antica (hac fere ut Haplopsis subtus retrorsum
obliquum) bene disereta ; oculi magni = fogs! granulati,

antice a cantho profunde incisi; an æ (speciei pe
9-articulatze, clava 3- articulata articulis poma ntibus 4
junctis longitudine sat ali; clypeus supra antice dre

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modo striata (atria bere excepta) ; Hep ros extus
obtuse leviter tridentatz, posticis modice f
Haplopsis l'ineoligere, Blanch.) sed pone ch wen
transversim carinatis; tarsi breves robusti (quam
parum longiores); unguiculi valde bifidi ; ani sat libre;
cox: postice quam metasternum parum bre ores.

The small Zumellicorn for which I propose X new generic

eis rient oa there the resemb ves ce ends. Its M mum
are those of a Heteronyx but its mouth organs and clypeus

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(especially its extremely narrow,—almost linear, —non- -prominent
labrum) separate it widely from Heteronyx. In my tabulation of
the Australian Sericoid 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 ^ age the
following must be substituted for line 25 on page

FF. a T notabl

Labrum Grass one and prominent ... Heteronyx
rum extremely narrow an t prominent ... Anacheirotus.
A. inornatus, sp. nov. Tot Selle testaceus ; supra sparsim
breviter pubescens, lbs longe ciliatis ; sat nitidus ;

punctulatis ; clypei lateribus ante oculos fortiter angulatis ;
pronoto transverso, antice parum angustato, lateribus
.leviter rotundatis, angulis anticis leviter acutis posticis
rotundatis. Long., 2 £1; lat., 11
The clypeal canthus cuts tg 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
S. 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

pygidio ad latera paullo magis perspicue punctulato; clypeo
antice sat fortiter elevato-reflexo, rotundato ; antennarum

cem

junetim late rotundatis; mesosterni processu elongato,

acuto; tibiis anticis externe 3- dentatis, dentibos apicalibus

2 approximatis inter se, dente 3° (hoc paullo ante tibiam

mediam sito) subobsoleto ; unguibus ad apicem acutis haud
fissis. Long., 63 1.; lat., 3i

This species is the smallest Anoplognathus yet described, being

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a little smaller than A. abnormis, Macl, but otherwise does not
appear to differ from its typical congeners, either structur rally or
in facies. In Sir W. Macleay's grouping of the Anoplognathi
(Tr. E.S., N.S. W, IL, 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.
. Queensland ; Mr. nch.

. BUPRESTIDE.
STIGMODERA.
In the Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg. 1898, there is a lengthy paper

by M. Kerremans containing descriptions of a large number o
new Buprestide, chiefly from Australia, Having recently been

late work somewhat closely as far as concerns the
genus es and in the following notes I record the result,
and add some remarks on certain other Stigmodere, together
with the Bestie of "ie new species.

S. triangulosa, Kerr. (l.e.)—terre-regine, Blackb. (Tr. Roy
Soc., S.A., 1893, p. 295). It seems to me doubtful whether both
these names will ok have to be dropped in favor of S. uc
Macl. (Trans. Ent. Soc., N.S.W., I., p. 24)—a name t
applied to an insect which ( judged by the een" nie
well be a variety of the species I ee subsequently M.

iMt "with its ei a mere variety.

S. sensitiva, Kerr. (1.c.)— S. vietoriensis, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. S.,
S.A., 1890, p. 152).

S. "laudabilis, Kore: (Le.) Judging by the description I should
say this insect is 8. Skuse, Blackb. (Tr. Roy. S., S.A., 1892,
p. 46).

S. veraz, Kerr. (l.e.). This species must be very close to (if not
ential with) S. Mastersi, Macl. (Tr. Ent. Soc., N.S.W., II,
45).

E" colorata, Kerr, (Lc.) nom. prwocc. (Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc.,
Lond., 1847, p. 283). I pr opose the name duleis for this hand-
some «eee of which there is a fine example in the S.A.
Museum

: minata, Kerr. (l.c.). This species seems to be without
doubt identical with S. acutipennis, Thoms.

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S. placens, Kerr (l.c. k Er REN identical with S. cara, Blackb.
(Tr. Roy. Soc., S. A., 18 216).

S. vigilans, "Kerr. (le). "a have. before me specimens from
Victoria (M. Kerremans’ locality) which agree very well with
the description of this species. They Rubens to me, however, to
be merely a variety of S. rectifasciata, Sau

S. consularis, Kerr. (1.c.).— S. ris Blackb. (Tr. Roy.

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E ‘addenda, Kerr. (l.e.). I can find nothing in the description
of this insect to distinguish it from 8. pollidipennis, Blackb. (Tr.
Roy. Soc., S.A., 1890, p. 154). pur ow moreover, is a nom.
preeoce. (Thoms. Typ. Bupr., 1878,

S. bucolica, Kerr. (l.e.). The en of this He gi does not.
eo any difference from S. Sieboldi, L. an

S. tacifa, Kerr. 1.e.). ed habitat of M spe cies is given
ately as “Australia” I have examples from Eyre’s Peninsula
of a Stigmodera that qae eb well with the description, and
which I have regarded doubtfu liy as a variety w = Barth Guer.
but on reconsideration I think it is a good spec

S. ocularis, Kerr. (l.e.). I cannot find odios i in the descrip-
tion of this insect to DAMES it from S. Kepler. Thoms.

S. munsueta, Kerr. (l.e.) abitat given is merely “Aus-
tralia.” I have specimens ru W. Australia Which fit the
description very s an.

. erocipennis, Hope (Bupr., p. 6). This species seems to z
generally regarded as TER, with S. rufipennis, Kirby.
: rs, however, to me to be more probably the Allied
d.

aun

S. dawsonensis, Blackb. In Tr. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1892, p. 220,

D expressed a doubt whether this might not prove to be an

am een of S. lilliputana, Thoms. It is, however, a good
spec

s. tasmaniea, Kerr. (C.R. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1890, p. 2). This

insect is certai inly I think one of the in numerable 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 localitie es in Southern Australia. Lightly

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

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the median fascia becoming more or less wider than in the type.
These last-named examples agree with the description of
tasmanica in having the elytra "dark violaceous with three pale

asciæ. I have specimens of the above forms taken in company
Sen promiscuously, from Tasmania as well as S. Australia,
Vietoria, and Southern N.S. Wales. Whether this insect is
identical with S. Mitehelli, 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 ju and Hope mentions a fovea on the
pronotum near the hind angle which is not to be found in the
present insect. The bh of S. Mitehelli was from W. Australia,
and I have not seen S. Stricklandi or anything like it from that
colony. S. Stricklandi may be distinguished from all the other
hitherto fide ii^ 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 coxze), elytra having transverse
zones of dark and pale colouring (more than two zones pale, the

78 NK ME Thoms. This insect is very near Stricklandi,
but is a good species, differing by, inter alia, its strongly costate
elytral interstices and stro ong sutural spine at the apex of its
elytra, as well as in the colouring of its prothorax. T have a fine
example of it in my collection, but do not know its exact habitat,
which seems to have been unknown to M. Meque also ; there
is an example also in the S.A. Museum marked * W.A.?

S. Karatte, Blackb. In Tr. Roy. Soc., S.A., 1890, pp. 149-50,
I pointed out the distinctions of this species from S. Stricklandi
(which I called §. Mitchelli on Saunders’ authority, though
now doubt the identity.) If S. Mitchelli be distinct from 5S.
Stricklandi, Karatte is still distinct from Mitchelli, being very
differently marked and coloured from the type and (even i
Mitchelli 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 !

rugosipennis, Thoms., Arch. Ent., 1857, p. 111. This seems
to be cle early a synoym of S. obscuripennis, Mann. Bull. Mosc.,
1837, p. 32. I believe this synonymy has hitherto escaped |
Bess
. Carpentarie, Blackb. This seems to be the insect referred
to by Mr. Waterhouse (Ann. Nat. Hist. (s) VII.] as a local form

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of a specimen previously mentioned by him as a var. of S.
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. viridicincta, as it differs not
only in eolouring and pattern (which are very widely distinct)
ut in numerous other characters also, ¢.g., its prothorax notably
more strongly transverse, the stris of its elytra more closely
punctured, the extero-apieal tooth of its elytra less acute.

ope.
cannot find any difference at all in the two descriptions indicating
that they are not founded on one and the same species. Hope,

va
character, and I can find no other to fall back upon. he
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 oceur in * Australia," without the mention of any more
exact habitat. I have seen an example in the collection of M
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 as a substitute for the nom. proce.
celestis, Kerr. I, however, had in 1890 (Tr. R.S., S.A., p. 148)
proposed the name stillata for it

"

of each e o
5. flavescens is described as having the apex of each elytron
bidentate. Unless Thomson's description is actually incorrect

S. capucina, Blackb. I find that this is a nom. pr:wocc. 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

ina.
. carinata, Macl. M. Kerremans (Mem. Soc. Ent., Belg.,
1892, p. 145) gives this name as a synonym of S. plagiata, Gory.

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I have before me several examples of Macleay's iusect, and am
inclined to think them distinct from plagiata though undoubtedly

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 dade impressed.
S. engen sp. Sat elongata; minus lata; pone
nediu ı minus fortiter dilatata ; sat nitida ; supra glabra,

xe)
macula communi preapicali (hac formam variabili) cum
fascia mediana secundum suturam connexa vel haud

asin aoe east is omnibus acutis, bas sat „fortiter

mee crenulatis. Long., 6—8} l.; lat., 24 3 l.

b

most distinctive character of this species consists in the
very ee colouring and seulpture of the prothorax. Th
disc is occupied by a large violaceo (whieh, however, does

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los
pattern on the enit (apart from colour) resembles amend that

and preapical spot ito feste. In some specimens, however,

shape of the common preapical spot varies from circular to semi-
circular.
W. Australia (taken near Cue s ne Ellershaw).
uadrifasciata, Saund. I with a few specimens

wW
(unknown to me by name) near the Cecilia Creek. It is a
variable species, both the basal and subapical fascie of the elytra

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

colouring of the en is either sexual or occasiona
S. rm sp. n Modice elongata, minus convexa, pone
ice iia; sat nitida ; supra glabra, subtus

— nonnullis fere confluentibus), fasciam postmedianam
integram eum macula postbasali mediana anguste in sutura
nn et maculam — communem subtriangularem
(hac cum fascia postmediana ste in sutura connexa et
ad pian. summam dilatata)], qae pedibusque vivlaceis,
abdomine rubro ad basin zenescenti ; Bor nis sat brevi, cre rebr re

longiori we postice quam antice) ot 12 id T latiori, debts
a in medi

4T

In one of the two specimens before me the lateral two of the
three postbasal elytral spots are widely separated. from the

in one specimen than the other; it crosses the elytra at right
angles to the suture and E that sense is straight, but) its
margins are sinuous. Among the species having the head and

— size not less Mw E l. nor more than 911, dies shed
acuminate at the
. Australia ; a to me by Mr. French.

S. insignis, Blackb. In the diagnosis of this species (Tr. Roy.

Kun S.A., 1892, p. 217, line 3 of the diagnosis) “ante basin"

uld be es apicem.” “Ante basin” being of course non-
Ee and the term “subapical” in the remarks following the
diagnosis dd 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 apsus calami, but it is better
to draw attention to it here.

S. filiformis, Blackb. In the diagnosis of this species (Tr. Ro
Boc, S.A., 1892, p. 218, line 8) for “suture” read FOEL
margin.”

S. cin eim Blackb. are a Kerr., nom. proce). “ Aus-
tralia” is the habitat attributed to this species. I have an
example bs W. Australia.

S. obesi pies ROM (Typ. Bupr., APP. L, 1879, p. 32), is
clearly a synonym of S. Saundersi, Wate h. (Ann. NH, 1876,
p. eas This sv x Abu has not been Bore: itn recorded.

S. flavipennis, Géhin. My collection and that of the S.A.
Museum contain specimens of what I take to be this insect.

differ by the presence of long white hairs on their he aud
thickly thin’ 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

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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

cause 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

posterieurs des segm abdominaux ” are of a beautiful green
olour tral segments of the specimens before are
i ea Non vae es the SION one, puse giae pm

of Géhin's "D is smaller than Yarrelli (Long
notably less narrow and elongate. Its under surface and legs are
considerably more closely punctalate, its sterna quite densely
clothed with long white hairs. Its head is pilose, the sutura!
' apex of its elytra bears a distinct Kahn 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 Yarrelli except on the elytra where they are quite
different. The elytra vary from uniform reddish testaceous

i i i All

(except the extreme base) to a form in which re is à sm
common sutural cyaneous spot a little behind the scutellum, a
an ts placed transversely um on each

Saunders, Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1868, P. 32), and in exa les in
my collection the. apex of the elytra i is simply rounded, while in
other specimens before me (otherwise indistinguishable) apex

s elegans, Géhin. This insect (referred to Be as possibly
identical with NDS ga Géhin) is more probably, I think, a
distinct species that I have not seen. I cannot understand its
being called a variety of Yarrelli 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 difti-
mr of supposing it to be Yarrelli. Its author mentions having

a good many specimens and the varieties he indicates are

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still less than the type like Yarrelli. Its markings come nearer
those of 8. b ifasciata, Saund., than of any other Stigmodera
known to me, but it is certainly not that species.

EUCNEMIDE.
NEOLYCAON (gen. nov.)

I propose this name as a substitute for Zycaon, Bonvouloir
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1875), my tiation having been called by
A. T 8. Hall, M.A. (of Melbourne University) to its being a

om. pra@nce. in Zoology, owing to its use for Mammalia by

Bos (I see Scudder gives it “Smith ”)in 182 »

ELATERIDZE.

Victorie, Cand. In a Ua N.S.W., 1891, p. 508, I
M attributed to this species an insect occurring near
Melbourne, the doubt arising from its antenn: being testaceous

sent me a specimen as Ne Vietorie, which is identical with the

insect I called ipa the n

L. Farinensis, sp. n pt latus; sat opacus ; piceo-ferrugineus,
prono

vix latiori, sat vale er convexo (a latere viso), lateribus a
basi sat longe ultra medium leviter subsinuatim divergenti-
bus (hine ad inem fortiter convergentibus); elytris quam
prothorax ut 9 ad 5 longioribus, subobsolete punctulato-
striatis, interstitiis planis biseriatim (quam stris baud magis
subtiliter) punctulatis plus minusve distincte grarulatis vel
rugulosis,—epipleuris adversus abdominis basin recte

; i
sulcis ad -tarsos recipiendos in prosterno metasternoque sat
fortiter Fem peen nec (ut Z. caliginosi, Guer., sunt) bene
Ree Long., 22—31 l; lat., 1—1# 1.
A very ilio t little species; the following characters in
combination. distinguish it from all its described Australian

D

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than those of the interstices, antenn® of pale-ferruginous colour,

are, I think, L. duplex, Blackb., and Victorie, Cand., from both
which it differs inter EM by its colour and the strong rugulosity
of its elytral interstice
S.A.; Lake Eyre xeu ; taken by Herr Koch at Lyndhurst,
-near Farina.
RHIPIDOCERIDE.
ENNOMETES.

Er ice fi ) 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 me of Pascoe’s genus Hnnometes
(which seems to me w atio ep ting considered really distinct
from Callirrhipis). I can find no character to distinguish as
species E. Lacordairei, Pasc., and C. ruficornis, Gray, nor does
the insect before me diffe r from either description except in being
somewhat larger than the specimen described 7 ea (Gray

oes not mention the size of his species). As Pascoe makes no
reference to C. ruficornis it seems not unlikely that » Minh ie
it, and I suspect that Callirrhipis ruficornis and Ennometes

acordairei are identical, in which case the insect must stand as
Ennometes ruficornis, Gra

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. Hethen mentions what he calls the ** common form" which
he says has the prothorax spotted not a. clothed) with
white pubescence as being in his opinion a variety of mystacına.
I have before me specimens of typical ee from N. Queens-
land and also examples with spotted prothorax from Tasmania,
Victoria, and S. Australia. These do not appear to differ inter se

ti
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).

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MALACODERMIDÆ.
TRICHALUS.

n Tr.R.S., S.A., 1894, I expressed the opinion that the genus
T inis cannot be maintained as distinct from Metriorrhynchus.
In Proc.L.S., 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 Z'richalus
becoming obsolete at a short distance behind the base, while in
Metriorrhynchus it is similar to the other costs). I think there
is something to be id in favour of that N as both
orms are very numerous in Australia, and to treat them as
generically distinct Hee simplifies the task of identifying
and describing them. Accepting the name Z'richalus on the
NOS grounds, I offer the following notes.
T. (Metriorrhynchus) semicostatus, Blackb. Trichalus oog
regarde d as a genus this species must be referred
T. Raymondi, Lea, must be somewhat close to it, and was tas en
in the same region (the Australian Alps). Probably however it
is distinct, as Raymondi is said to have the median line of the
head distinct, the antenn 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 antenne of the male would certainly reach back to the
middle of the elytra and the rostrum is entirely black. If the
two Voies should prove to refer to the same insect my name has
the priori
T. jo sp. nov. Niger, elytrorum apice testaceo ; rostro
nullo; prothoracis areola discoidali lanceolata bene definita :

bus), interstitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis a
continuis separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium sat
longioribus, sat ee articulo 4° quam 3s pnm
longiori. Long. 4} l; lat., 141.

Its colouring (entis y bleak us the usage. apex of the
elytra) inter alia distinguishes this species from ts 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., o£ 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

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Trichalus from Tasmania ne locality) which I believe to
be discoideus and from which the present insect differs inter alia
by the very much larger areol» into which its elytral interstices.
are divided ; they are like those of Metriorrhynchus ( Stadenus )
inquinulus, "Waterh

ictoria ; Dividing Range.

T. distinctus, Lea. The description of this resi 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. Mas. Totus niger; prothora
7-areolato ; rostro Fs nullo; elytris costis longitndinalibus

4 instructis; hs cost costu is transversis numerosis bene
definitis inter se juncte sunt, ita ut in utroque elytro areolæ
quadratæ longitudinaliter 5-seriatim positæ sunt; antennis
corporis dimidio longitudine sat æqualibus, sat fortiter
compressis, articulis omnibus (basali 2° que exceptis) quam
latioribus plus PEE longioribus, articulo 3° 4^ æquali.
Long., 33—4 1.; PEE
Although the ER is very short it cannot be called quite
ger ae the distance from the base of the antenne to the

length of one of the latter. The elytra have each four discal
cost without any trace of intermediate elevated longitudinal

conspicuous. This sculpture is ee Bh of Mr. Waterhouse's
genus oa but the costule connecting the elytral cost are
if

in any case Xylobanus 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.

Y. s Fab. Fem. Totus niger; prothorace 7-areolato
rostro fere nullo ; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus

4 instructis, interstitiis biseriatim indistincte areolatis (series

lineis indistincte, oregano magis distincte,—elevatis separan-

multo angustiori. Long., ia 1s i iL
Very near M. hemorrhoidalis, d a ae I should be dis-

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PE to consider it a colour var. with the elytral sculpture acci-
dentally wanting in distinctness were it not for the very evident

cannot be much doubt of this Tasmanian Meisner being

identical with it I have thought it desirable to describe it fully.
mania.

M. cliens, sp. nov. Fem. M. clientulo, Waterh., affinis; niger,
in elytrorum partibus tribus anticis ruber; prothorace 5-
àreolato ; rostro nullo; elytris costis ARSTE dis-
coidalibus 4 instructis. (his inter se sat æqualibus), inter-
stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus elevatis
separantur), scu ptura basin—et præsertim apicem—versus
quam in medio magis pers Ped — quam Base:

a vix longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis 4°
— 9? quam longioribus sat tioribus tee 3? quam 4" sat
Wale

Easily distinguishable from most 5 its congeners by the surface

antero-lateral ones are coarsely punctulate. Differs from
M. clientulus, Waterh., inter ^a by the four principal eli cuta
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 (tibie anticæ longi-

interstitiis biseriatim perspicue et regulariter areolati
(series lineis subtiiibus elevatis ei definitis separantur);
antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, sat
fortiter TR articulis 3°—10° TR flabellatis, flabellis
haud serratis ea M. gigantis, Blackb. , sunt), articuli 3'
flabello ultra ation! 5' basin producto. Long., 71.3 lat., 121
The long slender rami into which the antennal ida ot the
male are produced feti this spain is from all the other

dE of the elytral costs to become feebler towards the apex,
the narrower prothorax (especially in proportion to the width of

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the head), and the non-serrate outline of er AMD rami. The
antenn:e resemble those of M. cinctus, Wat
N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Froggatt near ua (His. No. 44.)
M. miles, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytris rufis; prothorace
7-areolato ; rostro fere nullo ; elytris ace longitudinalibus
discoidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat ualibus), inter-
stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus distinctis,
is basin versus quam cost:z 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., 5 1.; lat., 141.
Thi ould be reckoned, I think, by Mr. S VEERA a
true Sat oitighcien. It differs from ail the species resembling
it in respect of colour (except rufipennis, Fab., and brevirostris,
aterh.) 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
antennæ, 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 cost.

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. Ni er, prothoracis elytrorumque
lateribus anguste, et horum apice sat late, rufis ; rostro fere

stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus sat mani-

festis separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium vix

brevioribus, fortiter compressis, articulis. 3°—10° quam

ee vix latioribus, 3° 4° que longitudine sat :equali-
; k ate

entirely black. fa colour ames in the red edging g of its pro-
thorax), ime ws un elytral sculpture, remarkably like the
insect that Mr. Wa use described as M. inguinulus, but
m ren (on the we fe of its peculiar prothoracic areolation)

in his genus Stadenus. According to Mr. Waterhouse’s

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arrangement of the Australian Zyeides this is a true
Metriorrhynehus. |

Victoria; Dividing Range.

M. paradova sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytrorum apice sat late et
gine externo (parte antica excepta) anguste rufis; pro
theses T-areolato ; rostro nullo; elytris costis longitudinali-
bus discoidalibus 4 (his inter se sequalibus) instructis, costis
lineis recte transversis (his ut cost »qualiter elevatis) con-
junetis ; antennis s 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 wqualibus modice serratis. Long., 41;

lat., 12 1.

The well defined seven areolw of the prothorax together with
the remarkable SUN sculpture render this species eas
recognise. It does not appear to fall into aay of the subgenera
that Mr. Watcmousr has formed at the expense of M
Each longitudinal costa on the elytra is connected with that next
to it by a regular series of perfectly transverse short costze of i
same elevation as the longitudinal costi, and there is no trac
whatever of intermediate longitudinal lines. Mr. Wa use
would perhaps place this insect in his genus Aylobanus.

Victoria; Dividing Range.

M. er emita, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, prothoracis lateribus mar-
gineque antico et elytrorum sutura (anguste) m Sdn cm
( sat late) apiceque (vix in parte elytrorum septima
rufis; rostro latiori quam longiori; prothorace Calan:
elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 (his fortiter
cariniformibus inter se zqualibus) instructis, interstitiis
biseriatim Picea (quam M. erythropteri, Er., manifeste
minus gro presertim in parte mediana ; ; series lineis
subtilibus dotata sat continue separantur); antenn is quam
cor ire ge paullo longioribus, sat forti er compressis,

culo 3? quam 4** vix longiori, articu lis 3°—10° sat
irre serratis parte producta quam articuli pars cetera
parum

Fem. antennis minus fortiter serratis. Long., 5—64 1.; lat.,

12—21.

Rather closely allied to M. 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 costæ ;
from the latter by inter alia the discoidal costæ of the elytra
being similar inter se and the structure of the antenne. r
is evidently something wrong in the numbering of the joints in
the description of the antennæ of marginipennis of which it is

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stated that the “second joint is concealed and the third slightly
longer than the second, second to tenth subequal, eleventh
I suspect this means that the fourth is slightly

species before me. The colourin
in all the examples I have seen) also differs from that of the tw
species with which I am comparing it, the black discal patch on
the elytra Sienna from the inner margin of the external

while those of Zineatus (male,— not figured by Waterhouse) are
like Mr. Waterhouse's figure of the antenn® of Trichalus
Jlavopictus, Waterh.

Victoria; Dividin

M. rufipennis, Fab. I fia vd little doubt that Mr. Waterhouse is
right in thinking (tho ough he is not very confident on the point)
that his salebrosum is identical with Fabricius' speci

M. marginatus, Er. T should say there is no RR that
M. hemorrhoidalis, Waterh., is identical with this species. I
cannot however agree with Mn Waterhouse (Typ. Br. Mus., Lyc.)
that his this rem be a colour var. of. rufipennis, Fab.
The two are aiii closely allied apart from colour ; but
there is à very marked difference in the antennæ, the pr roduced
— of each joint beginning with the sixth being in rufipen

Er much more slender than in hemorrhoidalis pe marginatus,
r

CALOCHROMUS.
C. cucullatus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus; modice convexus; sat
nitidus (elytris exceptis); elytris pubescentibus; niger,
el

prothorace fortiter transverso, antice parum angustato,
lateribus modice arcuatis, angulis anticis valde obtusis
postieis (superne visis) fere rotundatis, disco medio profunde
need sulcato, sulci lateribus valde gibbis (pre-

rtim postice), disci parte postero-externa valde obtuse
meh basi parum manifeste 'bisitnate ; elytris costis

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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 es seg-
mento ventrali penultimo i in medio emargin

Femins clypeo antice minus profunde A or processu inter-
medio nec spiniformi nec erecto; femoribus simplicibus; seg-
mento ventrali penultimo haud emarginato. Long., 44—54 l.: i;
lat., 21.
Allied to C. nodicollis, Bourg., but differing from it, inter alia,

by the markings of the elytra much more widely than my obser-

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

© present species they are excessively finely granulated,—
scarcely more than coriaceous, and nodicollis is said “to a casual
inspection to remarkably recall C. scutellaris, Er.,” whereas the
present insect is a much more robust species of ehr
wider form with very much longer antennx. e measurements
of C. nodicollis make it fully three times as long as wide;

the remarkable clypeal sexual characters of this spec me
have the prothorax bicolorous (very remarkably so in C. Poesie
a, and pilosicornis, Lea, in which the prothorax is said to be
"yellow tinged with red," and those having a black posten
(even if the clypeal sexual characters have mere over-
looked in the descriptions, —
that I have not seen Fre strongly marked differences that
make Pus agii very dist
Vie ; Dividing Ra we
c. E sp. Si Proecedenti (C. cucullato) affinis ; differt
elytrorum parte communi nigra antice an, ultra costam
primam haud extensa) sat longe ante medium dilatata (sicut

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hinc 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). Long., 541; lat., 141.

Apart from the characters noted above the description of
C. cucullata is an accurate description of M insect, and therefore
need not be repeated. The markings o e elytra are identi €
in all the specimens that I have seen. The ; di fference in the for
of the erm of the prothorax furnishes a satisfactory parnai
charact

8. A Adelaide District.

. 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 subqua adrato, longitudinaliter béihiali-
ro

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rectis ; elytris striatis, interstitiis angustis leviter convexis
(alternis quam cetera vix ma
corporis imidium vix longioribus, modice compressis,
articulis 3° 4° que longitudine sat æqualibus. `
Maris segmento ventrali septimo profunde emarginato.
Femin; segmento ventrali se ptimo profunde ere ad basin
reife aedi ciet et ad apicem emarginato. Long., 41.;.
h 12 l.
The Biere slight exsertion of the head in this species
together with the presence of a distinet rostrum and the scarcely
noticeable dilatation of the front femora in the male renders this

ne female I am not pe sure of there seven segments but
pr y is an extremely short banal one which would be
vi edn if the ind body were broken he sculpture of

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Calochromus that I have seen; a thick wheal-like edging com-

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 ou 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
crebre sat sequaliter punctulato, inter oeulos quam anten-

nigro setosis, posticorum articulo basali quam 4" haud multo
longiori; abdomine modice punctulato et longitudinalite
rugato. Long., 94 1.; lat., 441.

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the much shorter basal joint of its hind tarsi. I am doubtful of

may be thus distinguished :—
J. Prothorax twice (or all van twice) as wide as long.
K. geh pain) sigte, not enfeebled behind [cupreus, Fab. ]
KK. Seriate niet Ecol of elytra HE very
feeble r apex sc “Rochi, Blackb.
S. Australia ; Basin of Lake Eyre ; sent by Herr Max Koch.
. gr Viikiseo nis, Blackb. (Tr. R.S., S.A., 1899, p. 45). The
re of this species is N.W, Australia
: oe Blackb. (/.c., p. 48). The habitat of this species is
N. Queensland.

RHIPIDOPHORID.
EVANIOCERA
E. peremit sp. nov. Mas. Picea, elytris pe tpn minus
ida; confertim subtiliter punctulata ; cinereo-pubescens

dni in elytris); oculis RU su HMM inet (inter-
spatio quam antennarum articuli basalis longitudo parum
latiori separatis); antennarum articulis 1° compresso

ar 8

ramus articuli 4' a ramo articuli 5' remoto); prothorace

conico, basi bisinuata, lateribus (superne visis) vix sinuatis;

elytris postice minus angustat

Feminz antennarum articulis (basalibus ; exceptis) sat fortiter
serratis. Lon $1; lat, I—141.

Closely allied to E. Meyricki, Blackb., with similar iyen

bescenc

t
elongate and havi sterior angles less strongly directed hind-
Bue: The other previously described species having nine
nal 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
Marcia than that of Meyricki, a much more elongate prothorax,

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&c.; while in pe: thensis, 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 oe vv not exactly
species. The two species of the genus that have not to
described, are @erstäckeri, Macl., and Garoto [Mach 1J, —
which are so differently coloured. that ey are not at al
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 Evaniocera en r. Roy. Soc., 8.A.,
1899, p. 52) this species will stand Br A , perthensis, Blackb.,
from which it mey be distinguished thus
C. Eyes divided P : a. interes Blackb..
CC. Eyes normally emarginate n: us DEE s, Blackb.
Victoria; in my collection; iie: in the feles ‘of Mr.
French.
E. perthensis, Bl:ckb. When I described n dir d. =
) I did n i t har

so that the insect has four eyes,—a character which may perha
have to be treated as generic eventually.
EMENADIA.
E. difficilis, Blackb. (Tr. R.S., S. A., 1899, p. 55). The habitat.
of this species is South Australia

CURCULIONIDA.

B. orchivora, Blackb. Sat lata; minus nitida; tj ge picea
(no orum exemplorum elytris atera rufescent-

strigato, scrobibus subtus conniventibus; oculis subtiliter
granulatis ; bises scapo oculum fere attingenti ; i er
i o 1

1
granulatis ; femoribus sat elongatis vix clavatis, dente parvo
armatis ; tibiarum unco apicali parvo horizontali ; unguiculis
V Mo, ad basin fere connatis. Long. (rostr. excl.),
141; 41
A very "€ inet species. It was bred in Sydney from the stems
"x a d. een Orchid (Dendrobium sp.) and sent to me by Mr.

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BRUCHIDE.
BRUCHUS.
B. lyndhurstensis, sp. nov. Rufo-castaneus, capite antennis
apicem versus metasterno elytorum sutura maculisque

nonnullis lateralibus et tarsorum apice obseurioribus; —
pube ochracea et albida indeterminate variegatus ; subtus
eum pygidio sat dense albido-pubescens ; capite ariera
elongato minus lato (fere ut B. rufimanus, Schönh.) inter

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 (hac pube
subtili i flava i in funda vestita) impresso. Long., 1 1.; lat., .l.
Variat antennis minus obscuris, capite postice testaceo, elytris
utura et ad latera magis late obscuris, pygidio nigro-
maculato vel eue omnino nigro, femoribus posticis plus
minusve obscur
A most variable species, if I am right in ee S the speci-
mens before me (which were taken y 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 ofa
large shallow circular i is tege placed anteriorly, and having a
diameter equal to about thirds of the we of the segment
on the median line. lái some examples this mpression is more
sharply defined on the hind part of its outline hien in others, qp
in some its floor is covered with fine yellow pubescence, whic hi
wanting in others. I take these differences to be caused partly

tion of prothorax, &c., but not definitely triangular in any "d
men. In Mr. Lea's tabulation of Bruchi (Proc N.S.
DN » PP- 637-8) the place of this species is beside B. "perpastus,

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Central Australia; Oodnadatta, Lyndhurst (Koch), Leigh's
Creek,

B. Oodnadatte, sp. nov. Nigricans, antennis sordide testaceis

apicem versus vix infuscatis, pedibus testaceis, femoribus

(presertim posticis) plus minusve nigricantibus, elytris ad
a inusve distincte rufescentibus pra pube
nigricanti et albi ndeterminate variegatus, subtus cum

pygidio sat dense albido-pubescens ; femoribus posticis ante
apicem denticulo manifesto sed minuto armatis ; cetera u
B. 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 hi nd femora
and by the very much smaller fovea (which is elongate oval, not
cireular) on the basal ventral segment of the male. In some

eris there is an extremely well defined bright red apical spot.
n Mr. Lea's tabulation of Bruchi (loc. cit .) the place of this
Beh is beside diversipes, Lea, from which it differs inter alia
y the minute size of the tooth on its hind femora.
Central Australia.

larger insect from W. Australia, which he pea identifies
with it. I doubt the identity of the two, although I cannot find
any good structural character to distinguish them. Unfortunately

h l l

fovea, ind an examination of a male PONTEM from N.S.

segment

B. ouo DRE sp.n Niger, antennarum articulis basalitus 4,
rorum Pre apiceque et pedi (femorum basi et
tarsorum apice exceptis) rufo-testaceis ; supra pube albida et
testacea vel rufa variegatus; subtus ygidio minus dense
albido-pu ns; capite modice elongato, inter oculos
longitudinaliter carinato; oculis sat subtiliter granulatis ;
antennis sat elongatis, articulis 5 stis leviter
serratis; prothorace transversim trapezoidali antice minus
fortiter angustato, crebre subtiliter ruguloso, elytris sub-

fere ut
thorax asperis sed rege a subtiliter ; femoribus
posticis dente parvo acuto a
Maris segmen to basali conus nelle modo foveolato. Long.,
at., 2 ].

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Variable in the sagi: of the elytra. The — suture

e
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 any so as to give a
faintly striped appearance ; abraded examples have black elytra
ish 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
ing of a stem of

species stands beside B. despicatus, Lea, from which it differs
inter alia by the basal four (not three) goes of its antenn:e
testaceous and Der series of serrate joints beginning with the
fifth (not the four

S. Australia ; ek

B. fabe, Fab. I presume that abe eg which Mr. Tryon
reported (Tr. Nat. Hist. Ban Brisban l L)as B. obtectus,
ay, is this pene Mr. Tryon does eem say why he prefers
Say's name; it is to be noted however that it is later than that

B. pisi, Linu. In a note to his remarks on Bruchus (loc. cit.)

a mentions B. pisi (without an author's eg apparently as
the same species which in the note he calls py
B. persimulans, sp. nov. Niger, Sr "thia nonnullorum
emplorum articulos 6°—10° plus minusve infuscatos
prebentibus) pedibusque (horum femoribus posticis basin
versus et tarsorum articulo ultimo obscuris) testaceis, veda
rufis nigro-cinctis (apice rufo excepto); sat equaliter cine
pubescens ; antennarum articulis 4^— 10^ sat robustis leviter

subtiliter sculpturatis, vix asperis ; cetera ut B. quornensis.
g^

xcept in respect of the characters mentioned above, the
description of B quornensis applies to this species also. The

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colouring of the derm in the two insects is very similar, but the
pubescence of the elytra differs considerably, a fresh specimen of
i res

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 uris umi
from it by its longer antennz, black prothorax, as well as by t
presence of a tooth on the hind femora and the absence of aa
characters on the basal ventral segment. This species does not
fit into any of the groups in Mr. Lea’s poene not having its
prothorax and elytra either both red or both bla.
entral Australia ; Oodnadatta.

PHYTOPHAGA.
MEGASCELOIDES.

M. circumcinctus, sp. nov. Fem. Minus elongatus ; pubescen
piceus, antennarum basi capite prothorace antice iro
(marginibus totis anguste piceis exceptis) pedibusque rufis ;
capite brevi lato sat fortiter punctulato ; antennis filiformi-
bus quam corporis dimidium su ublongi ioribus ; ; prothorace

rectis, angulis anticis subdentiformibus ticis obtusis ;
e s er minus subtiliter erg lin
elevatis DB PR DRAN DUE circiter 3 instructis; femoribus
leviter incrassatis n $21; lat, 121 (vix >
The insect déooribed above has been in my collection for some
considerable time comen ” doubtfully as belonging >= the
Megascelides. Mr. French has recently sent me an insect closely

allied to it which being a male I can identify wei with
Mr. Jacoby’s genus Megasceloides (it is probably the typical
species); and by y comparing my speci ies with it I have re
myself that the former is a female of the same genus.

from the male in what are likely to be sexual characters by the
intermediate joints of its antenns scarcely dilated and its less
Strongly dilated femora. Specifically it poc fron M. a

numerous elevated lines on its elytra.

E

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EDUSA.

The following species while certainly, I think, a member of the
group Edusites, differs from typical members of the genus Edusa
by its unusually narrow parallel form and its entirely glabrous
upper surface. Five Edusoid 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. Thaumastomerus was unknown to Dr. Chapuis (as it is

ts place in Zdusa which (as Dr. Chapius cogat it) included

focis widely differing in superficial charact
E. angustula, sp. nov. Sat angusta, sat Saralisin ; supra glabra;
tus 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-

m

(his, in in prosterno visis, dentiformibus); elytris crebre punc-
- tulatis, apicem versus nonnihil punctulato-striatis, totis
fortiter rugatis; femoribus red eg nd hauo dentatis
sed subtus late subangulatim dilatatis. i, Bag $
In my tabulation of the species of rp (Tr. R. S., 8 SA, ane
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 Sis ix crs .. glabra
CC. Form narrowly parallel de sea on Ce
I have seen four examples of this REN among which I find
no a die: sexual To Probably they are all females.
W nt by Mr. Fre
RUPILIA.
R. aogais, sp nov. Ovata; mopa nitida; supra obscure
ns, capite antice antenn s (apice excepto)
kabay marginibus omnibus scutelloque plus minusve

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distincte rutescentibus; subtus obscure rufa, we
obscure ceruleo viridimicanti, eie piceis plus min

rufescentibus ; capite inter ennas longitadinaliter
excavato in s perspicue Mercer postice planato
sparsim sat grosse vix fortiter punctulato ; antennis robustis
minus elongatis, articulis 1° 3° 4° que — inter

ne et ret
sum convergentibus); elytris parum debacle haud
longitudinaliter impressis, crebre minus subtiliter subaspere
nec rugulose punctulatis; scutello lato, fere ut elytra
pun netulato
Maris elytris ultra segmentum ventrale penultimum atting-
entibus minus latis; femine segmenti penultimi medium

vix attingentibus sat Jatis. Long., 3—341.; lat., 12 1.—2 1].
Differs from R. ruficollis, Clk., inter vem by its much m

strongly transverse prothorax and its much longer aye.

E. viridi-enea, Clk., is not described in a man allow of

very satisfactory comparison, but the present species is ve
differently coloured, and the phrase “capite inter oculos

sculpture of the head of the present species. In AR. impressa,
lackb., and brevipennis, Blackb., inter alia multa, the océan
is very uch mo and less conspieuously punctulate.

inter alia, a less transverse prothorax ve width to its length
down the middle as 8 to 5) which is traversed by a very strong
and conspicuous transverse sulcus.

N. Queensland.

R. approximans, sp. Ovata; modiee nitida; obscure ruf-
escens, elytris obaeure cyaneis violaceo-tinctis ; capite spars-

crassato, lateribus (desuper visis) ab apice ultra medium
leviter subrecte (hinc ad basin valde br ) convergentibus ; :
elytris modice dehiscentibus, a basi retrorsu m breviter minus
perspicue impressis, confertim subtilius Bine ; scutello
modico.

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Maris antennis ultra elytra media Ls MAR, ; elytris
segmentum ventrale penultimum medium x ttingentibus.

Var. Syn, m. suturam versus NEN Long., 41—
54 1; lat., I.
Differs from pe description and figure of R. ruficollis, Cik.,

angulaticollis differs by, from rugulosa, Blackb., by its non
ame sculpture, from angulaticollis by its very different
antennæ, and from excelsa, Blac y the sculpture of its pro-
thorax. Te is near A. impressa, 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,

. In R. impressa there is a transverse ill-defined gibbosity on
the _prothor, but it is situated distinctly behind the front
ma

N. Eod.

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.E.
LIPERN

This name (which I used is a i; Coccinallid genus, Tr. R.S.,

S.A., 1888, p. 211) I find had been previously us used by Mr.

SULVANITE: A NEW MINERAL.
By G. A. GOYDER.
[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, = stated that they were obtained
from a new mine near the Burr

During the analysis for Bi I found that they contained
vanadium, and the eds ore wrote for further samples, which Mr.
Meylan promptly se

On examination das proved to consist of malachite, azurite,

vanadium ochre, quartz, caleite, gypsum, and a metallie mineral,
consisting pe d of copper, sulphur, and vanadium.
e 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 su die zu an is cru analysis in
detail, g the o figures were ig :—

N

d E 32 vaa Ht 38 duiphae 3 2644.
the balance being silica, lime, and a trace of iron

The ratio of copper to vanadium was confir med by a duplicate
analysis of a smaller sample by a different method of analysis.

The mineral was found to contain nc paca in the form of
sulphate, and on heating in a closed tube it gave off no sulphur,

V,S, in the sample analysed is 34 to L but an analysis of some
other specimens not so pure proved them to contain an oxidized

and as the mineral is not distinctly crystalline, and is penetrated
by oxidised products almost throughout, its physical properties
cannot be aceurately ascertained.

*Subsequent analyses show that the mineral is a sulpho-vanadate of
copper, 3 Cu,S, V,S,.

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The lustre appears sub-metallic, and n colour bronze, the

Rc gravity over 4, and the hardness
I can ascertain from the publientions to hand, there

is no rd of any unoxidized vanadium miner

Mr. Meylan has promised 2 send me some further
and should the mine be worked deep enough, some of the
unoxidised mineral may yet come to hand, in which case faithër
analyses will be made and the physical properties more aecurately
ascertained.

EVIDENCES OF ExTINCT GLACIAL ACTION IN
SOUTHERN YORKE’S PENINSULA.

By Warrer Howocnris, F.G.S.
[Read June 5, 1900.]

Glacial deposits have already been described in the Hay
tions of this Society as occurring o n the eastern and southern

m
present gulf occupies an eroded hollow or depression in what w.

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

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 sc
SOUTHERN Coasr.
Troubridge Hill.—The first locality visited was Troubridge
Hill, about ten miles from Edithburg, in a south-west direction,
vià Honiton. The sea-cliffs near the Hill are composed of cal-

fies its specific name, as it is mostly aggregated in clusters,
varying in size up to a foot in diameter.
The fo llowing is a section of the cliffs as seen at this spot :—
l. Recent — Travertine limestone i: 18 feet
ocene-—Fossiliferous (Fibularia gregata) limestone gon
3. Pre-Tertiary—Glacial till with erratics; thickness yon
unknown; height exposed above sea level

ih»

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yards in a very remarkable manner. The following two sections
can be seen on the same horizon within a distance of less than
one hundred yards :—
EASTERN SECTION.
1. Recent —Travertine limestone ».: 20 feet
ark-coloured cla is em P si
2. Pre-Tertiary | White and pink-coloured argillaceous
(Glacial)— | sands, base not exposed; thickness
above sea level M Se bos
' WESTERN SECTION.
Travertine limestone ... ve =
1. Recent— een sand rock, (?) raised beach
Travertine limestone ... in €
Dark to reddish clay ... ix s
2. Pre-Tertiary | White kaolinised clay with red patches,
(Glacial)—| angular grit and erratics ; thickness
above sea level a
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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

mbers e o

grained, pink-colored, porphyritic granite, end between tide
marks, measured fully twenty feet in diame
The Eocene beds are absent from this tds

Port Moorowie is situated on the southern coast about ten
miles shee -west of Yorketown, and about six miles west of
the glacial beds near Troubridge Hill, already described.

good exposure of boulder clay, carrying numerous erratics,
Rt 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 FREE TER and calcareous marls 2e. 15 feet
dish clay, with pipeclay bands ... 10 *"
Se White - to bluish clay, with dark-red
Glaci

mire rige above sea level ... 1l *
The boulder clay of this section shows a general we

to the beds of the same age observed on the coast further to

the east, and which have already been described. In the

lying clay by a bedding plane. I saw no stones in this upper
ayer, the absence of which may raise some doubt as to its

in whic no erratics are visible. I gs included the layer
uesti i i i
observations may show that it quus of dp roii material

Erratics of small to moderate size mmon on Abe
beach at Port Moorowie. At o en ps dm the jetty

a boulder of grey granite, with en crystals of orthoclase
giving it a porphyritic c N was observed, and measured
at seven feet by four fee

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NORTHERN Coast.
Point Turton.—An interesting geological po was found
at Point Turton, situated on the shores of Hardwicke Bay,
about six miles in a north- EAN Pe direction from EWR

geological formations separated by three lines of uncon
formability.
The following i is the order of occurrence:

I. Jt reves limestone, variable in thickhess
up to 20 feet

| Reddish, ` mottled clay, preserved i in

2. Miocene— eroded hollows of lower Tertiary
limestone ; thickness nil to.. s MAL

: Lua fEek- coloured fossiliferous limestone ; ;
9. Focene \ variable in thickness up t saat

: Boulder ciay, with an. er rratics ;

ie Pre-Tertiary | thickness unknown ; d sega above

won] low. wa ter : 15 «

The Miocene clay is best seen eue a pen Peut. a kuadro
ards 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 by the
eroding agents.

The Eocene i of the section is, as a whole, an ex-
tremely compact and pure carbonate of lime. It has been
subjected to coundi alteration and reconstruction in

situ, a secondary deposit of calcium carbonate having been
precipitated within the interstices of the re bed

into strong relief, can be seen. The great purity of the
stone makes it valuable as a fluxing agen

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 regen of the bed is evidently the result of suberial
waste that took place in pre-Tertiary times, before the ol
land Bard was submerged by the Eocene sea. The clay

, ex
below high-water mark, and even in that position it main-
ei a Food hard floor that can be walked over without pud

mfort.

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Immediately under the Tertiary limestone the clay is much
impregnated with dendritic mangin ese, and the upper por-

stone is seen to occur below the ferruginous £rust. Beneath
this iron-stained layer the clay is dark-colored in shades
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 jart
strongly striated or polished by ice action. The shingle of
the beach eae mainly of erratics that have been liberated

of boule peer as been A on ides
ihe north side of go ao cn in Section 200 (Hundred
of Moorowie), ad been excavated in this clay Abovt

mentioned a third erratic was found, being a close-grained
bluish quartzite, with polished face, and heavily serate
The outerop of boulder clay was followed across the road
dividing the Hundreds of Moorowie and Par. urlie, and
more granites were picked up in Section No. 23 of the
latter Hundred.
few small weathered pieces of Eocene limestone were
seen on the north flanks of Warooka Hill, but whether such
are the remains of a small outlier of rocks of this age in the

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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.

(b) Corney Point Road.—A large erratic occurs near the
main road from Warooka to Corney Point. Ft is situated on
the north side within about twent yard of t road in

is much greater. It is not a "gran nite roc ock” but a
colored, granular, lóra biendiè schist, having a close re-

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-
img, as it marks the most westerly point that I was able to

it
lagoons that are Ra tueféd over the southern portions of

a
are pneri of ac features Bet. with my
visit was on the north side of the ake, in Section No. 178

tains a group of twelve large pieces of pink-colored granite,
having but a slight elevation above the ordinary lev el The
group measures ten feet by six feet, and was probably only
one piece si sent but has split alone joint planes as the
result of weathering.

bout —€— yards to Pen westward of this erratic, other
two huge granite blocks can be seen standing in the mud of

€

some half dozen other AS boulders varying in size up
to several feet in dia er
A short distance furtaer. to the westward can be seen two

bon which is pida > its ale E only a ow
feet, is almost as large. Similar boulders of a smaller sie
are strewn in the vicinity. It must have been ice of grea
transporting power that could carry stones of such a size as
described.

The cliffs of the Lake near these erratics are about twenty
oe in Poir and consist intermittently of clay and sand

change from the one feature to us other is.

tt very ee; The clay is generally very compact,
grey in color, with red patches; whilst the dp 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 dan they rapidly alter from
the horizontal to nearly vertical direction, accompanied with
contortions

(d) M ken urlie Lagoon.—This is a long narrow lagoon
we Ep with the road between Yorketown and Port
Moorowie. he widest portion of the lagoon is at its sou-
then. ii 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 Station. accor sig about ten miles
north-west of Yorketown on the e 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 was |
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

o. 38, Hundred of Moorowie. Mr. Fowler describes it as

"red granite similar to the granite seen in the cliffs at Cape
Spencer he second of these boulders is described as
much pud than the one just referred to, estimated at five
feet by three feet, lying on the north side of a small lagoon.
in Section No. 37, about three-quarters of a mile from the

rst mentioned.

(f) Lagoon at Pentonvale Head Station.—Mr. Matthews, of
Yorketown, has a granite boulder in his yard that had been
brought from the above lagoon as an object of interest.

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locality is about three inte north-east of Yorketown. The
stone is not so coarse in the grain as many of the erratics of

block, as a whole, is now of a deep red color en penetrat-
ing iron stains. The mica constituent is Bioti
(g) Well-Sinking at Yorketown.—Sinking for water has been
extensively tried throughout the district with varying suc-
sess. All such sinkings have been in stiff clay, and I have
hat

ar as I could ascertain, was the clay bed penetrated to the
bed rock in these sinkings.

(h) Government Bore in Tocchi's Lagoon.—In 1890 the Go-
vernment put down a trial bore at the northern end of
Tocchis Lagoon, situated in Section No. 291, Hundred of
Melville, about a mile east of Yorketown. Through the
Pe ee of Mr. J. W. J Conservator of Water, l a

nabled to give nat TOONIDE particulars of the strata "passed
Krach $ in the bor

Tt. in.

Black mud spa ae Se o 21,9
Dark clay with gypsum ins ran 2 29 UU
Dark clay l er 2 ER!
Hard sandstone n Kar "e i - HU
Sandy clay n a Pe por Ue
Very hard blue rock ... a dE. m | i
Bore stopped at ... .905 5

e above sinking was ee T in he Balder clay of the
district and shows a local dave pant of, at least, something

over 300 ft. Work was stopped on meeting a hard rock.
which was penetrated to the extent of eleven inches. The

false impression that Aci: had been touched. The section
is, however, an extr mely interesting one, and supplies evi-

dence of the great ne e glacial deposits that occur over
the southern portions of the peninsula.

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CONCLUDING Remar
In the observations now detailed a very large area has been
added to the known extent of the extinct glacial field of
ot only be

ried across Gulf St. Vincent, but it is clear that out
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 co nclusion has been
forced upon me from the widely distributed proofs of ice
action on the northern = southern coasts as well as through-
out the inland districts. With the BERETA of a few out-

r important euis line has been supplied by these
aci E

tion inferior to the r Tert ere is, moreover,
clear proof of stratigraphical unconformability i in the eroded*
surface of the glacial clay on which the marine beds of the

be newer than a Cretaceous or Cretaceo-Eocen
The discovery of glacial clay inferior to the ee beds at
Troubridge Hill and Point Turton will contribute to the
correlation of beds of a bari character in other parts of the
colony. On the north side of the mouth of the Onka-

rney Point, where the metamorphie rocks rise above sea level,
i is a thin layer of Eocene limestone in a limited patch resting upon
the primary lacial clay is absent. At this elevation it may
have been originally a thin deposit, and Legs Bar easily denuded before the
bedrock sunk below Ae level of the Eocen

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paringa, a clay in all respects similar to the glacial clays of
southern Yorke's Peninsula, rises from beneath the fossili-

tation has hitherto bien felt in testing the beds to the
lacial h i

that they belong to the same aa

no reason dá conclude that the extent of the
glacial area in South Australia has even yet been fully -
determine he limits of the evidence on Yorke’s Penin-

e
further to the west. It is Hii directions that further
investigations should be adult 5 ;

acknowledgments are due to Mr. E. H. Matthews, of

^ a;
well, junr., Honit ; and Mr. William Fowler, Yararoo, for
information and aem facilities by which I was enabled to
utilise the short time at my disposal to the best advantage.

2n

: Geological Notes on the Cliffs separating Aldinga
ga Bays | a

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bs. t5 ee Wh. r3 wee E
MER. N

ee e

erreurs : New Micro-Lepidoptera, mostly from

Notes on a Collection of Bird Skins from.

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY of SOUTH AUSTRALIA,

VOL. XXIV., Part ll.

[With THREE PrATES.]

EDITED BY PROFESSOR R. TATE.

ISSUED DECEMBER, 1900.

Adelaide:
W. C. RIGBY, 74, KING WILLIAM STREET.

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 & oe E

35, Milk Street, Cheapside, London.”

SUPPLEMENTARY LisT OF PLANTS FROM MOUNT
LYNDHURST RUN.

By Max Koon.
[Read June 5, 1900.]

In my lists of plants collected on Mount Lyndhurst Run,
published i 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 a,

and Erodium cicutarium may be regarded as well establis

Most of the plants of this list were named by Prof. ei 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.

Crucifere.
*Erysimum lasiocarpum, F. v. Mueller.
M.

Lepidium leptopetalum, F. v.
Sisymbrium filifolium, F. v. M

Rutaceze.
Geijera parviflora (1, Lindley. Collected by W. Langley.

Zygophylle
*Zygophyllum crenatum, F. v. M. nese by J. Langley.
*Zygophyllum hybridum, Zat
is ii by J. Langley, Trinit
A— ae Kochii, 7' ate. "First seen by gley, y

The genus Zycie, had occupied my attention during
urn spring, for I noted in the preceding year various fo
ie m o me differen from those described in the

handbooks at my disposal. Fortunately, almost all known
my neighbourhood,

1899, pp. peti
: F

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In addition to these, the learned Professor admitted the
mi

Z. ammophilum ; leaflets elliptical to linear cuneate, entire ;
petals den, vamus 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 (?) ;
leaflets broadly cuneate, notched; petals yellow, stamens
eight, fruits truncate, rounded at the base, deeply angled ;

00
will be seen this form differs from the typical form in—

(1) Foliage—164 leaflets entire ... ... 457 leaflets notched
(2) er of corolla—164 white ... 457 yellow
(3 tamens—four ... oe gig! t

. on

(5) Form of seed—almost three angular... ER 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 humillimum.

Malvacez.

Plagianthus glomeratus, Bentham.
*Sida intricata, F. v. Muelle

Euphorbiacez.
Phyllanthus Gunnii, J. Hooker. A shrub.
N yllanthus rhytidospermus should be struck off
my list of 1898.
Chenopodiaceæ.
An examination of Prof. Tate’s Herbarium at the Univer-
sity has convinced i oe the following species in list 1898
should be struck o
Atriplex leptoca T np e M. cu bios I now assign
A. angulatum, i. as the correct n
Bassia booris, M whioh B. data. | seems to be a better
reference.

Amarantaceze.
Ptilotus Hoodii, F. V. Mueller.

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Leguminosze.

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, F. v. Mueller. This tree, or often shrubby tree,

called by ers eim. or by another tribe Wodnera, the
same as Acacia aneur
Both species are highly valuable .as fodder for cattle and
horses, and are often cut down for sheep in protracted
droughts.
Ficoideze.
ar leases Solander. Collected by W.
, Knob W
Add i oo P v. M. Theform with pink sepals, No.
‚is growing abundantly on the salt plains near Catt’s
and Publichouse Springs, north of Trinity Well.
Myrtaceze.
Melaleuca trichostachya, Lindley.
Melaleuca parviflora, Zindley. Black Teatree.
Loranthacez.

Loranthus exocarpi, Behr.
with yellow petals, and green at the summit, is

often found.

Composite.
* Aster decu urrens, Cunningham.
*Podocoma cuneifolia, R. Br., var. 348. Leaves pinnate, and
flowers much smaller than the i ac eh form.
* Podocoma ye R. Br., var. 476. s twice pinnate.

Minuriella annua, Tate. A: small a; irat found in horse
paddock of tlie * Village Well" on Mount Lyndhurst, but
later on frequently met with on pipeclay soils throughout
the district.

*Pterigeron abi Bentham.

Podolepis Siemssenii, F. v. Muel

Helipterum cerymbiflorum, Schlechtendal.

een —À DeCandolle.

Hel aetum, Bentham.

"Helle edd. deb cd Henckel.

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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.

oodeniaceze.
Scaevola humilis, R. Brown.

Convolvulaceze.
*Quscuta australis, R. Brown
Boragineze.
Heliotropium asperrimum, R. Br. Collected by W. Langley.

d setis
Cynanchum floribundum, A. Bro

Jasmineze.
Jasminum lineare, R. Br.

Solanaceze.
Solanum eremophilum, F. v. Mueller.

Lentibularines.
Utricularia dichotoma, Labillardiere. Collected by J. Langley
ublichouse Springs, *north of Trinity Well," growing
in Kati waters.
Myoporineze.
*Myoporum deserti, Cunningham. A shrub.
Myoporum platycarpum, A. Brown. Sandalwood. Aboriginal
name in the Dieyerie sp Yumburra
en Freelingi M. colonr variety; flowers
e typi dirat has a vender corolla. Found
» J. Langley near Trinity Well.
Juncacez.
Juncus bufonius, Linne.

Typ
Typha angustifolia, Linne. Ken ear eis Springs.

eri stock, it seems to be im ble 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.
*Oyperus castaneus, Willd. A dwarf annual ( perhaps a variety,
= if Pes a new species). New for the re of South
ust

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*Oyperus squarrosus (?), Linne. A form or an undescribed’

Scirpus lacustris (?), Linne

Eriocaulez.

*Eriocaulon submersum, Tate. Grows under water, except the
tips of the leaves and the flowering stalk. First seen at
Publichouse Springs by J. Langley, Trinity Well.

Gramineze.
Panicum decompositum, R. Brown.
8.

*Distiehlis maritima, Rafinesque. Near salt lakes, Publichouse
Springs.
Filices.
Grammitis rutaefolia, R. Brown.
Characeæ.
*Nitella sp. Not sufficiently developed to admit of D
denomination. A weed growing under water in mud tanks.
Introduced Plants.
A vena fatua, Lin
Anagallis arvensis, ere nne. Flowers brick-red.
Anagallis arvensis, var. caerulea, Schreb. Flowers blue.

DEFINITIONS or Two NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN POLYPLACOPHORA.

By EDWIN AsHBY.
a [Read September 3, 1900.]

The discovery of the two new species of mollusca described in
this paper is one of the many valuable results of Dr. Verco’s
dredging trips. Their discovery is of particular interest, because

genera are, as far as our present knowledge goes, very
rly represented in any part of the globe. Only one species of

3 enry
. Pilsbry, in his * Manual of Conchology," says of this genus
and its allied genera—** Of the whole series there are very few
species known. All of them are rare” And the other sub-
genus Stenochiton is only represented by two or three species,
though the allied C s Stenoplax, to which the species herein
described bears some affinity, is a little better represented ; but
no representative has yet been recorded from this colony

Ischnochiton (Stenochiton) pallens, sp. nov. Pl. i., figs. 1a—g.
General Appearance.—Shell glossy, dis pig anterior portion
tapering to rear. Evenly arched and rounded, side slope curved.
our.—Cream, mottled with pink id pu brown.

Anterior Valve.—Smooth and glossy, except for several growth
lines—that nearer the outer margin being the deeper. This
valve is longitudinally much shorter than is the case in
Stenochiton THE and S. Pilsbryanus. Slits 13, at very irregular
distances apart.

Posterior Valve. — Shield - shape tapering rapidly, mucro
posterior, only slightly raised. A deep sulcus traverses the whole
valve a short distance from the margin, preserving the shield
outline of the shell. A shallow diagonal depression crosses the
valve from the mucro to the suture. Surface of shell glossy nem

numerous growth lines, which are continued right across the
dorsal area. The three areas are hardly distinguishable, except
that the lateral area is slightly raised. The posterior margin is
finely serrated like e where the valves are not worn. Four
of the median dios k one broad wedged-shaped slit on each
side ; two valves have two slits on each side. Inside of shell

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irregular imbricating scales, which are finely striated.
Measurement.— Length, 26 mm.; breadth, 7 mm.
Habitat. —St. Vincent’s Gulf ; dredged by Dr. Verco.
emarks.—This species is much broader in proportion to its
length than juloides, the first valve being the broadest and very

and Pilsbryanus by the anterior valve being longitudinally much
Shorter, the creamy white colour, and the densely irregularly
Scaled girdle. I am indebted to Dr. Verco for specimens of this
and the following species.

Callochiton rufus, sp. nov. Pl. i., figs. 2a—g.

the lateral area of valve seven, which is pure white; from this
valve a white line traverses the girdle; also the four first valves
have a light spot on the posterior margin.

Anterior Valve, — Under pocket lense quite smooth, with the
exception of a few concentric growth lines. Megalospores are very
distinct under compound microscope. Slits 11, teeth crenulate,
which appearance is caused by the slight projection of the props.
The spongy character of the eaves is continued in the slits
between the teeth.

Posterior Valve is almost equally divided into two areas, the

orsal or central broadly wedge-shaped, traversed by eight
longitudinal strongly raised ribs, similar to those of the pleural
areas of the median valves. Mucro median, although shallow,
decidedly more prominent than in C. platessa. Posterior area
smooth, decidedly raised at the junction with the dorsal area.
Slight concentric growth lines are discernible.
Median Valves.—Lateral area much raised, slight ‚growth

The pits between are very deep where they join the lateral area.
Dorsal area is raised, wedge-shape, divided from the pleural area
by a deep spindle-shaped pit, tapering off into a curved groove at

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anterior margin. .A small white spot on valves three to eight.
Slightly beaked. Under one-inch objective this area is closely
ribbed with wavy longitudinal riblets. Slits two each side,
eaves very y spongy, teeth propp

Girdle.— Broad, under pocket ense leathery, same red colour
as valves, ; faa dat margin. Under one-inch objective is seen
to be densely clotlied. vith evenly packed, long, linear scales or
spicules. ese are arranged in rows, the apices curving across

Measurement.—Length, 16 mm.; breadth, 10 m

Habitat.—Dredged C Vincent’s Gulf by pe ` Verco ; one
specimen only.

kemarks.—In general appearance this species closely resembles
the bright red form of Chiton vage but on eloser inspection
the sculpture i is seen to be widely different. The ornamentation
in some respects approximates to Callochiton platessa, but that
species is much more strongly pitted or decussated, and the longi-
tudinal scimitar- ‘shaped sulci are absent; also it is more strongly
beaked than the species now described. Only one specimen has
been obtained, and only the insertion plates of the first two
valves have been examined.

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DEFINITION OF A NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH
AUSTRALIAN POLYPLACOPHORA.
By M. M. MAUGHAN.
[Read September 3, 1900.]
Chiton bien sp. nov. Pl. i., figs. 3a—g.

General Appearance .—Shape oblong, oval, very elevated,
carinated, side eh steep and slightly curved. Shell sloping
back from about valve five. Colour. —Greyish green, mottled
with olive. Anterior valve slightly lighter in colour than the
rest. Dorsal areas tipped with reddish tinge. Girdle same
colour as valves, with dark olive stripe opposite each lateral area,
and at intervals round anterior and posterior va Mist

Anterior Valve. —Steep, almost smooth, but showing scarcely

lateral areas of other valves. Immediately in front of this area
are = Sos wedge-shaped pits deseribed below. Slits eight.

n Valves.—Dorsal area beaked, merging into the pleural

area, ‘faintly wrinkled with what appear to be growth lines. The

marked feature of this shell i is the row of about 12 parallel, very

areas are elevated with very low, Wat: longitudinal, faintly
imbricating divisions. Slits 1.1. Insertion plates with pectinated
Sinus broad, denticulated with 12 slits. A strong triangular rib,
with apex at the posterior margin of the insertion pla ate, is seen
inside of each of valves two to seven. Colour of articulamentum
greenish white

Girdle.—Scales smooth, wide, and very obtuse at apex.

Measurement.—Length, 20 mm.; width, 10 mm.

Habitat —McDonnell Bay ; : found by Dr. W. G. Torr, to
whom I am indebted for specimens.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.
Dorsa l view of entire shell.
alve.

Anterior valve showing teeth.
atn of girdle magnified.
. Insertion plate, median valve.

p easque pallens.

jorge e Ro op

n ru
$ Chiton oruktus

DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES
OF AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA (CHIEFLY
TASMANIAN).*

By PnorrssoR RALPH Tate and W. L. Mar.
[Read October 2, 1900.]

Lampusia nodocostata, spec. nov.
Shell fusiform, rather slender, light-brown. Whorls ign

suggestive of a styliform proto-conch similar to that of Z. exarata,
but on a larger scale.

Costze subacute, with about three nodulations on the anterior
half; six intervariceal coste. Mg similar to the costs,
except that they are stouter ; seven in

The spiral ornament consists of ee threads, Meg
obscurely granulated ; 24 on the penultimate whorl, which
three on the anterior ied i the whorl are broader, and bili
the nodulations on the c

Last whorl about merine the total length of the shell. The
costæ are extended to the base, and the nodulation is continued
below the periphery, corresponding with the intercrossing of six
broader spiral threads, which are regularly disposed ; the inter-
stitial spaces between the broader threads are occupied by about
eight smaller spiral threads.

Aperture quadrately oval ; beak short, considerably upturned.
The columella is smooth, and ber outer lip is not dentate (the
shell is probably not full grow

Length, 31; breadth, 16; length of aperture and canal, 17 mm.

Ma

East Coast, Tasmania l wó examples ( ay ).
This species appears from the in i ‘and figures of T'riton
tenuiliratus, Lischke, Japan Meer-Conch, to be closely related

thereto; but differs by details of M. T. granulatus,
n to

*It is antieipated that figures of the new species and — unfigured

Tasmanian species will be published early next year b e Linnean
Society of New Sout les, to e md paper ied ^ Re ised
— of the Marine Moll ^ dmt wu: as time does not permit of

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us, but as it is said to belong to Section Simpulum, whereas our
"ie pon to Gutturnium, the two must be regarded as
distin

Cantharus kingicola, spec. nov.

Shell fusiformly oval, somewhat solid; colowr opaque-white,
except the summit, which i is pale-orange.

Nucleus small, of two and a-half smooth, convex turns.
Spire-whorls five, slopingly convex, subangulated towards the
anterior by reason of the greater volume of the axial costs. The
axial ornamentation consists of close, elevated, panda straight

lire, fairly regular, with occasional interstitial threadlets, and
there is a sutural band.
Aperture elongately oval, half as long as the shell. Outer lip

within. Columella concavely arcuate, not plaited at the base.
Beak short, rather wide, snper upturned.
ngth, 18; width, 9 mm
King Island ; two specimens.

arginella cratericula, spec. nov.

Roundly nee somewhat bulleform, having the general
features, as regards shape of a Bullinella, translucent, shining;
bluntly rounded posteriorly (where the shell is widest), rapidly
attenuating to the subacute front. er concealed and sunken

m depressio
Outer lip slightly thickened saoth on the inner margin.
Columella with two closely approximate large plaits; the anterior

one the larger, terminating in a slight anterior emargination.
ngth, 2:3; width, 15 m

D'Entrecasteaux Channel Pessina; 10 fathoms (W. Z. May),
two examples, :

This species is conspicuous by its impressed spire, which
separates it from all other Marginellide.

arginella multiplicata, spec. nov.

Shell Caan, rather t shining white, having much the
shape of M. Isseli. Spire concealed. . Aperture eilig the
total length of the shell, but not extending much beyond the

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summit; slightly arched, narrow, of nearly equal width till it
slightly ‘widens at the everted front. Outer lip thickened and
well-margined all round, smooth within. Columella with one
strong oblique plait at the front, which is sueceeded on the pillar
by seven transverse thread-like plaits; the columella-plait runs
‘out to form the left i Pr v a shallow and wide effuse notch.

Length, 1:6: width, -

Tasmania; NW. PülterdT. ^

This species much resembles M. Jsseli, Nevill (M. ayn
Braz. pk but it has more Eigen and the outer lip is smooth ;

cymbalum, which is a much larger shell, it is more een

ae. and the Piel of a different type. M. Hallii is
truncated at the apex. M. alternans appears to resemble it, and
though they have the same number of plications, yet their dispo-
sitions are so distinctly different that we must regard them, in
the absence of actual comparisons, as distinct.

Marginella biplicata, spec. nov.

Shell small, ed pellucid, straw-coloured. Spire very
obtuse, of three and a-half whorls, scarcely exserted. Aperture
narrow-elongate, seen to the front, obtuse-angled posteriorly.
Outer lip scarcely thickened; not ascending on the spire, its

he posterior one is slightly the stronger ; anterior emargination
it^ di fined.
Total length, 4; greatest width, 2
Port Esperance, 'Tasmania ; in 94 fathoms, 2 exs. (W. L. May).
It is nearest to M. tinilar but is shorter and relatively
broader, and the apex is more obtuse, whilst the most prominent
differences are in the smooth inner lip and biplicated columella.

M Lini at Simsoni, spec. nov.

M. denticulata (pars), Tate, non Conrad

JM. minima, Petterd, non E

Shell pyriform, contracted in front, shining, white. Spire
immersed, though not wholly concealed. Aperture as long as the
shell, slightly everted in the young. Outer lip thickened, smooth.
Columella with about ten plications, decreasing gradually in size
from ince front.

, 1-9; greatest width, 1-3 mm.
Tasmania and South Australia.
minima, Petterd, the type of which we have studied has a

length of 1:4 and a breadth of 1-0 mm., and besides being smaller

han M. denticulata it is slightly more attenuated to the front,
se the outer lip is not thickened ; differences which may be
attributed to a young age.

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The description of M. denticulata, Tate, is inapplicable, because
it was based on two species—one specimen supplied the charac-
ters “ denticulated margin and four-plicate columella" with exsert
spire (it is a young micromorph of A. Strangei); the other,
* pyriform shape and immersed d gr a smooth outer lip
and multiplicate columella, is M. Simso

Marginella Mayii, Tate (spec. nov. ).

Shell of an elongately oblong-oval shape; the body-whorl
rather rapidly tapering from the nn shoulder to the base ;
spire obtusely conical, blunt at the a

Test thick, smooth, polished. Rennie colour chestnut-brown,
relieved on the spire by lighter colour at the posterior sutures ;

band at about the posterior one-third, and eae at the base; the
dark coloured bands are dee eper €— > ir margins; the
thickened aperture, all round, is opaque

horls five, nearly flat ; the last convex re and of an
even slope thence to the s

wide media ally, narrowing thence to the front to about half.
Outer lip thickly and broadly callously thickened on the outside,
ascending to about one-half the height of the penultimate uii
denticulated within (except towards the extremities). Colum
stoutly four-plaited, plaits d the posterior pair more
transverse than the anterior pai

Total length, 12 ; length of aperture, 9 ; maximum width, 6 mm.

Frederick Henry Bay (type) and East Coast of Tasmania
(W. L. May); Derwent Estuary (#. Harrison).

Among Australian congeners M. Mayii comes near to
M. pygmea, but is of very much larger size; it is, moreover,
more attenuated anteriorly, and especially differs by its outer ^4
variced outside and denticulated within ; also near M. AU
which it resembles in its denticulated outer lip aia oain

Mariik ovulæformis, spec. nov.

Shell minute, ovate, attenuated at the ends, regularly convex,
white, shining. Spire concealed, the aperture extending back-
ward beyond in

Apertu rrow, arcuate, bluntly rounded ee
lightly er to the front, ending

emargination, which is curved to the left. Outer lip a

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blunt-edged, edentulous. Columella with a strong terminal
spiral plait running out to form the left margin of a deep an
somewhat effuse canal.

Length, 1:5; cerae width, 1 mm.

Tasmania (W. F. Petterd /).

This species and M. lubrica are characterised among recent
Marginellide by their uniplicate columellas, but that type has an
ancestral form in an Eocene species at Muddy Creek. In shape,
M. ovuleformis is somewhat intermediate ie M. Flv indersi,
with two plaits, and M. Hallii, with seven plaits; M. Isseli is
also near, but it has four plaits, and is not so attenuated at the
ends.

Donovania fenestrata, spec. nov.
Shell moderately stout, narrow lanceolar-fusiform, pale-fawn
colour. Pullus papillary of ‚three N convex smooth

strength, which produce square deep fenestrations; there are
five spiral ridges, and on the penultimate whorl there are about
twenty axial o

Last whorl er with seven spiral Fa to the n
three on the concave area below it, and four

Aperture roundly oblong, higher than des outer lip entire,
vertical in contour, simple, ridged inside, corresponding with the
external furrows. Columella arched to its base, thence running
out abruptly and obliquely to form the left boundary of a short,
wide, A aiU up-turned snout.

th, 8; width, 2-75; height of aperture, 2:75 mm.
East Coast of Tasmania (W. x May).

Natica Tenisoni, nom. mutand.

N. nana, Ten.-Woods, P.R.S., Tasm., 1876, p. 149, non Möller.
Long Bay; Ten.-Woods.

Thylacodes caperatus, spec. nov.

Shells agglomerate, reddish brown; whorls embracing and
reciprocally adherent, forming a short broad cone, ornamented
with — rounded, irregularly-sized, transverse ridges ; suture
distinet. The free tubular portion long, much n arrowed, irregu-

arly i circular in section; ornamented as the rest of the
shell.

Diameter of base, 4 to 5; height of cone, about 2; length of
tube, up to 10 ; its diameter, lmm

amar Heads, Tasmania; W, F. Petterd . f:

Animal unknown, but from its resemblance to some Tertiary
species in Australia it is associated with Thylacodes rather than
with Vermetus.

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Turritella Atkinsoni, spec. nov.
This species was described as new by Tenison-Woods in 1877,
under the name of 7. Tasmanica, which makes double employ-
ment with Reeve’s species ; j une in the following Pies it is quote

by him in his “Census” as 7. Tasmaniensis (a typographical
error). It would appear that he had — admitted =
need of a new specific denomination, and the shell has bee

locally known as 7. Atkinsoni. Thou ugh its Sieli is ibt
traceable in print, we utilise it with ready willingness.

. Woods's description is rather misleading, as it implies a
bicarinated species, whereas there are four arge keels on the
penultimate whorl—the peripheral one is the largest, the posterior
two smaller, and the anterior one is nearly as large as the peri-
pheral one, with or without a “e — at one or both sutures.
Its closest relative is Z’. austrina, Watson, of Kerguelen —
but the Tasmanian shell lined interstitial spiral strie, and t
are are deeper and wider.

ng Bay, Ten.- Woods ; Port oe W. L. May.
T. Godeffroyana, Donald, Mal. Soc., IV., p. 53, t. 5, f. 6-6a,
1900, which is founded on a single specimen, may be an indi-
vidual variation ; it has three strong keels.

alaria (Acrilla) minutula, spec. nov.

Shell minute, moderately thick, FM TM Spire-
whorls five, pale yellow-brown, flatly convex, and slightly
angulated in the posterior-third, separated by a linear suture,
bounded anteriorly by a spiral thread ; ornamented by slender
slightly oblique ribs, about 15 on the penultimate whorl, which
are somewhat bent at the angulation, the interspaces are as wide,
and smooth. The translucent-white apex consists of a convex,
relatively wide, three- to four-carinated whorl, and of a small
hemispheric tip.

t whorl flatly convex to the acute margin defining the base,
base smooth.

Aperture oblong, somewhat effusively expanded at the front ;
peristome incomplete; outer lip on shortly insinuate at the
suture; columella thin, Poi stra

ngth, 2; breadth, :57 m

Tas a, W. L. Petterd!; W. Coast of S. Australia, R. Tate /;
Victorias y H. Gat tif!

Eulima inflata, spec. nov.

Whorls slightly enger Dar nvex ; gen whorl some-
what contracted; last whorl much infla ted, regularly convex.
Aperture relatively soil roundly oval, hardly oblique. Outer
lip not retreating at the sutural margin.

Length without apex, 6-25; width, 3 mm.

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his species resembles Æ. T’ryoni, but is thinner, and is a
longer shell for the same number of whorls—the whorls are more
convex; whilst Tryoni has a more oblique aperture, narrower
base, which is oblique on the left side.

In t the absence of the tip, it is uncertain to place the species in
the Section Mucronalia, to some species of which it has some
resemblance.

North Coast of Tasmania; W. F. Petterd!.

Eulima Mayii, Tate, spec. nov.

Shell solid, white, highly polished. Spire with a slight apical
twist from before backward, gradually tapering to an extremely

or a little higher than wide, im ied oblique; outer lip retreating
from the middle line to the s

Length, 7:75; Mom 2:5 ; wa of aperture, 2:25 m

Seems to resem : intermedia, ut has the jaat whorl
approximately about half the m of the shell, instead of one-

third, as in the Mediterranean speci

I employ the species-name in relie ent to my coadjutor,
under which it has been known in manuscript among Tasmanian
collectors [ R. Tate

East Coast of Tasmania, south of Swansea; W. L. May.

Eulima Tryoni, spec. nor.

E. Tenisoni (pars), Tryon, Man. Conch., VIII., t. 68, f. 16,
non p. 269; E. Tenisoni, Tate, T.R.S., S. Aust., XXII, 1898,
SL

This is the shell figured by Tryon as Æ. Tenisoni, but it is a
different species to E. micans, T.-Woods, to which he applied that
name. It is related to E. latipes, Watson, which has a broader
base, patulous neo lip, and has a somewhat rapid increase of
growth of the s

Common in s. Australia; i rd Victoria; and at Derwent
Estuary, Tasmania, W. L. ;

Stylifer Petterdi, rom. mutand.
i S. robusta, Petterd, Journ. Conch., 1884, p. 140, non Pease,
860.
Leven Heads, Tasmania,

Syrnola Harrissoni, spec. nov.
Shell lanceolate, ie are smooth, white. Apex hetero-

strophe, small, of one and a-half who rls. Spire whorls five,
rapidly increasing in icai nelly flat, suture impressed (
specimens examined are more or less ess corroded, and present, in

consequence thereof, a usaid at the posterior suture).

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perture elongate - oval, somewhat expanding anteriorly ;
columella with a ver prominent spiral plait

The shell is variable in its proportionate dimensions. The
figured specimen has length, 3; width, 1; a large d has
breadth, 1:5; length of aperture, 2; estimated rg 5:5 mm

Off Brown’ s River, Tasmania, E. ’ Harvis

Syrnola Petterdi, nom. mutand.
Obeliscus Tasmanicus, Petterd., Jour. Conch., 1884, p. 40; non
S. eene Ten.-Woods (Styloptygma), 1877.
Tasmania

Syrnola punctospira, spec. nov.
Shell minute, acuminately oval, rather thin, sub translucent.
Spire whorls three and a-half, convex, of rather rapid increase

of punctures. Aperture elliptic-oval, front lip we, ppm d
dilated on the left; columella Mie Ü kei ghe twisted plait

Length, 2:25 ; greatest width,

George "Bay, Tasına ania, W. E Pid aah

A minute shell, with well-rounded and rather rapidly-increas-
ing whorls, with a distinctive sculptured pullus. Several
examples,

Odontostomia deplexa, spec. nov.

Shell minute, imperforate, moderately stout, smooth, pees
white, sculptured with microscopic growt lines (without spiral
stris). bg five, of moderate increase, convex, slightly pro.
tuberant at the re suture. Pullus concealed, except the
papillary-like tip of the

Aperture oval, ue with a strong transverse fold at its
origin.

Length, 3; width, 1:1 m

Most like 0. lovis, but the whorls are more convex, shell more
cylindroid, besides gue much smaller.

Frederick Henr nry Bay, Tasmania (W. L. May); S. Australia
(R. Tate); Victoria (J. H. Gatliff/).

Odontostomia varians, spec nov
Shell small, acuminately oval, moderately stout, dull white
(dead). Pullus pellucid, smooth, papill ary as a whole, forming a
small lop-sided bend. Whorls five, flatly convex, poris by a
broad deep suture; sculptured by four deep narro ral
grooves, separating flat interspaces of dissimilar width (the o first
E

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three are relatively gen the second and third of about the same
width, but wider than o the fourth is a slender lineation sunk
in the sutural canal). The first and second ligatures are broken-
up into blunt, straight, axial ridges, separated by about as wide
indented interspaces.

Aperture oval, peristome thin. Columella slightly arched,
forming a blunt roundly-effuse angle at the front; thinly a
sparingly exsert to form an umbilical chink ; there is a slender

Length, 3; width, 1:4 mm.

Of six examples two are in accord with the foregoing descrip-
tion. A third and fourth, which are translucent horn-colored,
have the first and second ligatures deed ma small granules;
whilst the fifth and sixth, a without ornament,
and the spiral furrows are feebly S T barely traceable
on the body-whor

D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania (W. L. May).

Genus Pseudorissoina, Tate and May.
Type :—P. Tasmanica, Tenison-W oods (Stylifer).
Apex sinistral, spire and aperture like Rissoina (e.g., R. nivea).

“Ts it not rather an Eulim Our study of the species con-
firms Ten.-Woods’ einen Am the apex is sinistral—indeed,
whilst having the spire and aperture of a Rissoina, like R. nivea
(the shell is, idet smooth), it has the heterostrophé loop-like
nucleus of Zulimella. Such a combination of characters seem to
be unprovided for in the families Pyramidellide or Rissoide,
hence the new generic seems Gok Briefly, this new genus is a
Pyramillid with a Rissoina aperture or a Rissoinid with a
Pyramilloid nucleus. The Night value of the nuclear character
in classification induces us to place it, in Pyramidellide, near
Eulimella.
ne admiranda, nom. mutand

E Ten.-Woods, P.R.S. Tasm., 1877, p. 150;
non Turbonilla b Pfund. A. Adams, 1 1861.

T. festiva, Angas, P.Z.S., 1877, t. 5, f. 4; non Folin, 1867.

Victoria, Tasmania, and ‘N.S. Wa les.

Rissoia (Apicularia) demessa, spec. nov.

Shell minute, strong, pale-brown. Spire-whorls four, convex,
ornamented with narrow roun ded oblique ibtd (about fourteen on
the penultimate) more prominent medially, and attenuated at
the sutures; also with spiral grooves, which are about as wide as

the intervening flat threads (about eight on the penultimate) ; on

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*he last whorl the powder cost stop short at the periphery.
Pullus of smooth w

This exis is doni] related to R. trajectus, Watson, but
«differs by mo elongat e shape, arched ribs, and rounded whorls ;
also to R. Strangei, Braz., which has closer and stronger ribs, fewer
‘Spiral stris, iu the shell short and stout

Tasmania.

Rissoia (Apicularia) apieilirata, spec. nov.

Elongate-conie, thin, yellow-fawn, smooth, shining. Pullus
'hyaline, turbinate, two-whorled, ornamented with three, spiral,
:simple, relatively broad and hig h keels. Whorls three, slightly
bicarinated, the posterior slope somewhat concave, the anterior
slope steeper and shorter; ornamented by transverse slender
ridges (about twenty on the penultimate), which are oblique
on the posterior slope, vertical thence to the front suture;
there is à spiral gia. at the posterior suture, and a threadlet
near the anterior ; two spiral rows of small nodosities
-occupy the near uL third of the whorl.

Periphery of last whorl with four riblets crossed by costul:e,
‚and there are a few others on the base which gradually decrease

Aperture, oval; peristome PER thin.
Length, 2:2; width, 9 mm.
D'Entrecasteaax Channel, Tasmania
This species is unique in the section by reason of its ornate
pullus
Rissoia (Pusillina) diserepans, spec. nov.
Shell oval-conie, erus A p bar, pale ee " soin apex
f t

anterior part; an indistinct lineation is at the periphery, as also
‘one above and one below, all in near contiguity; base finely

wah econ radially.

Aperture oval, r and inner lips thinly callously joined ;
‚outer fip. € (lightly asics dilated behind, front lip wi

slight insinuosity—these features are probably the result of an

injury ring life). Columella slightly exsert, margining a linear
‘umbilical chink.
ngth, 3; width, 1:6 mm.
D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasman
e ornament and shape, in coii bli tid with the DEPT
'base, distinguish this species from all figured species.

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Rissoia (Amphithalamus) Simsoni, spec. nov.

Pupiform, strong, shining, white, tinted with pale-chestnut..
Whorls four, flatly convex, sculptured with microscopie oblique:
strie; suture linear. Apex hemispheric of one and a-half
whorls. Last whorl somewhat flattened on the ventral face.
Aperture oval; peristome continuous, adnate to the parietal
wall. Resem les R. dissimilis on a large scale.

Length, 4:5 ; width, 1:5 m

Species-name in compliment to our friend and co-worker, Mr.
Auguste Simson of Launceston.

Derwent — Tasmania ( W. L. May); also Port Fairy,
Victoria (Rev. 7. Whan /).

Rissoia (Cingula) rubicunda, spec. nov.

Shell minute, elevated conic, imperforate, nn thick ;

varies in colour from pellucid-brown to opaque-w

ul obtuse, of one and a-half turns. Spire. EDER four,
moderately convex, widest near the anterior suture
examples show a tendency to imbrication), smooth, and sculptured
with growth-lines. Suture linear, distinct. Last whorl rather
depressed at the suture, rounded at the periphery, a little con-
tracted at the outer lip.

Aperture rotund, chestnut-coloured in the interior ; peristome
entire ; outer lip thin ; columella lip slightly exsert, margining a
false umbilical chink.

Length, 2:5; width, 1:0

Derwent Estuary, a (W. L. May); many examples.

This may prove to belong to Buen when the animal has.
been studied.

perexigua, nom mutand.

Rissoia ER Ten.-Woods, P.R.S. rcge DU p. 122

non Rissoia minutissima, Michelin, ** Gen. Risso

Rissoia (Nodulus) pellucida, spec. nov.
Shell minute, obliquely oad somew ven stout, translucent-white,.
P

smooth, shining, imper us small, obtuse. Spire-
whorls three and a-half, pisei resur slantingly convex,
without visible ornament or sculpture. Aperture roundly oval ;.
peristome thick, continuous.
B. "15 mm

Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania (W. L. May).
s species ditfers from other members of the section by its.
Littorina-like shape; however, the following species in Section
ina offer some comparisons vimm has the outline of
R. hyalina, which possesses spiral raised strie and delicate
growth-lines, and it is more obliquely oval than A. littorineformis.

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Rissopsis buliminoides, spec. nov
Shell small, cylindroid, thin, opgoen ia Whorls six, flatly
jm sculptured ‚wit th faint axial st rie of growth; sutu

somewhat explanulate ; columella with a slight torsion over à
minute umbilical chink.

Length, 4:25 ; breadth, l:3 mm.

Federick Henry Bay, Tasmania; 10 fathoms, W. L. May.

Rissopsis consobrina, spec. nov.
Elongate, turreted, hyaline (in a fresh state), with rounded
whorls and a deep suture, sculptured with curved growth-lines.
Specs elongate-oval, somewhat explanulate, columella-lip very
‘thin and exsert.

Its turreted form, rounded whorls, and elongate-oval aperture
distinguish it from R. buliminoides.

ength, 3:5 ; width, 1:0 mm.
Federick Henry Bay, Tasmania, common, W. L. eu

Cyclostrema porcellana, spec. no
Shell oval-conic, moderately stout, smooth, shir ddr opaque-
white. Spire-whorls three and a-half, convex, sloping gently

faintly marked by oblique striw. Pullus of one an a-ha
whorls, translucent, depressedly convex. Periphery of last yer
roundly angulated. Aperture roundedly-oval, oblique; peristom
incomplete ; outer lip rather thin; columella slightly exsert, but
not reflected over a minute umbilicus. Six examples

Length, 1:8 ; breadth, 1:3 mm.

This species is more conie than such related forms of Tubiola
as C. australe, C. contabulatum, and C. micron.

Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania ( W. L. ie

Zidora Loddere.

Z. d ey PLS, N. 8. S Wales, rp p. 93, three

Miror ; non Beddom 3.
species is Ar cn to the Japanese Z. reticulata ;

and fede from Reeve's figure of that shell, the Tasmanian
congener differs by relatively greater wi

The shell which. Tate rightly attributed to Beddome's ng
‚and described under the name of Z. Legrandi, T.R.S., S. Aust.
XVIIL, p. 118, 1894, differs from other known species by its
-apex situated far within the vertical plane of the posterior

margin.
Tasmania ( Miss Lodder ) ; N.S. Wales (apud Hedley).

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a prom Tasmaniea, rom. mutand
N. parva, var. Tasmanica, Pilsbry, “ en, 1895.
Frederick Fury Bay, Tasmania (W. L. May).

Cadulus (Gadilia) spretus, spee.

Shell small, of medium proportion, well-curved, rigat (im
some specimens) with translucent and opaque-white rings and
encircling bands. Surface smooth, with ana obliquely annular
grooves or lines, without traces of vertical s

Apertures circular, transverse. cong bddanly contracted
quite near the oral aperture, but exhibits a slight dilatation at

he end.

Shell most like C. panamensis, Sharp and Pilsbry, but seems to
grow more rapidly, has greater breadth throughout, and is more
d

h of shell, 5:5 ; diameter of larger aperture, ^7 ; of the
smaller aperture, ‘3 mm.
rt Esperance, Tasmania, in 24 fathoms ( W. L. May).
Cyamium mactroides, spec. nov.

Shell mactra-like, minute, equivalve, nearly equilateral, some-
what thick, smooth, and shining; of a whitish colour, and par
tially brown-tinted, moderately convex. Pa ebisie concentrically
striated, en radially ise ventral and anterior margins
crenulated w Umbos small, approximate, slightly directed
forwards, a liste posterior. e line about equally inclined,
the anterior margin curved, the posterior margin truncatedly
rounded, ventral margin nearly straig

e arched and relatively "deep. Left valve with a
posterior marginal ligamentel pit, in front of which is a central
cardinal tooth with two strong equal divaricating branches, and
an anterior oblique cardinal tooth. Right valve with two
diverging cardinal teeth, the anterior one bifid at l the tip.

ceret doa er diameter, 2-05; serpa diameter, 1:8 mm.

Two pairs of valves, taken in F. Petterd/).

The reference of this little shell to panic is because its
dentition agrees with the emended description of the genie as.
implied by Bernard in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1897, p. 311.

Carditella delta, spec. nov.

Shell equilateral, subequivalve, trigonal, compressed with pro-
duced straigh inted umbones. The dorsal lines slope very
rapidly from the umbones which are in contact ; the post-dorsal
margin slightly arched, the anterior-dorsal straight ; the e
and escutcheon occupy deep elliptical depressions, angulated o
the margin. The ventral margin is arched, and is distantly

crenulated within

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There is a thin brown epidermis; the ornament consists of
Be lines and a few distant 'growth- folds and obscure
radial lin

U mbo- Ventre T „ 2:25; antero-posterior diam., 2; sec-
tional diam., 1:2

Derwent Meurs RC EU (W. L. May).

Comes nearest to C. polita, Tate, an Eocene species, but is not
produced anteriorly. it differs from C. Atkinsoni by its acutely
trigonal outline, and is not so convex.

Carditella pectinata, spec. nov.

Triangularly oval, inequilateral, rather convex. ntero-
dorsal margin straight and steeply inclined ; post-dorsal margin
convexly sloping to the narrow rounded posterior side; ventral

margin slightly curved, distantly crenulated w

bones obtuse, prominent, approximate, ‘deat consider-
ably in front of the centre.

Colour yellowish-brown. The ornament consists of numerous
(fifteen or more) radial broad ridges (most conspicuous anteriorly),
separated by linear sulci; and intersected by growth-lines

Umbo-ventral amis 15; ; antero-posterior diam., 1:5; sec-
tional diam.,

Derwent (Rep Tasmania ( W. L. May).

Genus Thraciopsis, nom. mutand.
Alicia; Angas, 1867, non Johnson, 1861.
T

ype :—7. angustata, Angas (sp.
New South Wales, Tasmania, and South Australia.

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ON THE OCCURRENCE OF MARINE FOSSIL-
IFEROUS ROCKS AT KERGUELEN ISLAND.
By Prorgessor RALPH TATE.
[Read September 3, 1900. ]
Plates II. —III.
INTRODUCTION.
Kerguelen Island was discovered in 1772 by the vegeta
a French vessel—Ives Julian de Kerguelen Trem
little later it was visited by Captain Cook. Since iba | it has
been visited by four scientific expeditions, the first under the
command of Sir James Ross in 1840; vim second, that of the
Challenger Expedition in 1874, and the two Transit of Venus
Expeditions 1874-75, one British, the hel United States of
Am

>

The “island i isin about 49? South latitude, is 100 miles long,
and about 50 miles wide, and is about 3,500 miles S.E. from the
Cape of Good Hope, and 3,000 miles from the extreme west, coast
of Australia.

Ross says of it, that it is one of the most barren spots on the
earth at the same distance from the pole. One of the names by

and rugged mass of sterile mountains, ded A ‚parallel steppes
one above another in alternate slopes and precipices, terminating
in frightful naked and frowning cliffs, wild dip perpendicularly
into the sea. The snow lying upon these slopes between the
black cliffs gives a most singularly striped and banded appear-
ance to the whole country, each band indicating a flow o
volcanic matter, for the island is cove with craters, whose
vents have given issue to stream upon ge: of molten se

sinuous

Kerguelen Inland was visited in 1898 by Mr. Robert Hall, of
RN and his collections of lichens, alg, fungi, and rocks,
which have been described by experts in the “ Victorian
Naturalist, vols. XV. and XV1.,” have supplemented —
knowledge in the several departments. But these discove
vast] nded by that Ming to the presence of aiae

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fossiliferous strata; almost unique as regards high Southern
la nor.

h
Address, Phil. Inst., Canterbury, 1884 :—“ From what is known
-of the geology of the Antarctie Islands, it appears that all are
voleanie, except South Georgia, which is part of an old slate-
mountain range.” Nevertheless, Papin Hutton has over-
looked the observations o yi er, which indicate the

remarks in his “Contributions to the Natural History of
Kerguelen Island made in 1874-75,” Bull, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1876 :

“The main rocks are basalt and dolerite. The streams had
ut their way deeply in places, exposing extensive surfaces of
rock, but diligent. search failed to disclose any stratified or
fossiliferous beds" in the southern part of Kerguelen Island.

extensive deposits of coal of poor quality, and contain many
trunks of petrified trees,” p. 34.

Position, NATURE, AND FOSSIL-CONTENTS OF THE MARINE
Deposit

From Mr. Hall’s — and sketches the position of the
fossil development occupies a depression on the west side of the
peak known as Cat's Fars; it is squeezed in between viva
masses at a steep slope, and attains to an elevation of 826 fee
The stratum seems as if it had been upthrusted from js
horizontal position xh the eruption of the volcanie mass which is
crowned by Cat's Ears

Natica one sp., Turritella one, Chione t Wes zc ytilus
two, Polyzoa two gear on the casts of Chione), Balanus
one, Spirorbis one (2.25 mm. diam., ie 35), Serpe two eme
iculated, tubes "rv mm. diam, the other solitary, lon
vermiculate).
The facies of the fauna is Tertiary, and ma y belong to

-of it, because, as regards the well-defined species of MA AR not
-one is referable to living creation—certainly not in reference to

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the existing fauna of Kerguelen Island and other similar
Southern positions. The Zwrritella resembles 7. Hookeri from
ke: Antarctic, without locality ; the Natica has no near analogue,
the genera Chione and Gari are not represented in high

Saber latitudes ; nevertheless, it is*not en that the
two Ape of Mytilus may belong to recent spec

auna indicates nothing specialised, ciat that of dis-
tivities of species, to separate it from that of a moder
deposit ; and in the absence of distinctive genera of Paleogene
age, I must refer the deposit to Neogene without any subordinate:
assignment.

Nores oN THE Fossirs.

Natica Tremarici, spec. nov. Pl. ii., figs. 4a-4c.

Shell AT hemispheric ; whorls four and a half, sa regen
with growth-lines, but without spiral sculpture. Apertu
lünáfé. Umbilicus wide; a small callus is reflected over hi
upper portion of the umbilicus.

In this fossil species is like the recent N. ampla and
N. Incei of the same size, but the spire is obtuse and less elevated
than in N. Incei, more elevated than in N. ampla, and regularly
convex below the suture; the umbilicus is somewhat similar to
that of N. ampla.

a 19 and 12; height, 10 mm.

Turritella Hallii, spec. nov. Pl. ii., figs. 3a-35.
Shell broadly conical, a little rounded at the basal angle and
on the base. Apex not knowr. Whorls ten, sica d much

The ornament consists of two strong keels, one at Fee margin
of the side, dividing each whorl into three approximately equal
widths; the space between the keels is flattish or slightly con-
cave. In addition there are fine spiral threads, usually alter-
naternately large and small, six on the intercarinal space, and
six on each of the sutural slopes.

Aperture quadrately oval, higher than it is broad ; outer lip.
not preserved, though there’are traces on the anterior part of the
last whorl of eurved growt th lines, ae a broad shallow
sinus; columella somewhat arched and thickened (not dilated at
the front).

Length, 39; breadth, 12:5 ; height of last, whorl, 12 m

Among the few bicarinate species of the genus it Mun some

pproac roach to T. ambulacrum, Sow., Tertiary in Patagonia and
Chatham binds which has the whorls not so quadrate, and the
encircling ribs are of unequal size. It simulates 7. Zookeri,
Reeve, an Antarctic species, but, judging by the figure, it is

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narrower, with more numerous whorls. No details of ornament.
accompany the diagnosis. 7. austrina, Watson, from Kerguelen,
is somewhat broader, the whorls more numerous, not so quad-
rate, and the two carinating lire not equally disposed.
Chione permagna, spec. nov. PI. ii., fig. 1.
Shell triangularly oval, very thick, somewhat heart-shaped,
very inequilateral, depresse ly convex. Umbones large, de-
i i h.

antero-dorsal margin en curved ; ; inner margin of bs
quite entire. Lunule broadly elliptic, shallow, its margins.

Orname solution of crowded re: growth-ridges and lines,
not raised into lamelle } and on the dorsal-half by rounded
radial threads with equidistant interstitial furrows, about thirty
in a width of ten millimetres.

ro-posterior diameter, 86; umbo-ventral diam
sectional diam., 40. A larger and more orbicular example has
ant.-post. diam., 95 ; umbo-ventral diam.,

This large ponderous shell is probably the largest i in the genus
hence its specific name; it is distinguishable by its obliquely
orbicular outline

ion Hallii, spec. nov. Plate ii., fig. 5.

Shell oblong-oval, moderately convex, somewhat thick,

inequilateral ; concentrically grooved, the depressed rounded

ten millimetres near the ventral margin. Internal margin of
valves quite entire.
Antero-posterior diameter, 47; umbo-ventral diam., 38 ; sec-
tional diam., 21 rg
ost like C. tris Lamk., but the anterior side is mo
developed, more Sordat, the post-dorsal — more arched, uM
the concentric folds narrower an

e Kergueleni, spec. nov. Ww ii., fig. 9.

Chion
Oval-cordate, subventricose. Post-dorsal margin regularly

convex ; ventral margin slightly curved, a rapidly to the
m i

Ornamented with depressed concentrie ridges, separat ted by
narrow deep sulci ; about eight ridges in a width of ten milli-
metres at the front (but the various examples show considerable
variation in the number of.the growth-ridges) ; faintly radiately
and densely striated at least on the sub-surface shell-layer.

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Antero - posterior diameter, 57; umbo-ventral diam., 45;
-sectional diam., 32 mm.

This species differs from C. Hallii by its regularly convex
dorsal margin and its wide concentric ridges.

Gari? sp
The collection contains a single RE of a member of the

Antero-posterior diameter, 50 ; dorso-ventral ade m., 2

It does not agree with any described rece t species of the
family, though it 1 aa to Solseotaliina: siliqua, Reeve,
inhabiting New Zea

ud sp. (aff. M. planulatus).
Shell eo. oval, solid, somewhat angularly attenuated
towards t mbo, which is bent down wards, transversely
es convex. (Smooth with low concentric growth- folds.)
Anterior r margin straight, dorsal margin uninterruptly arched,
ventral mar,
Length (ineomplafié, 95 mm.; severe width medially, 65 mm.
(One imperfect valve, much décórtio
This fossil is distinct from M. line wiátil; sese > M.

in
unable to make a comparative study wi a chorus, i avoid
applying a distinctive denomination.

Mytilus, sp. (aff. M. RR
A mould of a radially sculptured mussel is suggestive of M.

Nl, B ue the fine regular radiating ridges indicate some
other refere

EXPLANATIONS TO PLATES.
PraTE I.
fs Nat. si
permagna. pem
2. Chione Kerguelini. N
3. Turritella Hallii. a, N A b, sectional portion of a whorl, enlarged.
4. Natica Tremarici. Sectional three views, slightly enlarged—a, from
above ; b, frontal side; c, base
5. Chione Hallii. Nat. size.

Prats III.
Carts Ears, looking south-east from Long Island, near entrance to Royal
Sound. (A sketch by Mr. R. Hall, 4-1-98).
1. Cat’s Ears
2. Fossil bed.
- Heavy masses

of rock.
4. Lava much contracted and distorted,

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SECTION OF A WELL-BORE AT MULGUNDAWA,.
NEAR WELLINGTON, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

By Proressor RALPH TATE.
[Read September 3, 1900.]

In the latter part of 1899 Dr. RE AN on behalf of Mr.
Kni ight, of Mulgundawa, handed me some siftings of certain

opinion as to the probability of reaching water at no inconsider-
able depth, if a second venture should be decided o

ll No. 1 was sunk to a depth of 214 feet. At 213 feet a
shell-bed, rich in fossils, was penetrated. The fosssils are mainly
identical with those of the chief fossil-bed in the Kent Town

exceed 20 or 30 feet. It is situated about 40 miles
Ki-Ki, which yielded water at 312 feet below ‚sea-level. * Te

were rising in their eni ev T assigned a less depth to-
reach Pens than obtained a

Bore No. 2 was sunk inda to di site of No. 1, and in a letter,
dated fly 14, 1900, Mr. John S. Knight advises that “At a
depth of 292 feet we struck water, which rose to, and is still

the feasibility of an economic. application of a detailed know-
ledge of the actual similitudes of fossiliferous horizons. An
inerease of like results may lead to the determination of the
actual source of water supply contained in the basal beds of the-
Eocene in the vast area of country extending eastward from the

* See Clark, Trans. Roy Soc., S. Aust, XX., 1896, p. 112.

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River Murray into the mallee lands of N.W. Victoria. The
‘quality of the water has not altogether been unsuspected, and it
is clear from the position of Mulgundawa that the water is im-

oun and in consequence has acquired an accession of
mineral ingredients ; ; but it is not improbable that, in course of
‘time, some sensible diminution in the percentage value of its
salts will result.

BoRE-SECTION AT MULGUNDAWA.

3. 40. Fine yellow sand, with fragments of oyster; pectens and
spines of Ci idaris.

43. Greyish- a fine-grained calciferous Me with calciferous

stone pellets. Jsis sp. a olyzoa.

:60-69. Similar W 43. Terebratulina alttiina. Isis sp.
Scutellina patella, Fibularia Lon Polyzoa

75. Sameas 43. Shell ee very r

.84-93. Same as 60-69. Fossil-debris rare. Scutellina patella
= other dee: Graphularia, Dimya

ssimilis.
“97-98. Grey, ee caleiferous sand, and slightly argillace-
us.

100-107. Same as 60-69. Terebratulina catinuliformis.
160-164. Greenish-grey, very fine- Re caleiferous sand.
erebratulina catinuliform
175. Yellowish-grey, calciferous, are
180-186. Bluish- grey, clayey sand, very fine, and slightly eal-
No fossils.

188-200. Grey kloifoiðui sand and sandrock. No fossils.
202-206. Mottled grey-brown sandy clay. Chief source of the

fossils,

207-208. Very stiff brown-black clay.

209. Brown clayey sand.

216-226. (From seven hien D Very stiff brown-black clay.

230-232. Brown clayey sa

238. Light brown v m

246-250. Stiff black clay.

‘254-260. Black and rey clays.

264. Brown clayey s

.265. Brown sharp ibd, with much comminuted shell-debris ;
E eoe corroded and eroded ; small splinters of

wood, freely diffi used.

285. Grey ee ee sand, with wre

292. Greyish-white sand, very fine-grained ; the coarser pene
of translucent sub-angular ees z grains up
5 mm. diameter; fossiliferous, and splinters ot
carbonised wood

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EocEnE Fossits FROM MULGUNDAWA-BORE.*

Lamna, sp.

‘Otodus, sp.

Otolithes

Fusus, n.sp., aff. sculptilis
Lampusia oligostira
Marginella sub-Wentworthi'

Uromitra, n.sp., aff. suberenu-

s
Nation AMO n. i
N atica Aldin

» SP.
Bullinella, n.sp., aff. aratula

Dentalium subfissura
Dey (s
a dissimilis
Pan Foulcheri (?)
Amussium Zittelli
Crenella globularis
Septifer, n.sp., aff. fenestratus
Nucula Teniso

Limopsis creen var.

mopsis,
Barbatia fr
Barbatia limatella
Barbatia, sp.

Trigonia Rn
Crassatella communis, var.
Cardita, n.sp.

Carditella, n.sp., aff. polita
Verticordia, n.sp., aff. rhom-
boid

Lucina despectans
Chi

Dosinia imparistriata
Tellina porrecta

aff Hamil-

onensis
Myadora lamellata
Myadora, n.sp., aff. prelonga
Corbula pyxidata
Terebratulina gg;
Magasella lunat
Selenaria
Lunulites and many other
Pol

Cidaris, sp. (spines)
Echinus Woodsii (?)
Monostychia australis (?)
Scutellina patella
Fibularia gregata
Astrogonium sp.
Pentacrinus
Comatula sp.
Graphularia senescens (?)
= sp.

bellum pistinctum
Fiabellum dedicellare
Placotrochus deltoideus
Notocyathus viola
Notocyathus excisus
Notocyathus punctatus

Deltocyathus, sp.

* The fragm
instances of a — specific
by Mr. J. Dennan

entary condition of the fossils does not permit
assignmen

many
ent. The corals were MAT

DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ACANTHIZA
- (A. tenuirostris).

By A. Zıerz, F.LS., vens — M Director of the
S.A. Mu

[Read November 6, 1900.]

This new species is nearest allied to Acanthiza reguloides.
Its more diminutive size, its feeble bill, the different ghade of
rump feathers, and the absence of the bright rufous
colouring of the basal third of the tail feathers, Pange.
it fro canthiza reguloides, which, according to Gould,
a >” common species about Adelaide.
wo specimens have been collected by R. M. Hawker, Esq.,
at pont. Creek, in eges. 1895.
propose for this new species the name Acanthiza tenui-
rostris (the aft: billed Tit
With the general characters of A. (Geobasileus) reguloides.
Upper surface of a more greyish tinge instead of olive brown.
The feathers on the forehead are much darker and broadly
margined with white. Upper tail coverts of a yellowish
white tinge; in A. reguloides they are ochreous. Under sur-
face whitish and slightly tinged with yellow. Throat and
chest still paler, each feather with a very slight broken
margin of brown. ase of tail only with a faint, just per-
ceptible, rufous tinge. The external margin of the centre
tail feathers, and the tips of all greyish. Upper tail coverts
whitish, slightly shaded with fawn
or comparison ive the measurements of A. reguloides
from the hills east of Adelaide, together with those of the
new bird.

A, tenuirostris. A, reguloides.
Total length ne 3°5 in ches ie 4 inches
Length of wing ... . 19 T Bi
Length of culmen... Aes au uuo
Height of bill — ... | m" "23:4

FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA,
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND

SPECIES.
By the Rev. T. BLACKBURN, B.A.
XXVII.
[Read October 2, 1900.]
LAMELLICORNES.
HETERONYX.
H. grandis, ‚Sp. no R obustus, elongato-ovatus ; ; postice mani-

obt
clypeum sito ; antennis 9-articulatis ; coxis posticis ad latera
quam metasternum parum breviori us, quam segmentum
ventrale 2°" multo longioribus; tarsis posticis minus elonga-
tis, articulo 2° quam 1” manifeste longiori; unguiculis
TEReRO ule parte apicali quam. basalis parum breviori.
Wi L
This T in Heteronyz is near piceus, Blanch, In my
tabulation of the species of that group (P.L.S., N.S.W., 1892, pp.
488-9) it must be placed next after alpicola, Blackb., as follows :—

HHHH. Sculpture of pronotum very much finer and
oser than of head and elytr. is, Blackb.
he elytra of this species are not truly dius ge their
surface is slightly enay visibly) uneven owing e presence

of faint longitudinal wide elevations, the margins of which, from
a certain point c oe view, give the elytra a scarcely noticeable quasi-
Striate appeara
Victoria ; Dividing Range (unique in my collection).
H

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ELATERID.
CHROSIS.
C. angusticollis, sp. nov. (Mas). Angusta ; valde elongata ;
rr rothorace coccineo (in medio nigricanti), cap ite
antennisque a pedibus piceis; capite sparsim fortiter

10 ad 7) longiori, supra longitudinaliter profunde trisulcato,
ut caput pubescenti, sparsim. subtiliter (ad latera magis
crebre magis grosse) punctulato, antice fere truncato, lateri-
bus sat parallelis, angulis posticis fortiter divaricatis ;
elytris breviter (apicem. versus magis longe) pubescentibus,
ad apicem oblique subtruncatis, sat fortiter striatis, a r-
stitiis leviter convexis punctulatis. Long., 81;
(vix
Allied t to C. trisulcatus, Er., but extremely distinct by, inter
alia multa, the very much sparser puncturation of its head and
prothorax and the narrower and more parallel form, and the more
abruptly pia dpa hind angles of the latter. The antennes con-
siderably passing od ee of the prothorax indicate the specimen
before me to be a
Victoria Ditidine. Banga.
PARASAPHES.
= rete sp. nov. Angustus; valde elongatus ;
rrugineus, capite antennis et prothoracis vittis 2 nigrican-
tibus femoribus infuscatis; capite crebre subfortiter
punctulato, pilis albidis sat elongatis vestito ; prothorace
quam ad basin latiori ut 10 ad 8 (quam ad medium latiori ut
10 ad 7) longiori, supra longitudinaliter sat profunde 5-
sulcato, in partibus medianis elevatis glabro sparsim sub-

subtiliter (latera versus magis grosse) rmm antice
subtruncato, lateribus fere rectis, angulis pos haud
divaricatis ; elytris breviter ubescentibu us, ad aeo i vado
acuminatis, sat fortiter striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis
punctulatis. Long., 71; lat., 14
There seems to be no doubt that this species and the following
should be associated generically with that for which Dr. Caudeze

former is (not horizontal but) strongly declivous ; and the nn
have their basal joint very elongate, the 2nd scarcely half a
long as the basal une and slightly dilated : the 3rd still hörten,

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more strongly dilated and sublamellate ; the 4th extremely small
(little more than a nodule); the 5th abo ut the same length as
the preceding 3 togan I have be fore me specimens of an

defined and continued more or less distinctly to, or even beyond,
the middle of the pronotum. y specimen of P. quinquesulcatus
is probably a female, as the antenn® scarcely pass the base of
the prothorax.
Victoria (Dividirg Range).
r: pere Sp. no Angustus; valde elongatus; niger, pronoti
miaii lateribusque et prosterni lateribus rufis;
filie crebre subfortiter punctulato, pilis albidis sat elonga-
tis vestito; prothorace quam ad basin latiori ut quam
ad medium latiori ut 7 ad 5) longiori, supra longitudinaliter
sat profunde 5-sulcato, in partibus medianis elevatis glabro
sparsim subfortiter punctulato, alibi ut caput pubescenti,
confertim subtiliter (latera versus magis grosse) punetulato,
antice subtruncato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, angulis posticis
divarieatis ; elytris breviter pubescentibus, ad apicem valde
acuminatis, sat fortiter striatis, interstitiis punctulatis
leviter convexis.
Maris antennis prothoracis basin — feminse parum, super-
antibus. Long., 54—64 ].; lat., 135—143 1.
Victoria (Dividing Range).

MALACODERMID.
SELENURUS.

S. fernshawensis, sp. nov. Elongatus; capite nigro, antice
flavo-notato, mandibulis plus minusve luteis, antennis pal-
pisque nigro-piceis ; prothorace luteo, macula magna dis-
coidali nigra ornato, hac antice margines laterales attingenti,
postice bifida ; elytris viridibus ante apicem macula suturali
flava ornatis ; corpore subtus nigro, flavo-maculato ; pedibus
piceis ; — sesta dte leevibus ; hoc subquadrato postice
paullo angustato, margine antico late rotundato, angulis
subrotundatis ; elytris crebre rugulose punctulatis, quam
abdo multo Pest iei ad apicem dehiscentibus.
Long., 4—5 1; lat, 4—1 1.

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^ Congeneric with a species I described in Tr.R.S., S. A., 1892,
pp. 220-221, but referred to Selenurus subject to the doubt I
have already expressed (loc. cit).

Victoria (Fernshaw).

TELEPHORUS.

T. pulchellus, Macl. var. D notophilus. IT have before me two

Eee belonging to the S.A. Museum, which appear to be a
kable variety Oca. pulchellus. They differ from the type

in si Kavi ving a wide very conspicuous and dine ply limited yellow
fascia on the elytra a little behind the middle. I can, however,
find no other difference. I have seen hundreds of specimens of
T. pulchellus, but never one (except these) in which the elytra

were not unicolorous. The specimens before me are from Carrie-
ton (South Australia) and are male and female.

CLERIDZE.
The Australian Cleride are much i n need of revision, such

nothing to do. The following notes are a contribution to the
task of reducing them to order
I am not aware of the existence of any memoir showing the
relation to each other of the various genera among which the

des Coléoptéres," where such of the Australian genera as were
known forty-three years ago find a piss among the Clerid genera
of the world, and some memoirs by t e Rev. IL orham
dealing with such as were known of en in certain groups of
the Cleride twenty-four years ago, where again they are placed
among the Cleride of the world belonging to those groups.

statement ofthe characters distinguishing the genera to which
the known Australian Oleride can be referred for the use of
students in Australia

Herr Lohde has recently published a catalogue of the Cleride
of the world, which is of the highest possible value, and includes
nearly all the corrections that have been made in the generic
position of the Australian species, but as a large part of the
erroneous generic determinations ot the bibit describers have

ti

known to occur in Au serata and then furnish more particular
notes concerning some of those genera, together with the diag-

117

nosis of two new emu ME of some new species, and a
revision of one genus (Au
Tabulation of Austin Olerid genera :—
A. wr more or less emargina
All the tarsi (viewed b above FIRE 5- —
M Head ^ on. ie parallel Cylidrus.
CC. Hea : Tillus.
BB. Genera bot havi ing ‘all the tarsi (viewed from
bove) distinctly 5-joint
C. The front rik (viewed rec above) distinctly
-jointed.
D. Eyes strongly emarginate.

.7 T3

than diameter of part of eye visible ed
in front.
F. Club of antenne lax and lo Clerus.
FF. Mes of antennz abrupt dd compara-
ort Eleale.
EE. ims between eyes equa al to diameter of
part of eye — mn in fron .. Stigmatium.
EEE. Space between eyes much’ narrow
pees diameter of part a se visible

in fron adius.
LORS im scarcely ema s Orthrius
oc. The t tars en ei above appear to
edis nly 4 j j =

D. The Behr doi above) of the tarsi
having only 4 joints arises from the basal
joint being z concealed un NE iei second.
E. u eyes very c
. The apical Joint ji cpm TUE palpi
securiform Opilo.
FF. The apical: re of the maxillary palpi
lon p subtriangular
G. Body winged ... dk .. Natalis.
GG. “y a e .. Cormodes.
EE. The eyes much m e fine
F. The apical ets of ‘the x comin so
not securifo
G. Club = Marco gradual and very
fee Metabasis.
GG. Club « of antenne ‘abrupt and strong Cleromorpha.
FF. The apical joint of the — MR:
m rongly securifo

G. Mesosternum vertical in front .. Zenithicola.
GG. Mesosternum not vertical in front.
H. Elytra with conspicuous basal
ascicles Trogodendron.
HH. Elytra with large basal tubercles Olesterus.
HHH. mne at base even (or nearly

I, Pivestain with a conspicuous ante
us.

median transv: ulcus.

J. Elytra not more than tw
long as (at their base) wide Aulicus,

JJ. Elytra than t

yura much m
as long as (at their base)
ide

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K. The won surface of the

d be now m gulose ;
ion mint Scrobiger.
KK. Apical one- s-thi d or more
ds smooth ; head :
Neoscrobiger.
II. Pronotum aot having an ante-
median sulcus,
J. Hind per much bor and
narrower than front tarsi ... Tarsostenus.
JJ. o» Prag tarsi Sind Similar
Tarsostenodes.
DD. The appearance pt (from. above) of the tarsi
having only 4 joints arises from the 4th
joint bei ^ a mere no
E. Frane club c adem of, 8 serrate
joints Tenerus.
^ EE. CT ia club composed of not more
an4j
F. Apical j olut of maxillary palpi strongl
Meu rior rm hn: ae Thanasimomorpha.
FF. gem joint of ‘maxillary ‘palpi not (or
arce riform
G. Siren very ea granulate 2. Pylus.
GG. E uch less strongly granulate
H. Antennal club abrupt and strong
mu nded later-
ly but scarcely margined ... Parapylus.
IL Pronotum er a rigen mar-
gined laterally.
J. r M e of on ag palpi
ongate-triangular Corynetes.
JJ. Apical joint tof maxillary palpi
Necrobia.
HH. Antennal club elongate narrow
feebly defined Crobenia.
CCC. kpr ped tarsi Soba from above) appear
only 3 j Paratillus.
AA. Eyes en
B. ew "dar at their base than the base of the
rothorax Lemidia.
BB. Elytra not vider at their base than the base
of the prothor Allelidia.

TILLUS
The only Australian species that stand in this genus in Cata-
logues (Lohde's included) are hilaris, Westw., and dux, Westw.
The ae of these is stated by Gorham (Cist Ent.

to
rouen it, but not to be a Tillus. T. Bipardihua is the type of

was confirmed by Dr. Sharp) I have before me a small Clerid
from Victoria which Aree well with Westwood's description of
T. hilaris (a Tasmanian species) in every respect except in being
a trifle small and Nes its tibie and tarsi infuscate. It differs

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from 7' bipartitus considerably in the sculpture of its pronotum
but otherwise its structural characters seem identical, —granula-
tion and shape of eyes, Pass and structure of antenna, structure
of palpi, &c. Like 7. bipartitus it seems to have only four tarsal
joints even under a strong powe er, and it is not easy to feel quite
certain which is the missing fifth joint, but I am fairly confident
that it is the penultimate which is abnormal, and exists only as a
minute nodule at the base of the apical joint. I have no doubt
that the specimen before me either is T. hilaris or is excessively
close to it, and that 7. hilaris is a Thanasimomorpha, but what-
ever it is, it is not a Tillus

T. dux, Westw., is à complete enigma. I incline to the opinion
that its author was mistaken in calling its claws appendiculate,
in which case it might well be a large Natalis, but if he was not
mistaken I can make no suggestion about it — in saying that
the description, and espec cially the size, do not suggest a true
Tillus. I am therefore of opinion that there is no true Tilus
known in Australia. It a. seems unlikely that among all

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size of a Natalis, subsequently (so far as I can discover) not
mentioned by any author, and appertaining to a different genus.

OPILO.

To this genus nine Australian species are attributed in Mas-
ters' Catalogue ; in Lohde's Cat. they stand at the same number
but are not the same insects, O. (Notoxus) ephippium, Boisd.,
and maerens, Westw ing been removed, the former Pils Tr.

A chan nge of name also che Whitei orh., m substituted
for apicalis, White (nom. prseocc.), a synonym that appears to
have e escaped Mr. Masters' notice.

Concerning the species referred to Opilo in Lohde’s Catalogue
I offer the following notes

ongruus, Newm. A true Opilo ; very variable and common
all over Australia.

O. eburneocinctus, Gorh. Not known to me. Probably a true

ilo.

0. ephippiger, White. Identical with Trogodendron (Notoxus)
ephippium, Boisd., as pointed out by me (Tr. Roy. Soc., S. m
1891. P. 303). Herr Lohde does not appear to have observed m
note.

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the palpi of an Opilo I am compelled to suppose that the insect
ore me is not his species in spite of its agreement in other

respects with his excellent description. 1 shall not however
n

O. sexnotatus, Westw. Not a true T as it has finely granu-
lated eyes. I give it à new generic name (vide infra).
. variipes, — A true pilo, iiem; very close to
O. congru
O. Whitei, Gorh. (apicalis, White) Unknown to me. I doubt
Opilo.

Tbus it appears that there are five known Australian species
confidently referable to Oplo and two doubtfully attributable to
it.

NATALIS.
N. debilis, sp. nov. Mas. Elongata; angusta; sat parallela >
subtus sat sparsim pubescens ; supra pilis erectis elongatis

impresso, pone medium utrinque fortiter dilatato-rotundato ;
scutello confertim subtiliter punetulato ; elytris ad apicem
inermibus, seriatim punctulatis, puncturis quadratis (antice
profundis sat magnis, postice gradatim minoribus minus pro-

gracilibus, femoribus posticis perlongis ; tarsis
sat elongatis sat gracilibus. g., 64 L; lat 12 1 (v

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
its black colour, by its distinctly less convex eyes, by its very
much more elongate prothorax, by the very evidently closer and

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from many of dts congeners (id not from porcata, Fab.) im the
absence of ai of close sexual puncturation on the ventral
segments tabulation of Natalis (Tr. R.S., S.A., 1899,

pp. 29-30) the isteti of this species would cause the substitu-

tion for the last line of the following :—

AA. Disc of prothorax closely and evenly oc eme:
B. Prothorax much longer than wide T. been. Blackb.
BB. Prothorax very little ipli than wide... i a, Fab
S.A. (basin of Lake Eyre); taken by Herr Koch n near dude.

THANASIMUS.

There seems to be reason Per) reparei all the Australian in-
sects that have been agg s is genus as incorrectly placed
there. 7. posing’ it New Ta bei been made the typical
species of a new genus (Metabasis, Gorh.), and Mr. Gorham has
already ref ie 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 TAanesimus in my

present discuss its position more particularly. I know of only
three other Australian species that have been placed in
Thanasimus M ., acerbus, Newm., confusus Newm., and
cursorius, Westw.), and they pese tedly belong to the genus
Stigmatium. "They are all described insufficiently for confident
identification among pleat so numerous and superficially
so closely resembling each other as are the species of Stigmatium
but it seems to me probable that acerbus and cursorius are
founded on the same insect and that it is also the same which M.
Kuwert has since descri as S. dispar. I think I know
S. confusus, 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 descri
Stigmatia by other authors, but without examination of types it
is difficult to arrive at a confident opinion.

I regard it as extremely dotadi whether any true Clerus
occurs in Australia. Eight 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.,

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1891, p. 303) as a Hinithisol. Of the remainder C. apicalis,
Macl., Mastersi, Macl., delicatulus, Bohem., are Awlici (as
noted. below); C. DM Macl., is probably : x Lemidia,—cer-
tainly nota Clerus; ventralis, Westw., is evidently an Olesterus ;
C. guttulus, White, has been stated by Gorham to be congenerie
wa Tillus bipartitus and therefore mentioned by me (loc. cit.,
p. 304) as probably a Thanasimomorpha (but I have since
identified it, and now place it,—as noted below,—in my new
genus Tarsostenodes). C. sepuleralis, Westw., remains ; I have

generic position. I note however that in a recent memoir Herr
i rel from which it
seems probable that it is at any rate near Clerus. Perhaps it
is an Orthrius (an Australian ally of Clerus named by Mr.
Gorham and distinguished inter alia by its scarcely emarginate
eyes).
CLEROMORPHA.

his diagnosis of this genus (Cist. Ent, IL, p. 83) Mr.
Gorbam 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
that the species of the two continents ought to be separated, but
says that not having examined any of the American species he
ne ne not baci on the alteration,” and at the same time pro-

s the e Phlogistus for the Australian species, though
curo it "doubtful whether Spinola did not consider an Aus-
tralian species the typical one. This is decidedly puzzling, and

ot seem to me to furnish sufficie on for rejecting
. Spinola's name in res f the Australian o. although I
observe that in his recent “ Cleridarum Cata " Herr Lohde

has done so but (as was of course to be ex ied. in a mere Cata-
logue) without assigning a reason. It is quite possible that the

of the change of name may eventually be demonstrated, but
in the absence of a diagnosis of PAlogistus, —which has not been
aie qa by any author,—I retain the name Aulicus for the

resen
The Keeton species of this genus are in great confusion, not
sea of them having been attributed by their authors to the old
ra Thanasimus and Clerus and still standing there even in
Bast Lohde’s recent Catalogue. Having recently had occasion to
examine a considerable number of specimens of Aulicus I have

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taken the opportunity to study the widely scattered literature of
the subject and offer the following notes as an attempt at a

generic name Aulicus 21 specific names have been proposed for
them, and two species described as Thanasimi and one described
as Clerus have been shown to be in reality Aulici,—viz.
T. rufimanus, Gohr. and sculptus, Macl., and C. ins stabilis,
ew now draw attention to the fact that the following also
appear to be decidedly members of the same genus,— —viz., Clerus

the above Xylotretus serbbilgitie Spin., is stated by Gorham to be
“probably an Aulicus,”—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 fovex on the
elytra. But in all the large number of Auliei 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

indeed in any Australian Clerid) known to me ncline to t
opinion that X. scrobilatus is Pici iua attributed to Australia.
If not, it probably represents a genus as yet uncharacte

But if the “ transverse fold” can he disregarded as (say) a dee

generic identification of X. serobilatus is impossible without an
inspection of the type, but whatever it may be it is not an
Aulicus unless the description is outrageously ee ace Unfor-
UM Spinola gives a wrong reference to his figure, which

rts a ue vu peu the matter (as Go rham points

y been shown to jog It will be convenient, however,
io Rui ok them all now. The following, ‘however I believe
to be founded on error, or mere conjecture

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A. episcopalis, Spin., wrongly regarded by Spinola as a
xfer gi of instabilis, Newn. (discussed below).
allipes, Chevr., quoted by Herr Lohde as a synonym of
foseiulig Macl. This seems to me highly improbable. No
reason is given for the reference. A. foveicollis is penny
undescribed. It is a Queensland species, and the type is at
Sydney.
A. coenae is a familiar Tasmanian specie

. cas s, Westw., and A. tibialis, Westw. (described by
White, Clerid, TV. 60) placed i in all catalogues known to me as
synonyms of A. instabilis, Newm. I consider this almost

s were gi

——— of A. episcopalis, Spin., but the matter could not be

eared up without examination of the types (which are no
doubt i in the Br. Museum).

The following synonymy seems to be correc

A. affinis, Gorh.—4A. samaragdinus, Gorh. pom author says of
affinis. ** possibly end a var.’

A. varicolor, Chevr.— A. multicolor, Chevr. Its author says
of varicolor “ probabi only a var.’

A. alb vente: Gorh.—4. ochrurus, Chevr. Mr. Gorham
has already this synonymy. Both descriptions were
published in 1876. and it seems doubtful which has the priority.

A. (Thanasms) De Gorh.—4. chrysurus, Chevr.
Already noted by Mr.

A. erregen One arty pori Macl. Already noted by
Mr. Gorhan

The following synonymy has not been noted previous

- ochrurus, Uhevr. (—alb ered Seg Pee * (Clerus)
apicalis, Macl. (Macleay's name has priority).

A. viridissimus, Pasc. is (as more fully indicated below) pro-
bably a bytes for A. (Clerus) delicatulus, Bohe

It should be added that in Herr Lohde's fpi the name
“auratus, Gory., il.” occurs as a synonym of A. instabilis,
Newm. 1 do 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 cies 9 of
the 27 names referred to above must be regard mere
synonyms.

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 :

4. foveicollis, Macl. Piactically undes eite:

4. a, ae NA Seems to be differently colored from any
Aulicus kno me. The structural characters mentioned
would fit shy uin

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A. le moides, Pase. I have not seen any Aulicus that will fit
: enti

founded on a comparison with “ A. instabilis, Newm.," but it is
impossible to ascertain (without reference to his collection) to
what Aulicus Pasc. attributed that name. I should conjecture
A. lemoides to be possibly a var. of A. Be acl.

A. mellinipes, Chevr. 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

characters not actually mentioned in the descriptions, as there is
of course a possibility of some of the identifications being wrong,
—but, as it is, the tabulation is right according to the repe
descriptions even if my identifications are wrong,—except in the
case of instabilis, Newm., episcopalis, Spin., delicatulus, dicke
and corallipes, Chevr., of " whic I have not seen authentic speci-
mens, but have assum ed the correctness of my identification. I

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. psi bier ne with different colouring or pubescence in transverse

B. At Mél one of the zones testaceou
C. en ip and a median (or uic TR zone
aceous apicalis, Macl.
CC. Hiyta having on ly a median testaceous zone cresus, Blackb.
CCC. PAHS or the base and a median

D: Fini M of elytra bronzy-red,—no

ac .. Mastersi, Macl.
DD. Prevailing colour of elytra black .. dives, Blackb.
BB. No testaceous colourin the elytra.
C. Apical part of. elytra MN aureo-villoe,

D. Club of à nee B black .. : e. multicolor, —
des Club of antennz testaceo — .. sculptus,

. elytra aureo-vi ~ chrysurus, oni

AA. Elytre not Lee with diferent pona mr
pubescence in

B. V i-is ae black |... de a ... lætus, Chevr.

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BB. Antenne not black.
C. Antennz Mpohing back to the base of the

horter
D. Ninth and tenth elytral series — và
tinet from each other and separa
well-defined interstice to beyond middle

of elytra
DD. Ninth and tenth elytral series not as in
. € is.
E. External face of tibize Mond nene

ing (
GG. Seriate sculpture o en ceases
arn psy is ly before

H. Ne 1 longitudinal sulcus on prono-
hind the front transverse

sulcus
HH. A well- defined longitudinal
sulcus on pronotum behin
the front transverse sulcus
FF. Under acram of head and prothorax

ye
EE. External face al tibie not having a
continuous longitudinal carina.
F. The transverse sulei of the pronotum
connec by a strong longitudinal
cus.

G. Transverse interstices of elytral
foveole strongly cariniform and
crossing several series

GG. Transverse interstices of elytral

foveole fine, nte raised, "—-

rt
FF. Transverse sulci of pron notum
— by a strong longiteliun!

G. Front t of hd oem er both notably
narrower than interval between

the a
HH. Sculpture ot ‘elytra. much en-
base, ually
s apex
or Aoi but eri pes

L "Men in menor wider across
a than across base. (Legs

instabilis, Newm.

episcopalis, Spin.

s nigrohirtus, Blackb.

smaragdinus, Gorh.

robustus, Blackb.
rufipes, Macl.

Plutus, Chevr.

delicatulus, Bohem.

eremita, Blackb. .

amabilis, Blackb.

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J. Pronotum closely evenly and

somewhat strongly punc-
Femora red) .. ertbratus, Blackb.

f

sal part very finely and
very T tit tured.

Femora dar modestus, Blackb.
HHH. Sculpture of elytra much en-
feebled at bare, and behind
suddenly changing to fine
los ely

I. Femora entirel .. mundus, Blackb.
II. Femora a tentaocone or r red .. corallipes, Chevr.

nar
rower than interval betwee

eyes and also sd emargi re parvulus, Blackb.
A. Croesus, sp. nov. Supra cupeo-purpureus, elytris mox ante
medium fascia testacea (hac nec suturam nec rn
lateralem plane attingenti) ornatis, corpore subtu leo,
labro palpis antennisque testaceis, pedibus Elis y (tibiis
anticis subtus et tarsis anticis dilutis ; pilis. albidis elongatis

me beni ips lat., 1,3, 1. (vix).

mn pM 11 J MEC I
Peer an Aulici »" its colour and marking, It will be convenient
compare it and others of its congeners with A. chrysurus,

Chevr. ( riders rufimanus, Gorh.), that being : a previously

more transverse, joint 11 much more emarginate at apex), pro-
thorax more transverse with muen more strongly rounded sia.
fovez 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,

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Spin. var.) from which it differs (apart from colour and markings)
chiefly by its shorter and more convex form, the larger and less
crowded foves of its elytral series, the less abrupt cessation pos-
teriorly of the same foves, and their continuity to the actual
base of the elytra. The antenne of these two species are ex-
tremely similar, also the conspicuousness of the ninth and tenth
series of fovex and their interstice to the commencement of the
smooth apical part of the elytra.
'S. Australia (Yorke Peninsula).
A. dives, sp. nov. Cyaneus, elytrorum parte dimidia basali
a

n
magna sanguinea ante-apicali notata), sac palpis tibiis
anticis tibiarum intermediarum apice et tarsis anticis inter-
mediisque testaceis; pilis albidis elongatis sparsim vestitus ;
capite fortiter minus crebre punctulato; antennis prothor-
acem medium haud attingentibus, eg 9°—11° trans-
versis, 11° ad apicem leviter emarginato; prothorace sat
fortiter transverso, fere ut caput (sed poaniil — grosse)
(—€— antice breviter tubulato, ad partis tubulate

basin tran

i
In this species the apical joint of the maxillary palpi is more
strongly securiform than in most of its congeners. Lacordaire
tabulates Aula as having ea Joint securiform, but in diagnos-
ing the genus says that it is of the form of an elongate triangle,

present species is scarcely traceable. This species is remarkable
for its short antenne, having their apical joint distinctly trans-
verse. The seriate punetures of the elytra are scarcely smaller

A, se
tures of its elytra, from A. cresus by the seriate puctures of 5
elytra not nearly reaching the b base, from A. episcopalis by the:

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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) Mastersi,

rom

ac he characters attributed to that species (apa m
those relating to colour) are valueless for identification, being
common to almost all A he pa of A. Mastersi seems

to bear a general resemblance to that of the present insect, but
the general colour of the i jui is fosa to be “ bronzy red” wbich

distance apart of the localities i which the two insects were
taken renders it unlikely that they are varieties of one species.
S. Australia (Mt. Lofty Range).
A. nigro-hirtus, sp. nov. Supra ccruleus purpureo-micans, sub-
8 cyaneus, antennis (clava nonnihil infuscata excepta) pal-
pis et tarsis anticis passes tibiis jet subtus ign aS

othorace f
punctulato sed puncturis rugis See m... pa

arcuatis; elytris 10-seriatim entis seriebus 9* 10* que
ultra medium vix distinctis ceteris in elytrorum partem
quartam apicalem continuis, Forsch, quam A. chrysuri,

e magis grossis, parte apicali confuse nec crebre
punctulata ; tibiis extus carinatis. Long., 4 l. (vix); lat.,
121.

The notable characters of this species are He a pe appen-
re pu joint of its antennz which is scooped out on its
wide compressed face in such fashion as to mala it from a certain
point of view look like two joints, the pronotum without concavity
or longitudinal suleus behind the anterior transverse sulcus, and
is en Bo with s a conspicuous longitudinal carina on their external

ace ef

AUYUVOO UL UIG

isi, id per in the species I call episcopalis, Spinola ; the
series (as suc ch) 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
4. imperialis, Gorh., but evidently very distinct from itas

to
that species is desc ribed as ha aving its pronotum abruptly nar-
rowed in front and much depressed dorsally.

N. Queensland.

A. instabilis, Newm. There seems to be much confusion about
I

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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

vi
examined ux long series of several Aulici to enable me
to say that it is of great value. To "this clue may be added
another in the fiot that Hiit all the Cleride described by
— are Victorian species, and still another in the size (long.,
*; of an inch) being stated. Now I have taken somewhat plenti-

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 antenn®,—the other
is decidedly smaller and of a bright green colour with shorter
Newman says “Colore instabilis, nunc viridis, nunc
and mentions no other character that is not generic
except the mentio 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 € on the
smaller species referred to above and overloo ecific
difference from the specimen on which he founded his Ihn
(or at all events his measurement).

I feel very little doubt that A. € Spinola, is a species
€ occurs in ee parts of S. Australia and even extends into

- rn part of Western die and is much more

ml in posue than I have found the species to be which I
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 e species differs from that men-
tio : :

y

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 episcopalis, this latter may now stand as the name of
the species.

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A. robustus, sp. nov. Sat elongatus, sat convexus; supra ign. o

dcus lete cyaneis, tarsis anticis ferrugineis sonus pice-
scentibus; pilis pallidis elongatis vestitus; capite fortius sat
crebre punctulato, inter oculos late "leviter

antennis prothoracem medium paullo Foren, all

9° 10? que sat transversis 11? obovato ad apicem acuto extus
leviter excavato ; prothorace vix transverso Fa sparsim
fortius inzequaliter nec rugulose punetulato, sat longe pone
apicem arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) sulcato, pone

sulcum anticum longitudinaliter Secum ig breviter canalicu-
lato, lateribus ante suleum anticum et inter sulcos separatim
rotundatis ; ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (seriebus 9* et 10*
haud carina acuta divisis), foveolis fere a basi ad partem

tiis a foveolarum interstitiis Maa) dur: tubatis ; tibiis extus
longitudinaliter carinatis. Long., 4—4} l; lat., 14—121.
This species bears much general ist a ie 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 tibi.
N.S. Wales (Inverell ; given to me by the late Mr. Olliff).

4. 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 im antennis prothoracem medium
paullo by seamen articulis 9° 10° que sat fortiter trans-
versis 11° obovato ; prothorace vix transverso, supra crebre

(interstitio inter series 9™ et 10™ ultra elytra 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 iater turbatis. Long., 31; lat., 11.

Very closely allied to A. amabilis, Blackb., but satisfactorily

distinguishable by the absence of the subscutellar gibbosity on

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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. anailis there is a distinct external excavation (but
not in the present species). The seriate foveolæ of the elytra are

apical one-third of the elytra, while in corallipes it reaches
nearly into the apical one-fourth.

S. Australia (Mount Lofty Range).

A. (Clerus) delicatulus, Bohem. I have taken an Aulicus in
the Sydney neighbourhood which I have no doubt is Bobemann's
species t does not seem to present very strong characters, its

most str riking feature being I think the comparatively feeble
—' of its elytra, which consists of rows of transversely
quadrate —€— — by continuous longitudinal inter-
stices which are (not, as they are in A. chrysurus, Chevr., thrown
out of shape or zigzagged by still iiber transverse interstices
mcr continuously across several the r rows but) straight. In

interstices are almost flat, er carry a d row of fine an
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 en but merely
becomes near y apex a little feebler and less seri. The hind

tibie and tarsi are unusually slender, which cipe the idea
that A. virt, Pasc. ign from Sydney) may be a later
name for the same insect. Pascoe’s statement that in

4. eg wi elytra are “coarsely” punctured in rows
istent with such identity, but the expression
is sit altogether tiüpblicutló to the elytra of the insect before
me absolutely, although mei méme à (i.e., compared with most
other Aulici) the sculpture is not coarse. Some remarks seems
to be called for on my having placed delicatulus in my tabulation
(a rade with A. Plutus, Chevr., as having the longitudinal
channel of tbe rue 'ékooptionally long, whereas Bohemann
says of its pronotum *' breviter canaliculato.” Bohemann calls it
by the name “ Clerus," however, and it is in comparison with that
of other 4ulici 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.

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A. eremita, sp. nov. Elongatus, sat angustus, sat convexus ;
colore instabilis; antennis palpisque testaceis, pedibus

tis vestitus (his in capite pronoto elytrisque fulvis, alibi
dilutioribus); eapite inzquali, inequaliter punctulato, longi-
tudinaliter sat manifeste rugato, yin. antice subtruncato
quam inter oculos caput haud angustiori; antennis SD
i a superantibus, articulis E: A. que
transversis 11° ovato ad apicem acuto; prothorace quam
longiori vix latiori, supra ingqualiter subtilius punetulato. et

ante suleum anticum et inter sulcos separatim rotundatis;
‚elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (seriebus 9* 10^ que ultra

minus quadratis, So firi interstitiis a Tr 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,
ogs

containing green, b pery, and golden individuals e
are usually of the general colour, —but always dark, except the
front tarsi which e 1 ess e nne palpi a

elytral foveol® confused behind the middle, the elytral sculpture
not abruptly ceasing (or nearly "i considerably before the apex,

the antenne not reaching back to the base of the prothorax, and
having the symmetry of the longitudinal interstices of the elytra
much disturbed by transverse interstice s continuous across several

of its head, and He its elongate tomovhat jor form.
Victoria. (Dividing ee
4. ne sp. nov. Minus elongatus, minus convexus ; lete

(alibi pilis elongatis pallidis) vestitus ; capite sat plano, inter
oculos foveato, qualiter crebre ruguloso, clypeo antice fere

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truncato quam interoculos caput haud angustiori ; antennis
prothoracem medium paullo superantibus, articulis 9° 10°
que transversis 11° ovato ad apicem acuto tik leviter
excavato; prothorace 1évibé transverso, sat swqualiter fere
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titer rotundatis ; elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio
inter series 9° 10°™ que parum ultra medium distincto),
prope scutellum utrinque et ad humeros ınanifeste tumidis,

manifeste quadratis, serierum interstitiis a foveolarum inter-
stitiis transversis multo turbatis. Long., 23 1.; LP

this species the discal sculpture of the elytra boob. 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 foveæ of
the elytra Eu considerably behind the base of the
elytra. It is a shorter and more depressed species than 4. eremita

ity.
allied to this and the preceding species (A. eremita), but is easily

most to conceal the existence of the longitudinal interstices.
Victorian Alps.

A. ortbratus, sp. nov. Modice elongatus, minus convexus ; supra

corpore subtus albidis) vestitus; capite confertim ataie
ruguloso, inter oculos fovea impresso ; antennis prot
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

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arcuatim (et mox ante basin recte) suleato, pone suleum

anticum longitudinaliter brevissime canaliculato, lateribus

ante sulcum anticum et inter suleos separatim rotundatis ;

elytris 10-seriatim foveolatis (interstitio inter series 9** et
d ra

Invariably more or less black. e few specimens o
corallipes (from Tasmania) all have entirely red legs here
also considerable and constant difference in the sculpture of the

] the
bee apical third of the elytra into a feeble non-rugulose punctura-
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n.
S. Australia and N.S. Wales.
A. modestus, sp. nov. Angustus, elongatus, modice convexus;
Supra obscure ®neus, antennis palpisque testaceis, subtus
pilis elongatis (his in corpore supra
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interstitiis transversis turbatis. Long., 34 1.; lat., 11.
Var. (Jimmat.) 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

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tarsi somewhat ferruginous,—eremita being a brilliantly coloured
and much more nitid insect. In eremita the seriate sculpture of

pe
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.

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merens, Westw., to this genus. His statement does not appear

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for elytra (e.g., those of Cleromorpha) which are infinitely less
coarsely sculptured than those of Serobiger. Westwood’s locality
for maerens is Adelaide, and I think I am fairly well acquain
with the Cleride of the Adelaide district. I have seen only one
Olerid 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 maerens must be regarded as a
synonym of T. univittatus.

NEOSCROBIGER (gen. nov. Cleridarum).
Palporum articulus apicalis securiformis; caput breve; labram
m antice emarginatum; antenne modice (pro-

suleatus ; elytra sat elongata, quam trans basin lata plus
quam duplo longiora, »qualia, in parte apicali fere dimi

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sublevia; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytrorum

apicem p ane vel fere attingentibus tarsis 5-articulatis,
articulo basali (tarsorum ichs superne haud manifesto,
articulo ultimo robusto przcedenti parum wis ungui-

culis parvis pairs disaricadi: ; corpus modice elongatum,
capillis erectis vest.
Type Opilo a pate Vd ic Westw.).
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pronotum transversely sulcate near the front, in combination
associate it with the Serobiger group of genera m those
genera its mesosternum not cal in front, its elytra neither

more than twice as long as at the base wide) are sufficient to
distinguish it.

haracters such as these appear to me certainly entitled to be
treated as generic in the Cleride, a family in which many

most famili Metabasis and nasimomorpha, e al
ostenus and Paratillus) being so much like each other
respectively that it seems st to separate them widely, and

resent genus, undoubtedly resemble each other closely in
Structural characters, but each has so distinctive and censo a
facies and type of sculpture that it seems unreasonable t
any two of them under one generic name. Probably vins “thet
life histories and habits are fully known it will be found t
each of these Juge mimics the facies of the group of ine on
which it is parasi
XN. 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
EI pubescenti); capite confertim subgrosse ruguloso,

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palporum maxillarium articulo ultimo leviter securiformi,
antennis prothoracis basin paullo superantibus ; prothorace
c

impresso
bus mediis fortiter rotundato dilatatis; elytris a basi ultra
medium seriatim sat grosse foveolatis, alibi levibus. Long.,
4 1; lat., 145 1.
Much TEE N. (Opile) fomtolotuh Westw., but with the
apical joint of the maxillary palpi so feebly securiform as to
‚suggest generic distinction. Compared with sernotatus the

Victoria ( Di ding Hann

EBURIPHORA.
This generic name must be removed from the Australian

Opilus patricius having been referred to Bee This Tas-
manian insect is veapk dena with estwood's O. sexnotatus
(also from Tasmania,—a species discussed above) and is certainly
not an Eburiphora (inter alia it has not rpg frei
As Klug's is the older name the species must be wn as
patricia, , Klug.
TARSOSTENUS.

Ido 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

p d
Paratillus (Olerus) carus, Newm. Newman's name has priority.
T. pulcher, Macl. The description of this insect does not

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suggest the idea of a Zürsostenus; 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
Tarsostenodes simulator.

TARSOSTENODES (gen. nov. Cleridarum).
Pier rca articulus apionlis securiformis ; labr transversum.
ice emarginatum ; antenne modice (prothoracis basin vix
superantes), clava 3-articulata distincta articulis precedenti-
s 4 conjunctis longitudine sat zquali; oculi modici, supra

inito se sat distantes, fortiter convexi, ‘sat subtiliter ati

lati, subrotundati, antice —— prothorax elongatu
antice elongato - globulosus postice sub - tubulifo rmis
(Homemote prothoracem MAE caue ; elytra longissima
angusta apicem versus sat abrupte (nonnihil globulose)
dilatata, nec tuberculata nec fasciculata, notulis eburneis,

ornata; pedes sat elongati, femoribus posticis elytroru
apicem haud attingentibus, tarsis 5-articulatis, Articalo
basali (tarsorum omnium) superne haud manifesto; ungui-
culis an beppendioniAiis ; corpus angustissimum, capillis

erectis vest
The insect = a I Lese this name mimics in a very
remarkable manner Lon 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 spied: de it.
lerus guttulus, White, is a member of this genu

Ln simulator, sp. nov. Subopacus; lete deer labro palpis-

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(basi apiceque late viridibus exceptis) rufo-cupreis, his lineis-
elevatis eburneis binis obliquis ornatis (sc. linea brevi ante-
mediana a mar rgine externo ERREICHEN et linea longiori post.
mediana a margine externo antrorsum, directis); capite
pronotoque confertim subtilius Ed aos elytris a basi
ultra medium squaliter vix lineatim confertim sat grosse
(alibi quam pronotnm kis magis subtiliter) rugulosis.
Long., 4 l. (vix); lat.,
Very different from 7. ia guttulus, White, in its colours
= IK ngs; also, inter alia, by the notably wider club of its-

pecie (Dividing Range).
HYDNOCERA,
is generic name des drop out of the Australian Catalogue,

This
H. bella, Westw., having been recently shown by Herr Schenk-
ling (Deutsch. Ent. Zeit, 1898, p. 180) to be a Lemidia.

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PYLUS.
P. anthicoides, Newm., has been stated by Gorham (Tr. Ent.

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certainly implies that it is Australian. Probably he was in error
place of capture, —or the specimen was an accidentally

imported one. I have not seen any Australian Clerid agreeing

with eu description.

TENEBRIONID/E.
HYPOCILIBE.

H, veternosa, sp. nov. Late ovata; minus opaca; nigra, anten-
nis apicem versus et tarsis” subtus picescentibus ;
perspicue punctulato ; clypeo utrinque vix perspicue
im i rgi

latiori, antice modice emar inato (margi ine antico in

84 latioribus, lateribus rotundatis anguste reflexis, postice
alte declivibus; tibiis intus haud tomentosis; coxis anteri-
oribus 4 pubescentibus. Long., 8 1.; lat i.

Differs from H. Macleayi, Bates, by the A without any
trace of cost (even at the suture) and from H. impunctata, H.
' Rutenb., by the very distinct (though bitty impressed) reticula-
tion of the elytra which is due to the presence of numerous

for the pronotum causing its outline (viewed from the side)
appea prida strongly declivous in its hinder one-fourth, the
e € con a (with their greatest height— viewed

a
surface of the scute eve even, the reflexed edging of the elytra
notably wider, &c.,

S. Australia (Basin, of Lake Eyre); taken by Herr Koch near

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CURCULIONIDE.
ALCIDES.
A. terreregine, sp. nov. Sat parallelus; sat cylindricus ;
castaneus, prothorace antennis tarsis et corpore subtus

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, cdi juam 3* vix Lune riori in

subtus plus minusve dense albo-squamoso ; rostro modice

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.) 241; lat, 11.
This little species is very distinct from all |its Fon iia gà of
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which I have been able to see the descriptions; from its
described Australian ehe it differs widely, — alia, by
the markings of its elytra, which consist of 5 s h
elytron, one of them being an elongate line on the ‘tem on
of the 3rd interstice and there g n e suture or
lateral margin n shape it closely resembles A. brevicollis,
Pasc. (as figured in Ann. M ,, 4885, T.I T) but with

the prothorax very much less transverse. In one of the a
before me there A Mt of à scaly spot near the middle of t
base of the prono
Queensland qe Charters Towers).
ANTHRIBIDA.
This family is somewhat numerously represented in Australia,

though but few of its genera seem to be lentiful in species an
but few of its species ‘plentiful in individuals. Its Australian
form in

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concern us, since the second aggregate of that group has not been
as Australian. Beyond this I iid em beider d followed
YasoRhéi, as his principal (so far as con the Australian

e.g., tabulates the true Anthribides as of oblong or oval, —con-
*rasted with cylindrie,—form, but in the detailed pn. tit 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 m un margin of the rostrum, so
that the scrobe is visible from above ; in the other case the upper
edge not cutting into the isbérel er of the rostrum and the
lower edge not protruding outwards beyond the upper, and the
scrobe ee being entirely invisibla from above (5) the
form of th
Of the ri genera known as Australian I have been able
to include in the following tabulation all except ns
is a genus characterised by Mr. Jordan (Ent. Z. Stett, 1895, p-

scr
without seeing it. It is founded on a species of moderately large
size, with spinose elytra.

Tabulation of the Anthribid eie known to be Australian:—
A. ee ee inserted on the be of the ros

A transverse carina (independent of - Ape on the pronotum,
C. Prosternum and mesosternum elevated and

contiguous ii .. Bythoprotus.
CC. Pro reed and mesosternum not as in
Byt
D. name tint scrobes visible Hom ‚ER and not
basal vertical and suleiform.
E. Eyes small and very e ongate :
F. Carina of pronotum strungly arched .. Ancylotropis.
FF. Carina of pe straight .. QGenmethila.
EE. Eyes not as in the ing two genera.
F. "be pror proximate on mn the forehe .. Litocerus,
n Carina of 1 RM straight ... .. Ethneca.
GG. Carina of pronotum strongly arched ... Commista,
DD. Rostral isible above unless

they are basal vertical M suleiform.
E. Eyes entire or nearly so,

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F. Rostral scrobes slightly Moet oh from above,
ertical, and sulcifor
G. Club of antenne 4-jointe : 2.
G of antenne 3-jointed Ecelonerus.
FF. Rostral scrobes quite invisible from above.
G. Rostral scrobes d pero ctae en uleiform
H. T a per rfectly even
surface with the hea Entromus.
HH. The rostrum is on à “diferent plane
from the head

Epargemus.
GG. Rostral edic foveiform.
H. Metasternum not extremely short
L — D" shorter than choad
J. Joint 9 9 T ly wider
ime .. Enspondus.
JJ. Joint 9 of antenne as wide as
join
K. je nnal club m pact . Tropideres,
KK. Antennal ae gers articu-
ate Apatenia.
II. Antenne considerably longer than
head and .. Cacephatus.
etasternum Biete epe .. Xynotropis.
EE rongly emarginate Xenocerus.
BB. The transverse carina of the ronotum. coincides
wit e (at any rate in pore ddle).
C. Rostral sc trongly sul Hoc ; antenne
notably shorter than head and prothorax .. Basitropis.
CC. Rostral scro tenn not as i i .
ront coxz widely separated from one another.
E. Rostrum emarginate at apex and not
an even surface with the co .. Phleobius,
EE. Rostrum truncate at apex and Mni an
even surface with the head Streneoderma.
DD. Front cox: subcontiguous or very "narrowly
E. Aussage not reaching the rers of the pro-
thorax, and more or less s
scrobes visible from er .. Ozotomerus.
FF. Rostral scrobes not visi rom a Cratoparis.
EE nns reaching much beyond base of
protho: (at any rate in male) and ex-
are slender.
F. Joint 3 of antenn® at least twice as long
as 1 and 2 together.
G. vr bee of hind tarsi notably longer oss
and 3 together Exillis.
GG. Bacal joint of noe tarsi about equal to
2 and 3 Euciodes.
FF. Joint 3 y eger en equal to 1 and :
ge és Notecia.
AA. Antennz inserte don the upper surface of the ros rostrum.
B. Eyes rounded or widely oval, somewhat finely
granulate.
C. S oed of front tibie with a strong -— pp
to the axis of the tibia Areocorynus.

CC. Pres ^ front tibiæ no;

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* D. Eyes very large and prominent. Antenne
equal in length to two-thirds of body .. Misthosima.
DD. Ey p "Peg smaller and less convex. ORTEN
alf as long as bo

E. Front Rp very long and w .. Doticus.
EE. Front tarsi much shorter ty narro .. Arseocerus.
BB. Eyes narrow and elongate, Sony re .. 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.

* groupe" Ecelonerides. In that “ groupe” the four-jointed club
of its antenne refers it to Eucorynus, 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 antenns
of the insect being somewhat shorter than they should be accord-
ing to the diagnosis.

E. Mastersi, sp. nov. Cylindricus ; nigro-piceus, antennis (clava
m ^

o i erso, caput punctulato, anti
fortiter angustato, lateribus sat arcuatis; elytris leviter
striatis, striis nec crebre punctulatis, interstitiis

fortiter
planis vix perspicue punctulatis ; antennis robustis prothor-

11° clavam compactam depressam (hac quam articuli 49— 7"
conjuncti paullo breviori) formantibus. Long., 41.; lat., 12 1.

The erect setz 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 tibie and abdomen are prettily variegated with piceous an
white pubescence, and there is much scattered white pubescence

UE S sent to me by Mr. Masters and Mr. Cowley.

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graciles, prothoracem medium paullo superantes, articulis

basalibus 2 paullo incrassatis (2° quam 1"* multo longiori),

3° 2° longitudine zquali, 39— 8? gradatim brevioribus, 9°—

11° clavam oblongam formantibus, 9° obconico vix trans-
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verso, 10° brevi sat tr erso, ll? leviter transversim
obovato; oculi parvi integri sat subtiliter granulati; pro-
thorax vix transversus, vix in i i rsus trans-
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angustatus, carina antebasali male definita cum rugis
transversis adjacentibus subconfusa, in prothoracis lateribus
vix perspicue producta ; scutellum sat parvum ; elytra lata
depressa, inzqualia, leviter Vrat striis punctulatis; coxe
r se

his genus is difficult to pn in Lacordaire's .— of classi-
fication, hne it seems.to me unnatural to place it far from

scrobes didus certainly not simply foveiform would remove it
e “groupe” “ Tropiderides.” These are t

as in Ecelonerus in outline, but differ in commencing in a fovei-
form excavation, the wall of which is interrupted at its postero-

genus removes it, however, according to
-Ecelonerides. The structure of the basal part of the pronotum

e,

"s der res vs p albuginosus, Er. are probably con-

generic with this insect, bet the descriptions of those species seem

to indicate a different arrangement of the inequalities of the
elytra, &c.
K

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£E. deren sp. nov. Piceus, pube picea albaque variega-
rum scutellum que dense vestienti et in elytris
iilii i magnam quadratam communem formanti; antennis

perpaucis interrupta et ad latera crenulata. Long., 34 1.;
lat., 13 1.

The common white spot on the elytra is so densely —
that the underlying sculpture is entirely concealed. The spot
occupies in its front all the width between the seventh irasi ah
of the two elytra but narrows a little to its apex where it occu-
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 areuately 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., a nd
sgh ges Er., are congeneric with this insect. Assuming them
to insect differs from them specifically, —from musivus,
inter alia, “ag its Sopsiernyy larger size, by its not having three
fascicles of pubescence on its prothiorax and by the proportions of
its antennal scat. —from albuginosus, inter alia multa, by its
antenne not long enough to reach the s of the prothorax.

Victoria; sent to me by Mr. Kers

EPARGEMUS (gen nov. pedet
Caput. transversum ; rostrum planum, depressum, quam latius

vix longius, cum capite n inuum, mox ante
in angustatum (et hic quam inter oculos caput sub-
NM hine antrorsum ad api gradatim dilatatum,

anti
oblique een (ut sulci male definiti) productis; ante
sat robuste, prothoracem medium vix s superstes, articulis

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basalibus 2 2 jar incrassatis (2? quam basalis vix breviori),
° quam 2" manifeste longiori, 3°—8° gradatim brevioribus,
9? —11? debii -obléngsis formantibus, 9? vix vitatis
10? brevi transverso, 11° vix transverso quam 9"* vix breviori ;
oculi sat magni, integri, sat subtiliter — : prothorax

transversus, vix insqualis, sat convexus, antic et postice
fortiter angustatus (margine antico quam bas ii ie angus-
tiori), carina antebasali definita rer in medio

scutellum parvum ; elytra convexa, in»qualia, leviter striata,
striis subtiliter sat arabe punctulatis ; cox: antice se
manifeste separate ; pedes modici, inter se sat æ
tarsi modici, mare basali quam 2% sat longiori, $ in 2°
inserto; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum
minus breve (quam segmentum ventrale basale vix longius) ;
pygidium eei rime : Pieds pubescens
This genus is difficult to place in Laco —- aires arrangement.
Its rostral scrobes are much like indus of E. 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 ‘‘ suleiform.” It is difficult to say whether
Lacordaire would have placed it in the tes having the base of
the rostrum narrower than the head, the rostrum being scarcely
(but nevertheless a little) narrower a little . in iMd of the base
than the head between the eyes. To me it appears that it ought
not to said far from Tropideres, hole a striet application of
Lacordaire’s tabulation - characters would place it in e
" beer gr but in the diagnosis of that “groupe” * serobes
découvertes " is one of the eharacters, which they certainly are
not in this genus—nor does the species rg a me agree in
general characters or facia with any genus known to me of that
group. I believe Ld specimen on which I have founded this
genus to be a m
E. BELA sp. nov. Picea, pube nigricanti ochrea et alba
variegata, antennis (clava d et pedibus (plus minusve)
rufescentibus ; capite rostroque (his haud continue planis)
crebre rugulose punetulatis, dh longitudinaliter obsolete
carinato; prothorace quam longiori fere ut 4 ad 3 latiori,
supra longitudinaliter sa& 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 ; eorpore subtus >
sequaliter albido- pubsssquhi; pedibus "maculatim albo- e
piceo-pubescen
Var pubis pallida. ae brunneo-testaceo. . Long., En i lat.,
iL

348

a fresh specimen the sculpture of the derm is almost
Hess concealed by the pubescenee, even the callosities near the
base of the elytra being scarcely itecto; ; 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 etae 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

a e

apical space on each elytron. The small distinot tubercles on
the alternate mon 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
specime ns. 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 SPUNT

Victoria and N.S. Wales (specimens in the S.A. Museum are
without indication of habitat, but are probably from S.A.).

ENSPONDUS (gen. nov. Anthribidarum).
Caput transversum ; rostrum depressum planum, cum capite haud
conti

tenn

articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustioribus (2? quam
1™ paullo longiori), 2?—5? longitudine sat sequalibus, 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 transv versis, 11° obeonico; oculi

antice fortiter angustatus, carina nnper basi sat a

proximata bene definita leviter antrorsum arcuata in pro-

thoracis lateribus fere ad medium producta ; scutellum
rvum; elytra convexa, insqualia, striata; coxe antice

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subcontigue ; pedes modici, inter se sat squales; tarsi sat
elongati, artieulo basali quam 2" sat longiori, 3^ in 2?
inserto; unguieuli subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum
modieum (quam segmentum ventrale basale paullo longius);
pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens.

The insect for whieh I propuse this generic name cannot be

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
mi of the carina be regarded as too slight to place the insect in

doubtfally an Apatenia,—but that genus has eyes and antenne

insect before me consists in there bein g only two joints in the
club of its antenna, joint 9 evidently belonging to the funiculus

and being not much longer and wi than the eighth joint.
Judging by the ventral us rm (ess | convex and icum overlap-
ping the edge of the pygidium ore convex and just

covering the edge of the erri in ien Ith ver 1 pon 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 | ullo pone medium
tuberculis 2 magnis fasciculatis ornato; elytris confertim
subtilissime subaspere punctulatis, ubailiter punctulato-
striatis, interstitiis alternis quam ce era vix magis elevatis
(3° pone basin et in medio, 5° ante apicem, tubereulis singulis
Spiers ornatis) et fasciculis parvis pilosis variegatis.
Long., 21.; lat., #1.

This inseet is easily recognisable by the presence, on either side
of the middle line of the pronotum, of a large tubercle bearing a
Feen, of hairs. There is a smaller fasciculated tubercle near

th and another about the middle of the 3rd elytral in-

tantis, and also another near the apex of the 5th interstiee.

There are also very small fascicles (beneath which the derm is

scarcely tuberculate) on the alternate interstices, most con-

Spicuous on the subsutural interstice and becoming gradually less

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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

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.
UE TROPIDERES (1)

It is with deg a. that I refer to Tropideres, >
minute Anthribid described below. Nevertheless, it seems to
lack any character ‘shat would definitely exclude it from ^w

te genu
characte . Lacordaire, is made to contain, at any

longer than the basal joint be in itself deemed suflicient. The .
i2 01

form and concealed, its plane not evenly continuous with that o
the head; antenns not long enough to reach the base of the

its surface even, its Aachen carina arched with convexity

the lateral margin); elytra slightly gibbous close to the
on the disc, but otherwise even or nearly so, obscurely dire
striate ; front coxæ a contiguous to each other ; legs some-
what short and of nearly equal length ; tarsi moderately Cr
; iA

t
middle line about as long as the basal ventral segment.

T. onsen: sp. nov. Piceus, antennis (clava excepta) pedi-
.. busque rufescentibus; pube sat elongata albida disperse

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vestitus; supra crebre minus subtiliter (in prothorace paullo
magis subtiliter) ape punctulatus; elytris indistincte
punctulato-striat Long., 1# 1.; lat., ix).

I have described ihe: characters of ‘thia sed (above) in dis-
<ussing 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 fascie 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, ims E lateralibus magnis foveiformibus
obtectis; antenns cor edium attingentes, robuste,
articulis basalibus 2 lavdi incrassatis (2° quam 1™ sub-
longiori) 3°—8° elongatis inter se subæqualibus, 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

1 sat approximata bene definita retrorsum arcuata ad
em angulata (nullo modo acute) et antrorsum fere ad
latera media roducta ; scutellum parvum; elytra sat con-

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, Hoc which its
long antenne having their tenth joint transverse and very much
shorter than the ninth, inter 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 s sat crebre panovel oh: interstitiis vix subconvexis,
sculptura postice obsoleta. g, 211; lat, 1 L

The characters cited in the epi pies need not be re
peated here. There are three examples before me, all of which

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appear r 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 asin quam caput haud

graciles, imeem basin attingentes, articulis basalibus 2
quam sequentes paullo robustiores (2° longiori), 2° 3° que
inter se longitudine »qualibus, 5°—5° gradatim brevioribus,
6°— 8° moniliformibus, 9*— 11° clavam sat

formantibus, 9° 10° que inter se sat sequalibus fortiter
transversis, ll? subgloboso ; oculi modici, fortiter convexi,
sat fortiter le, ; prothorax transversus sat »qualis,
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, s»qualia, sat breviter

iata ; anti

articulo basali (tarsorum anticorum vix, posticorum mani-
feste) quam 2" longiori, 3° in 2° inserto ; Beer subtus
dente acuto armati; n brevissimum ; pygidium
manifestum sat latum ; corpus supra obscure metallicum,
oa 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
Ohorkynihii) ) together with the metallic gloss of its surface,
renders it very easy of identification. In Lacordaire
tion it falls into the “Groupe” Tropiderides by virtue of the
following characters :—Antenne 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 T’ropideres, from which it

al
’
metasternum which is not longer on its middle line than the
shortest of the ventral segments. The metasternum is oe
short in T’ropideres, but not nearly so short as in this genu
X. micans, sp. nov. Ovalis; sat nitida ; supra picea, dis
aureo- et eupreo-micans ; maeulatim albido - pubescens ;

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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, 111;

at, $
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 wu 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

and some not very conspicuous jjis blotches "S range them-
selves somewhat in the form of two very arcuately transverse
rows (their convexity directed forwa rd), one behind the other in
front of the

Tasmania ; Lake district.

BASITROPIS.
The Australian species of this genus appear to be enti rely
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 he er surface are extremely similar
while in one they are entirely different from those of the five
hr cies have bee rom Australia. In one of

ee
them (solitarius, Pasc.) the alternate interstices of the elytra are
‘said to be “raised,” which is not the case in any of the specimens
before me. The descriptions of the other two are so meagre as

reconcilable with the been tren of B. egrina, Pasc., which is

. in
are all decidedly larger and have two bands of pale-coloured
pubescence neither of which is at all “obscure.” I must
sider therefore that I have not seen B. peregrina or B. solitaria.

In respect of its qe characters the diagnoses of Basifropis
are very incomplete, owing to the want of detailas to sexual
Characters. Jekel (the author of the genus) does not refer to
them, but his description and -— do not altogether agree with

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Lacordaire's statement. The former says that the antennal club.
consists of three joints while the latter somewhat inconsistently

diagnosis affirms that joints 6-8 are grudually transverse and that
joints 9-11 form the club; and that the females can hardly be

the structure of the ventral segments between two of them and

ments are looked at from diiectiy above (the oiv being laid
on its back) the edge of the pygidium can’ be seen beyond it,
while the ventral segments of the other four are ea convex

sight the edge of the pygidium. The two specimens have antenne
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
antenn 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
=” e males of two species.

enus isa very well marked one among the Australian
Anth ribide by the unusual hät of the antennal scrobes
being basal and sulciform, in conjunction with the ante-basal
carina of the pronotum wanting and the lateral carine spatial
nearly to the apex where they do not form an angle. I observe

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 ge under the name
Gynandrocerus an African genus which he says differs from

nigro-picea vestita, hac pallida es testacea partim.

nctulato
P arasin iolute canalieulato, antice arcuatim.

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11° breviter transversim subovato ; oculis in fronte modice

vergentibus ; elytris striatis, striis fortiter nec crebre
punctulatis, interstitiis planis; coxis anticis subcontiguis.
Long., 411; lat., 13 1
markings of the surface are caused by patches of pube-
scence different in colour from the ground. On the upper surface

testaceous brown; the scutellum is covered with white pube-

clothed with pale grey very fine pubescence. On this g
, there is

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(besides the zones of white pubescence) numerous small white
pubescent spots sprinkled over the whole surface. On the whole
I 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. 3$ l), and in
the pale pubescence of its elytra being of a distinctly ochreous

ne.
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 »qualiter punctulato ;
rostro sat fortiter transverso, longitudinaliter indistincte

crasso superne nullo modo visibili, 2?—4" inter se sat sequali-
bus quam basalis longioribus, 5°—7° inter se sat æqualibus
quam 4” sat brevioribus, 8° quam 7“ paullo longiori antror-
sum leviter dilatato, 9*—11* clavam formantibus, 9° 11° que
inter se sat »qualibus vix transversis, 10° brevi fortiter

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

ls in the l white patch, a very small spot on the
third interstice slightly behind the middle (just in front of the
hindmost white and a larger spot on the third interstice

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idee (at any pue of all the Australian ones, and all other
know me). In respect of other characters not likely to be

STRENEODERMA (gen. nov. Anthribidarum).

Caput transversum ; ; rostrum Kin Mim supra sat planum, ad
apicem truncatum, ad basin quam caput haud sista,
scrobibus tovelfghiut bi Oben sübméntum planatum pro-
funde triangulariter emarginatum antenne graciles, arti-
culis basalibus 2 quam sequentes Kiütloribi (2° breviori)
articulis 3*— 8^ gradatim brevioribus, 9°—11° clavam dis-

tinctam formantibus, hac laxe articulata ; oculi teens fere
integri, sat convexi, minus fortiter granulati ; prothorax
fortiter transversus, transversim fortiter convexus, carina
"uq nulla, carina basali ad latera angulata et antror-
m ad latera media producta; scutellum parvum ; elytra
sat t bres: striata, gito subverticalia ; coxæ anticæ inter
se latissime remotæ ; es modici, anticis quam ceteri
longioribus; tarsorum anticorum articu basalis qu
ceteri conjuncti parum (pditéHorMi multo) 1 brevior, 3? in 2°
inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati; metasternum
breve; pygidium manifestum, subquadratum.
According to M. Lacordaire's set guter the small hribides

basal, rostrum of subparallel form, body uot elongate-eylindrie
In that group it is distinguishable by the following characters :—
Front coxæ very widely separated (more widely than in Phieobius dy
rostrum truncate at its extremity, antenne and legs extremely
like those of Areocerus. The outline of the prothorax and elytra
is in unlike that of Ceutorrhynchus. I am uncertain as to the
x of the examples before me. The front margin of ioc eye
itself forms the hind wall of the scrobe.
S. planatum, 5h nov. Piceum vix rufescens, eere —
excepta) et tarsorum apice testaceis; sat opacum

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4ninus perspicue cinereo-pubescens; supra confertim sub-
tilissime (haud multo aliter quam Areocerus Vip eem
De Geer) subaspere punctulatum ; rostro cum capite co

tinuo; prothorace vage inequali; elytris striatis, in gatio

paullo superantibus, clava ing articuli 4"*—8** conjuncti
iori i 10° manifeste) transverso
11° obconico quam latiori jott longiori. Long, 141;

lat, $Ll (vix).
There are indications on the specimen before me v the whitish
‘hair-like scales on the upper surface having been in places con-

.densed into somewhat conspicuous blotches which are chiefl
-about the middle of the front of the prothorax, on the scutellum

"behind the middle is a distinct transverse ae "The

-of the structure of Ar@ocerus but with tha rostrum and scrobes
.of a true Anthribid.
Victoria

S. contemptum, sp. nov. Fere ut preced (S. onem etd
coloratum et pubescens sed abi dilutioribus et elytris

apicem rufis; rostro cum capite continuo ; rote

quali, lateribus mox ante basin manifeste sinuatis, angulis

vexis, interstitiis vix perspicue tuberculatis; antennis pro-
thoraeis basin attingentibus, clava quam articuli 3%—8" con-
juneti vix breviori, articulis 9°—11° elongatis im quam
9° et 11™ manifeste breviori. Long., 14 L; lat., + 1. (vix).

P e z
ance, but is certainly distinct. The pronotum is devoid of
ined uilicieg and the elytra have no longitudinal Ha eig on the
‘sutural region, their interstices also being all but devoid of
_inzequalities. The sides of the rothorax are de strongly
-incurved just in front of the base, and the hind angles of that

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segment are very distinctly pointed outward, neither of which
characters is found in S. planatum. The antenns are consider-
ably longer in jS. contemptum than in S. 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
cies.

attach much importance to this character, as I find D the
-condensed long scales on the small Anthribide are very easily
rubbed off, and therefore very usable for identification of
species.

N. Queensland ; given to me by Mr. Koebele.

NOTXECIA (gen. nov. Anthribidarum).
Mas. Rostrum transversum, depressum, ad apicem arcuatim

3-articulatis, articulis basalibus 2 quam sequentes robustiori-
bus (2° longiori), 3° 4° que inter se sat »qualibus, 5°—8° quam
- brovion bér 9° obconico 8° longitudine squali, 10°
vi transverso, 11° quam 9“ vix longiori ; oculi magni, sat
sobtiliter granulati, antice sat profunde emarginati, supra

postice verticalia ; coxe — subcontigue ; meet modici ;
tarsi antici quam tibiee haud breviores, arti culo basali i quam
ceteri conjuncti sublongiori ; Saato subtus dente parvo
armati ; pygidium manifestum ; corpus pubescens.
The insect for which I propose this generic name falls into M.
coradire's group “ Anthribides vrais" by virtue of the follow-
ing characters :—Antennæ inserted on the sides of the rostrum,
-carina of pronotum basal, rostrum parallel-sided, body not elon-
gate. The genus, howev ver, can hardly be placed in M.
Lacordaire's tabulation of ders genera of that group as its two
main divisions are “front coxw widely separated, rostrum

strongly emarginate in front. Its most striking characters are
ound in its very large eyes, strongly emarginate in front, and

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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

and lateral) the interval between them is greater than that
between the p and only a small part of both scrobes can be
seen togethe

N. en sp. abe Piceo-rufa, pube albida variegata; hac

in rostro vage, in capite longitudinaliter (et cirea
oculos) lineatim, in prothorace vage, in scutello confertim,
in elytris reticulatim et macula in pygidio ita ut annulos

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) UN stris vix perspicue punctulatis.
Long., 12 1.; lat., „51.
On this pretty little iie fine dense red-brown very s short
pubescence covers the upper surface so closely that there is little
apparent sculpture; but, no doubt, if the pubescence were re-

of ashy-white This lo onger pubescence is vaguely s
over the ee Md pronotum and densely clothes x ial
scutellum; on th ad it forms fine lines and on the elytra it

he
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

there is seen to be feeble gibbosity near the base with si
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. Que ; sent to me by the late Mr. Cowley.

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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 speeies must represent a closely allied new
genus Vo espere by characters not mentioned in the diag-

osis. e only discrepancies are slight, consisting in the second
antennal joint being scarcely shorter than the basal one — the
metasternum not quite so short as in Areocerus (as, ing to

prenete it should “a but these alone here jussi the
formation of a new er
M. BE. sp. n Oblon nga; picea, en basi labro
femoribus ations Bas. pu sa fusca vestita, hac
pube cinerea concinne ma cula atim dbi du antennarum
articulo 2° quam 5 vix breviori; supra co nfertim aspere
subtiliter (in elytris quam alibi paullo minus subtiliter)
punctulata ; elytris subtilissime striatis; pube in corpore
subtu 9s iue m in corpore supra magis cinerea. Long., lil;
lat.,
The iiy or whitish pubescence of the upper surface is dis-
tributed as follows :—On the head it predominates (the fuscous.
colour forming two icdaleaaieal lines d in front and behiad: f

on the prothorax it is most conspicuous on the sides and middle
line; on the elytra it forms numerous diari clearly defined evenly
distributed spots, three vato larger placed transversely

across the base, and à common much larger er cae; patch (its.
apex pointing EU about the middle of the sut

North Queensland

DOTICUS. :

This genus is unsatisfactorily close to Ar@ocerus. Its author
(Mr, Pascoe) says that it differs from Ar@ocerus by the greater
length of its front legs, the e 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 gi oes) the. species vii
me legs of Doticus are considerably larger jeg any with the legs

Argocerus. Nevertheless I am of opinion that the generic

Doticus, ‘but com ss ar to Ethneca, with which
Doticus has so little connection that it would be En to find. two

L

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Anthribide much less allied to each other than they are. Olliff's

fectly- with Olliff’s somewhat full specific description that it
seems impossible we can be mistaken in our identifieation of
M. pestilens. I can find no generic distinction Ben M. pestilens
and the insect mentioned above as D. palmari
D. rns sp. Late ovalis; piceus, pube brunnea
culatim ee ‘supra Min ldem subtilissime subaspere
poxtlaton:; prothorace minus fortiter transverso, antror-
sum a basi arcuatim fortiter angustato, squali; elytris
ualibus, striatis, striis sat fortiter -— crebre punctulatis,
interstitiis planis. Long., 34 L; lat.,

The head is entirely covered aon bright n dtm pubescence
except & 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

ashy colour. This species seems to agree absolutely with
D. palmaris, Pasc., and M. pestilens, Oll., in its structural charac-

rs. ltis very distinet from bot , as a species, owing to the
even surface of its pronotum and elytra.

Queensland ; sent to me by Mr. G. Masters as No. 77.

ARJEOCERUS.
This genus is somewhat numerocsly 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

is identical with ER Jfasciculatus, De Gor. Doubtless
therefore A. sambucinus is an Areocerus and it now stands in
our Catalogues as a variety of A. fasciculatus. I have not

De Geer's description of A. fasciculatus, but I know
the — as à Hawaiian Areocerus that the eminent Coleop-
terist Dr. Sharp named for me. I have examples from
tropical Queensland of an Ar@ocerus that 1 cannot separate

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‘from fasciculatus, but I do not ee it likely to be sambueinus,
iBoisd., as the habitat of the lat is presumably the neigh-
bourhood of Sydney, where I have ke en an Areocerus perfectly
-distinct from (though closely ee superficially) fasciculatus,
‚and which I have little doubt is the true sambucinus

The species of this genus are very "difficult to dea with on

specimens,—and also from the absence (allud cor-
daire) of any readily available character for determining the
x of specimen tudying a considerable number of

‘tralia I find, owing to the difficulties mentioned, a certain
number of forms which I believe to represent additional
— but which I hesitate to treat as certainly distinct, and
ndr danni pages I have limited myself to the well-marked
ptr
The diete of some of the Ar@oceri described below do not
altogether agree with Lacordaire's diagnosis of the genus, but T
am satisfied that the characters in question are not truly generic.
The following batir will neis in the determination of
the Areoceri i kno to me as ralia
-A. Each elytron ain a well — e crest bicristatus, Blackb.
-AA. Elytia even at the base,—or nearl
B. Ninth joint of antenn® not or dis longer
than rn
C. sk ae Koebelei, Blackb.
CC. Legs o of ls, co fasciculatus, DeG.
‘BB. Ninth aan t of ies ‘notably longer than

C. ame a enough to reach the base of the
rothor:
D. Antennal po moderately robust Pos as

uch so as n pestilens, sambucinus, Boisd.
DD. Antennal hg ws notably more slender ... lindensis, Blackb.
CC. Antenne n aee enough to reach base of
ee asperulus, Blackb.
A. era sp. nov. O val. minus ve ; sat convexus;
picea, laete bru runnea dense vestita, hac pube cinerea et
ER variegata (hac in pe ad latera et medium et

sparsissime maculatim
dispositis); antennis prothoracis basin attingentibas 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
punetulato, angulis posticis acutis; elytris crebre aspere

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(quam pronotum vix magis subtiliter) punctulatis, striatis-
striis puneturis 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 hiat Olliff sed

minus elevatam) ; femoribus ad apice aud ut. dens pro-
ductis ; ; se sat fortiter (fere ut A. nd De Geer)
elongat

Maris ma anticis intus ciliatis ; tarsis anticis quam feminæ
multo robnetioribus, et setulis elongatis vestitis. Long.,
1—13 l; lat., 2—3 1.

Readily dista gushabla among the Australian Areoceri 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-
spieuous. Compared with Doticus palmaris, Pasc., and pestilens,
Oliiff, the present species is, inter alia, very much smaller and
narrow
EREE ; given to me by Mr. Koebele.

A. Koebelei, sp. nov. Sat late ovalis ; sat convexus ; nigricans,

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. bicris

sed magis transverso; elytris fere ut A. bicristati,
interstitio 3° basin versus haud gibboso ; femoribus ut
A. bieristati ; tarsis quam A. bicristati magis robustis, minus

at. rh

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elongatis.
Maris tibiis anticis leviter sinuatis, intus ciliatis et subtiliter
crenulatis ; tarsis anticis breviter pilosis et leviter dilatatis.

Readily diitupishsble f rom 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 A. bicristatus. In a fresh
specimen hs whitish pubescent spots stand out very conspicuously
on the blackish general surface. hoy m a slight mottling on

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'stices of the elytra. I have two examples sent to me by Mr. Masters

which may possibly represent a eria allied distinct species, as
they are of even broader an more obust form than the t e,

as given to me by Mr. Koebele.
Ai alec sp. nov. Mas. Brevis; latus ; sat convexus ; 3 rufo-
unneus, sternis et antennarum clava piceis ; pube cinerea
in i pap ids vestitus sicut partes haud pubescentes ut notule
obscure apparent (harum presertim prse est in elytris
notula magna me subsuturalis,— emplis nonnullis

elytris: striato - punctulatis, interstitiis confertim aspere
punctulatis ; amo subtus (anticorum parte media acùte
trispinosa) mox ante apicem profunde

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se anguste separatis. Long., 1—12 1; lat., 3

This species is at once separable from the p roosting two

AMAA and Koebelei) and from petii ag De G., by the

peculiar structure of the front femora of its e. The e markings

(resulting from the presence of spaces on which the ashy pube-

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
hind. The other parts of the elytra devoid of ashy pubescence
appear as small spots running into indistinct oblique fasciz,—in
some examples their fascia-like disposition scarcely discernible.
Although I MA taken about seven specimens of this insect,
they are all m
S. Australia (Eyre's Peninsula).

4. sambucinus, Boisd. Precedenti (A. lindensi) affinis ; minus
brevis; antennarum clava magis robusta; elytris ris ad basin
haud vel vix in ep ee emt "eh notatis; tarsoru:
anticorum artieulo basali sat majori. SER

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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 p icum
eminæ femoribus anticis ad apicem vix deors roduct
tibiis intus haud crenulatis, tarsis haud ires sat
vestitis. Long., 13—12 1.; lat., „5 l

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 /indensis (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 anii 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

punctulato, angulis posticis extrorsum manifeste prominulis ir
elytris striatis, striis nn interstitiis aspere
subfortiter crebre punctulatis ; femoribus mox ante apicem

eorsu
parvus) acuto; tarsis quam A. fasciculati, De Geer, sat
brevioribus sat robustioribus ; coxis om inter se sat late
separatis. Long., 14 1.; lat., Ot (vix
I am not sure that a new genus ought i in to be formed for
this insect on account of its short antenns, comparatively widely
separated front cox®, and curiously shaped femora, but as. in the
preceding two species the first of the above characters is
approached yeg the last is even exaggerated, I think they may
be a gradual divergence from the typical characters-
of NU. rather than the indieation of a really distinct
genus. The present species did ss its elongate oval form an
pubescence not condensed into spots (I do not think the two
specimens — me are Pei ea has scarcely the facies of
reocerus, but the preceding two "reis (which are undoubtedly
allied to it) com quite the facies of Areocerus. The insertion of

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the antennz is altogether as in a typical Areocerus in being
slightly nearer to the middle line of the t pA rostrum than
is the inner margin of the eye. The s ns before me are
females. Their antennal club is short and ace stout.

S. Australia; Eyre’s Peninsula.

ARJEOCERODES (gen. nov. Anthribidarum).
Caput transversum ; rostrum transversum, supra sat lanum, ad
4

scrobibus ut Ar@oceri ; antenn® prothoracis basin paullo

oblongo-ovales haud (vel vix) emarginati, grossissime granu-
lati ; prothor. orax transversus, equalis, antice modice angus-
tatus, carina antebasali nulla; carina basalis ad latera
angulata et antrorsum brevissime producta ; scutellum
angustum ; elytra convexa, sequalia, striata, atriis fortiter
nec crebre punctulatis ; coxs antice sat con tigus ; ; es
modici, anticis quam ceteri longioribus; tarsi modici,
articulo 3° in 2* profunde inserto ; unguiculi subtus dentati.
tete d near to Areocerus, but of evidently more cylindric
with narrow, elongate, very coarsely granu eyes

The lerari is the smallest Anthribid that I have see
lilliputanus, sp. nov. Pallide testaceus, ie clava
obscura; pube albido-testacea vestitus, hac in elytris trifa-

B.

granulatis ; prothoracis ge posticis Preis. visis) re-
rorsum acutis. ong., l (vix); lat.,

e xcessively minute ill at once distinguish
this insect from all the previously described Aus n
Anthribi

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 Lefèvre’s descriptions
that I can feel no doubt of their yuji But I think the

genus is not ge; tly placed next to Zdus it seems to me very
much closer to Colaspoides, of which it genet reproduces ud
prosternal Panne. M. vre in characterises t

LH

Edusite inter alia ‚by the phrase “prosternum oblongum E =
yet places Cleptor in that group in spite of his diagnosis of its

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prosternum as being “latius quam longum." T can really find
no very marked character to distinguish Cleptor from Colaspoides
except in its eyes being almost without sinuation. M. Lacordaire
distinguished the “ Edusites” from the ** Endocephalites" (con-
taining Colaspoides) by the presence in the former of transverse
elytral rugosities, but this distinction is not reliable. M. Lefevre
mentions the rugosities as only “generally” present in the
former group, M. Lacordaire himself admits that in some Edusites

equipped than I am for studying a large cosmopolitan collection
of Eumolpides, 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 Oleptor. It is

ever published such a genus and species, Possibly the genus
was published at such time as to forestal Neotax is, 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.

Haroldi, sp. nov. Glaber, supra cyanescens viridi-micans,
subtus niger (certo adspectu aureo-vel cupreo micans), anten-
nis ferrugineis apicem versus obscurioribus, ibus piceis
plus minusve rufescentibus; pronoto crebre subtilius punc-
tulato, puncturis singulis oblongis ; scutello levi ; ; elytris in
disco medio crebre fortiter (in ceteris partibus minus bsc

a

minus id vix seriatim punctulatis, pone basin vix
manifeste impressis, pone humeros nero. hdepeotu casto
sim leviter me. Long., 24 1.; lat., 13 1.

pared with C. rufimanus, Lef., the tenen is considerably

more closely we i with the lateral puncturation much more
evidently offering a longitudinally rugate appearance, while the
semp of the elytra is much finer near the lateral margins ;
the form also is notably less convex. Compared with C. inermis,
us, Har 2 intér alia multa there is scarcely any

indication of a "-— impression near the base of the elytra.

N. Queensl

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NEOCLES.
N. gue sp. nov. Minus elongatus; piceus plus miuusve
etallico- bici capite antennis palpis femoribus tibiis
afa sque: rufis; pube aureo-brunnea (hae nonnihil macu-
latim disposita) vestitus ; capite sat profunde ruguloso ;
prothorace quam ongiori vix latiori, regum leviter
angustato (nihilominus, superne viso, fortiter angustatus
apparet), antice valde producto, fortiter granalo so-ruguloso,
longitudinaliter leviter late sulcato, lateribus minus arcuatis,
angulis anticis sat rectis posticis obtusis ; elytris subseriatim
confertim punctulatis et granulatis, nullo modo costatis.
ng., 34 L; lat., 121

nus is remarkable among the Zwmolpides by the

duced the pronotum (viewed in a somewhat rem $ x tion

front ^ dins The present species differs from N. sulcicollis by,
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.

CASSIDIDZ.

Mid on a apectin en of 0 mera, Germ., which varies from the
type in having its pli more or less spotted with black. I
have taken in com y specimens with and without dark spots.
Herr Spaeth does m [fear C. mera, to which his insect is at
any rate extremely close.

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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

Hopal Society ot South Australia

For 1899-1900.

nt nn mn s

ORDINARY MEETING, NOVEMBER 7, 1899.

W. L. Cretanp, M.B. (President) in the chair.

ExninrTs.—J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. exhibited a ferruginous:
sandstone of peculiar form, and some calcareous travertine,
the latter showing rem arkable weathering; both specimens-
from the Lake Eyre distict. Mr. S. Dixon some specimens:
from Mount Morgan mine, and described the conditions
under which they were found. Also he gave a description
of the ecu Bag machinery by which 20,000 tons of ore
were treated on the mine per month, and referred to the
liberal and lesen policy pursued by the directors oy
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 — 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 . Preuss more recently, which
tended to prove that plants must manufacture their own
mineral matter.

Parer.—“Notes on the Cliffs Separating Aldinga and
Myponga Bays,” by Epwarp Vincent Crank, B.Sc.

ORDINARY MEETING, DECEMBER 5, 1899.
W. L. CLELAND, es B. |. in the chair
Exsısırs.—J. G. on gr, FLS, exhibited a —
lying in a matrix vi artz from near Williamstown A

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careous rock from the vicinity of Cape Jervis from a raised
beach above the Till, and mentioned that Second Valley was
well wo mL a visit, "being 6 vidently M di out of the

Homotaxis,” by Pror. RaLpH Tare, F.G.S. (Withdrawn

ORDINARY MEETING, APRIL 3, 1900.

Wk i — M.B. (P — in the chair.
Exuisits.—Mr. GrrTINS showed the fruit of a Japanese
ding are which Mr. J. G. 0. Tepper subsequently dis-

&c., and made some interesting remarks on this troublesome
insect.

PAPERS. —“A Collection of Birds Skins from Kalgoorlie,
W.A.” by Rosert Hatt. “Further Notes on Australian
Coleoptera, &c.," by Rev. THOMAS BLACKBURN, B.A.

ORDINARY MEETING, May 1, gg.
W. L. Crgnaxp, M.B. (P — - - chai
_ Exuisrrs—Preswent, referring to xe. of last mest-
ing, stated that it had been. noticed at in two distin
, ra

matrix in which REN, were found from the De

mine, South Africa. A. Zerrz, F.E.S., Assistant Director 2
he Museum, exhibited 20 species of abnormally EY iod
collected in South Australia. J. G. O. Terrer, F.L.S
hibited a pou of wattle tree stem nike riddled by
the larve of (Agrilus Australasie) beetles which ar

destruc a in wattle plantations. Also a rare fomite.
Battarrea sp.! forwarded from Dalkey by Miss Ware.

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PaPER.—"A Tentative roo ik of the Nature of Heat
‘as a Form of Energy," by J. G. O. Tzrrzn, F.L.S.

Orpinary Merrıng, June 5, 1900.
W. L. CLELAND, M.B. (President) in the chair.
PROFESSOR RALPH Tate moved, Mr. HowcniN seconded—

upon his election as member of the ‚Legislative. Council for
the Central District of the colony.”—Carried by acclama-
tion.

Exuisits—J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., a piece of leather
made from hide destroyed by Queensland tick. ^ E. Asupy,
several moths collected by himself; one of which was identi-
fie epper as Z4thosia. W. Howcum, F.G.S., ir
connection with his paper on glacial action in Southern
Yorke Peninsula, specimens of ice-marked stones. One
was an ice-polished granite boulder from a well at Yorktown
Vor in clay 60 ft n own.

ERS.—“Eviden es of Extinct Glacial aon on Sou-
die: Yorke Penia wala a" by Warter How :
“Supplementary List of Plants from Mount Tondhursl Run,”
by Max Kocn.

Orpinary MEETING, Jury 3, 1900.
W. L. Creranp, M.B. (President) in the chair.
PArPER.— The Physical Features of Lake Callabonna, with
an Account of the Discovery of its Fossil Remains," by Pro-
E. R.S

FESSOR C. SmRLING, MD, FRS. (Published in
“Memoirs,” vol. L, part 2).

ORDINARY MEETING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1900.
W. L. Crevanp, M.B. (President) in the chair.
Exuisits.—A. Zzrz, F.LS, C.M.ZS, exhibited two
Mig de of crustaceans, Limnosia sp.? and Chelura sp.? which
he discovered boring in the rie of Largs Bay Jetty and
destro roying the outer Elano, hilst the Teredo riddles the
interior. J. G. O. TEPPER F. L.S., showed a lime fruit
affe a new disease not described by McAlpine in Fs
“Diseases of Citrus Trees.’ W. H. SELWAY showed som
e wild flowers gathered from the foot of hills some tio
Tiles west of Golden Grove; also an orchid Caladenia? from
Monarto.

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Parers.—(1) “On the Discovery of Fossiliferous Rocks in

High Southern Latitudes (2) “Section of a Well Bore
near irn En; Pror. RALPH o 8.
“Th mplete Theory of Chan the order of Integra-

tion in a Multiple Integral (part D" by RICHARD KLEEMAN.
(Withdrawn.)
“Definitions of two new Species of South Australian Poly-
dco e by EDWIN AsHEY.
efimtion of a new Species. of South Australian Poly-
platóphiórgr? by M. M. Maven

ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 2, 1900.
Webi nee M.B. (President) in the chair.
ae xHIBITs.—W. L. Crerann, M.B., exhibited photographs
aborigines from various parts ts of Australia with a view
of re their uniformity of type.

ANNUAL Report AND BALANCE-SHEET were read and
adopted.

Erection or Councın.— President, Prof. Edward
Rennie, M.A., D.Sc., Lond. ; Vice-Presidents, Walter How-
chin, F.G.S., W. L. Cleland, M.B.; Honorary Treasurer,
Walter Rutt, C.E.; Honorary Secretary, G. G. Mayo, C.E.;
Members of Council, Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A., Prof.

Parers.— ‘New Australian Mollusca,” by Pror. Ratz
Tate, F.G.S., and W. L. May. “Further Descriptions of
Australian Coleoptera,” by Rev. Tuomas brLACKBURN, B.A.

The newly-elected President, Prof. E. H. Rennie, then
took the chair, and the Presidential Address, “Factors Pro-
ducing Uniformity of Type amongst Australian Aborigines,
pes read by the retiring President, W. L. Cleland, M.B.
| v. Tuomas BrAckBURN moved, Mr. A. Zerrz seconded—
That the above address be printed in the Society's Transac-
tions." —— Carried.

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ANNUAL REPORT.

—

The Council has to report that during the past year an effort
has been made to create a greater interest in independent research,
as promoted by this Society, by encouraging science students of
the University and the School of Mines to attend the ordinary
monthly meetings, and also by giving more pennants to them by
advertising in the daily press. These efforts have not been with-
‘out success, but the membership remains almost VER INS

The membership of the Society consists of 11 Hon. Fellows,
68 Fellows, and 6 Corresponding Members

The second part of the “ Memoirs," vot L, dealing with the
Fossil Remains of Genyornis newtoni, from ‘Take Callabonna,
the joint aingie of "Prof . E. C. Stirling, M.D., F.
Director, and A. H. C. Zietz, F. L.S., C.M Z. S., Ass itant- Director,
of the Adelaide Museum ; and the Physical Features of the Lake,
by the first-named scientist, has been issued. There seems to be
some outside interest in this work already, and, doubtless, when
it becomes better known it will find a very prominent place
amongst the scientific publie. Mr. Walter Howchin, F.G.S.,
has extended his researches on Past Glacial Action in Southern

S., &e.,

ns

able discoveries; while Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S., has brought
under the notice of this Society the unique discovery of fossil
remains in high Southern latitudes

A card catalogue of the Society’ s books and sauny MU
literature is now being prepared, which it is hoped will at once -
make these valuable works more accessible to the Fellows and
Members.

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

FACTORS PRODUCING UNIFORMITY OF TYPE.
AMONGST AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.
By W. L. CrgLíAND, M.B.
(Read October 2, 1900.)

of Part 3, descriptive of the Calabonna fossils. It is also
pleasing to note that the value of the anthropological work

men in Great Britain. This has led to a memorial being.
sent to the South Australian Government and the University
of Melbourne, that these two gentlemen might be allowed
a further opportunity of studying the aboriginal habits and
customs 1n Central Australia. It is N, gratifying to
know that the authorities have seen their way to er
ing the un and that the princely abet b of

avid Syme, or the Melbourne Age, has supplied the nd
sary funds.

It may be or interes& to the Fellows of the ee if a
Short space is devoted to the consideration of how there

Continental dimensions of Australia, er ally the same
type of features appears in parts se d by hundreds of
miles To enquire why evolution, Viii | is always at work,
has not produced qe diversity of type.

It has been pointed out by Romanes, in his work, “Darwin

and After Darwin," that evolution rests on a tripod con-
sisting of Variability, Heredity, and Isolation. And that.
evolution again is Ted qn > polytypie according to cer-
tain definite conditions , further, that there is no
evolution at all if free intererossing is allowed amongst all
the members of the parent stock, and if isolation in any of
its many forms is not mers. For, although there is a
tendency to variability in each individual, yet heredity in the
event of free intercrossing neutralises this tendency by the.

177

production of the mean of the whole. Under these condi-
tions heredity tends to uniformity of type if the numbers
ra

E then a new B AER N isolation, comes into

play, and an evolution or evolutions of type appear as a re-

sult. The diversities of these results will depend p the
p

separated part is comparatively small, the divergent a
would be proportionately marked and appear at an earlie
date.

ully appreciate the effects of isolation, considerable em-
ee is laid on the species of isolation as distinguished from
the form of isolation, the former being much more importan
as an evolutionary factor. In other words, is the isolation

it is a breeding of like with in the indiscriminate it is
an teet — di members at a simply

isolation ; : simply into numeri ally two equal parts it will
e a case indiscriminate isolation. Unfortunately, dif-
ferent names have been given to s two kinds of ee
r in-

y
of isolation may be at work ; thus, if a group of intergeneran
be segregated into five groups, a, 5, c, d, e, then before tne

M

178

segregation there would have been one case of isolation, but
after the segregation there would be five such cases.
VaRIABILITY.—The most important and fundamental cause
of evolution must necessarily be the innate tendency of all
organisms to vary one from the other, for a close inspection
reveals the fact that no two are exactly alike. It is found

tain directions may be ifte inoperative ee applied to
others. Romanes quotes as an example of the Eee the
goose, which Darwin calls an “inflexible type” compared
with most other domesticated birds. He also fedi to some
extremely striking examples quoted by Weissmann for the
sake of showing that there are cases which seem to tell
against the general Bann of modification as due

es es
ica are habitually compelled to form small isolated colo-

widely separated ponds, and, nevertheless, exhibit no
Bene of character, although isolation has probably
la

sted for centuries Again, on Mount Kosciusko were
found specimens of flora and fauna characteristic of the
alpine regions a. On the other hand, the land

me. of Maderia and the Sandwich Islands present diversi-
es of types as numerous almost as the different sites suit-
able for local isolation. It is evident, therefore, that the

mus

evolution. In the om — where ~ type is pure,
the tendency to variability appears to be l,
conveniently seen in cus Jewish, un and ‘ifellabeon types.
In the case of the Australian aborıginal, whether he is

geographical position. His type is found nowhere else, and
he has shown but little tendency to vary that t so that
the presumption is on the side of an autochthonous origin.

The ee of a tendency to variability must, therefore, have
been an important factor in pode ucing uniformity of type
amongst the Australian aborigine

179

Herepity.— Variability would not be of much use in evolu-
tion where it not n physical characteristics can be trans-
mitted from parent t offspring. A tendency to variability
will exist in all organisma; —€——" the amount o t

be either a help or à hindrance to evolution, as has been
plainly shown by Romanes. In the case of the Australian
aborigines, which has it been? According to the “Law” of
Delboeuf, quoted by ines a constant cause of variation,
however insignific ant it may be, changes the uniformity of
type little by little, and er der it ad infinitum. From

geneous, the homogeneity will be invaded at a single point,
differentiation will penetrate the whole, and, after a time—
it may be an infinite time—the differentiation will have dis-
integrated it altogether. Has this differentiation which
existed amongst Australian aborigines ane accentuate fe
diffused by heredity? Prof. Pearson and colleagues, wri

ing on “Genetic ibo eme a Selection” in deem Philosophi.
cal Transactions of the Royal ety of London, vol. 192, in
their concluding nau ma e the ollowing statement :—
There is, so to speak, in every species an innate tendency to
progressive change, quantitatively tnsatareible by determin-
ing the correlation co-efficients between fertility and Er
characteristics and between u} in the parents and
offspring. This “innate tendency" is no mysterious tors
causing evolution to take cma in a pre-ordained direction,
it is si cal organization of the indivi-

race to is types, as e Bhd supporters of panmixia suggest,
or the — of the imd t

iri selection must not be looked upon. as ar an
otherwise permanent or stable type;
checking, guiding, and otherwise controlling a progressive ten-
dency to change.

Heredity, in the presence of free intercrossing, cancels the
tendency to variability, causing fixity of type. A considera-

180

tion of the marriage laws as described im Native Tribes of
Central Australia, plainly shows that elaborate precautions,
no doubt quite unconsciously, are e taken to ensure free inter-

press the Helen that the most feasible explanation is that
at one time “promiscuity” was the general and universal rule
as di marital relationshi Amongst gregarious
must theoretically be the rule, al-
though in practice one or more of the stronger males will
usurp to themselves all the females of the group. Promis-

would lead to the extinction of the species. Hence is seen
the utility of the emotion ros jealousy, wnich finds its fullest
expression in man, and acts beneficially as a selective and
is oiim, influence. Du an 2 it may also be noted, but
omparatively primine form, and the remark of the
me authors that it is but little developed and scarcely
n amongst the Australian aborigines, throws an. inter-

th o-
pagation of the poche, sus the application of the principle
"that he takes who can’ not finding favor with the cunning
old men 1n the presence of se strong young men, it is found
that the former gradually evolved what appears at first sight
to be a most elaborate svstem of marital relationships, any
neers t of whieh is punishable by death. Although
the term "free intercrossing" seems inappropriate to such a
rigid "d exclusive rend of marriage relationships, yet an
examination of these reveals the fact that they in a most

1 !

n

rn Be ie in some than in others. In the first place, four
groups were arranged, and these were subsequently sub-
divided. If these first ASA are looked upon as a first genera-

B's
whom. the tribal customs would have to be his father
and mother had they been mated.

181
Intergenerant pra
Groups. k

Ist generation + b produces 9

n 2 } 2nd generation.

a
MY
2nd generation ... e + 4 b .
Far «d } 3ra generation.
3rd generation ... a +
€ [i

: A l 4th generation,

The significance of the word “or” in the above table is
that different grou pem i are given to the children accord-
ing as to w ether “ c., &c., is male or female. The above

second generation acco rding to the four second groups
(e, f, g, h). Their progeny again cross-marry in the third

direction, and have been the mean of the whole, producing a
monotypic S ene because, as Romanes points out, na-
tural selection per can never produce polytvpic, but onl
monotypic evolut The marriage laws of the Australian
aborigines are seen, ipfius to favor the maintenance of a
uniformity of type

IsoLation.—As ET been mentioned, een is a Rapp
term having species, sub-species, forms, an a
genus the isolation of the Australian Xy has honi a
marked one, and, comparatively speaking, a complete one,

à us,
essentially discriminate. It has been pointed out that that
sub-species of Bis ogamy called ae selection, which is the

exclusive breeding between those bes t adapted to their en-
vironment, is ineffective to produce divergence of type un-
assisted, except in one Quern M that its effects may be
cumulative ; Or, as writes, it may be occupied with

ears
checking, guidi ing, and re heren ii: a progressive

182

tendency to change. Although it is not necessarily main-
tained that the Australian aboriginal has not changed at all

13 that if he has chan e changed en bloc, and very
slowly. As to forms of isolation, I one of the most
important is geographical isolati stralia, as an ethnolo-
gical province, appears Eum u en secluded to &

tion to this, Australia, over a very large area, presents a
uniformity of physical conditions of an extent nura sur-
passed in any other portion of the earth. Tate,
a paper read before the Australian Assoc. aps P an of
Science in 1888, on the Influence of Physiographic Changes in
the Distribution of Infe in Australia, shows how climatic
differences in geological times have dis affected the
flora and fauna of respective portions of Australia. A rain-
map attached to his paper shows that a cute rainfall of less
than 10 inches per annum has been the usual average for
about half the continent, and less than 20 inches for another
quarter of it, leaving only a well-watered NS chiefly con-
fined to the eastern and extreme northern sides. The
change in climate has, then, affected Australia as a whole
rather than as a part, and there have not been left any
isolated regions where a different environment of sufficient in-
tensity might by a process of natural selection have led to the
^ed evolution of a portion of the Australian aborigines.
There exist also no physical barriers to a free intercourse
bitwein t the various separated portions of the tribes, so that
in Australia itself there was no isolation of a geographical
form to foster any tendencies to variability of type. Another
form of ısolation of considerable importance is sexual isola-
tion. This is also called by Romanes physiological isola-
tion. By itis meant a degree of intertility between groups
of intergenerants which leads to the extinction of the off-
spring. This is what occurs in natural selection, whereb
there is only a survival of the fittest, the less fittest to the
ied PH qais or changed conditions disappearing from the
Romanes points out that such natural selection can-
iot V coliifacé to diversity of type, for it ıs only the fittest type
that survives, and the unfit ee vues from the other
by a process of qoe ction. t, if natural selection
has been at work amongst the hate to fit them for the

variation. Another of sexual isolation is a certain
degree of infertility, which may exist even between different

183

varieties of the same losen and —— more so between dif-
ferent — If it not so, varieties and species would
after a time become indistingvishably blended so as to lose
their ey characters. is infertility in crossing varies
i i less

the MN and also with certain aboriginal inhabitants of
Amer: It cannot be said that there is any appreciable

littoral portions se Australia that, er to Prof.
ate in his above quoted adio since the Pluvial Epoch,
has gained accessions to its flora from the Indo-Malay pro-
vince.
above observations respecting a few of the conditions
of life and customs of the Australian aborigine

sh
tionary progress, it does not at all follow “that it was because
it had no evolutiona power. Such a condition may ee con-
sidered as non-existent in Bor Where no progress
it is because the forces are en e antagonistic,
ibri It is

to variability. The familiar Ventes of t he parr

of forces will make clear what is meant. Let A e a

of intergenerants set in motion by a force BA (variability)

in the dırection of X (evolution). If two other forces Ki
e

Ns. may have an hs ting or a retarding effect on motion
according as to whether their line of action is the same as, or

c COMME

opposed to, that of BA (variability) If, however, one d
the forces CA (isolation) is coh than DA (heredity), am
is represented by the line EF, then the evolutionary ires
tion of the body will be towards Y (divergent evolution).

And whilst referring to the uniformity of type amongst
Australian aborigines, it is not to be inferred that there are
not a number of individual variations in personal appearance,
for Baldwin Spencer and Gillen remark that, whilst con-

e

to cause a divergent evolution from the common type.
the authors quoted show, the tendency to variability is "Enim
and it is maintained that that is the initial mgtive powe

With these few remarks I must draw this address to a
close by suggesting that an interesting investigation might

185

be made durer the proneness or not of the Vadis

aborigines to vary individual as compared with
mixed or less purely bred races. Prof. Pearson and bint Kol

leagues in the Philosophical bra jin of the Royal So-

ciety, London, have, duri the t few years, published
Contributions to t Modal Theory of Evolu-
tion, showing how variatio y be ibited by mathemati-

economic, and biolo ical investigations, as, for instance,
various types of anthropological measurements. They say,
“if measurements be made of the part or organ in several

the sıze of the organ, an y the number of
specimens falling within a Mio des. range, d x of or;
is curve may be termed a frequency curve e centre or
gin for measurement of the organ may be taken as th
mean of all the specimens m red. t cases, as in the
case of errors of observation, they have a fairly definite symme-
trical shape, and one that Presta sf with a close degree of ap-
proximation the well known or probabi lity curve.
A. frequency-curve, h for EMG
presented by the error-curve, will termed a vole nii
en a series of measurements give rise to a normal-curve,
may probably assume so approaching a stable

ti partially
round the mean. In the case of certain biotogiesl sociologi-
cal, and economic measurements there is, however, a well-

marked deviation from the normal shape, and it becomes im-
porno determine the direction and amount of such devia-
more data and the greater the numbe in-

Th n
dissi observations there are, the more correct would be
any such comparative measurements, and we may confidently
expect that the projected extended anthropological investiga-
tions of Prof. Spencer and Mr. Gillen will add greatly to the
already accumulated store. The pr vomp on is that such
an enquiry would show SM ped curve would approach more
nearly a normal-curve so a type as the Austr.
abortos than in > more d European races. —

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VI, pts. 1 and 2, Nos. 11 and 1
FRANCE.

Marseilles—L.’Institut Colonial de Marseilles, Annales,
An pén 4th vol., 1897; ditto con)
Botany of French Antilles
—— A la Société Sciences Naturelles de
l'Ouest VIIL, N

me :
4, 1899; mi IX., Nos. 1 to 4, 1899.
Pii Foill des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 344, 345, 347,
348, 349 to 352, 354 to 356, 358, 359.

190
Paris—Bibliothéque—List of Works and Memoirs, Malaco-

—— Société Entomologuique, Bulletin, Nos. 7 and 8, 13
to 21, 1899; Bulletin, Nos. 1 to 14, 1900; Bulle-
ie 1897- 98; Annales, tome LXVI, pts. 1 to 4;
ditto, tome LXVII, pts. 1 to
—— L'Institut Botanico- -Geologuique Colonial de Mar-
eilles; Annales, vol. V., 1898.
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Belfast—Belfast Natural History and on Society,
Report and Proceedings, 1898-9
Cambridge—Philosophical Society, Paine years 1843
to 1899 “being parts 1 to 17; vol. IIL, pt.
r to vol V., part 6; vol. VI, pt. 1; vol.
, pts. 4, 5, and 6
Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. I., pt. 2, Macrolepi-
doptera; vol. II., pt. 1, Orthoptera; vol.
IL, pt. 2, Neuroptera; vol. IL, pt. 3,

Coleoptera I.
Dublin—Royal Dublin Society, Proceedings, vol. IX., pts.
1 and 2, 1900; Index, 1877-98; Transactions,
T:

vòi. VIL.
Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings, vol. V., Nos. 2 to

Edinburgh—Royal Physical Society, Proceedings Sessions
1897 to 1899.

a eh of Edinburgh, vol. XXII, Ses-
s 1897 1899.
ee mer Mitiboctiples] Society, Journal, pts. 4 to 6,
1899; ditto, pts. 1 to 3, 1900.

Royal Society Year-Books, 1899 and 1300, vcl.
L Nos. 413 and 414, 418 to 423; vol
LXVI, Nos. 424 to 434.

—— —— Report of the Committee of the Royal Society of
London, with Schedule of Classification; Report
of the 2nd International Conference on a Cata-
logue of Scientific origin Reports to
Malarial Committee, Jul

pora Society, ge 1th Session, No-

mber, 1898, to 1899.
Bora Colonial Institute J oaiit vol. 31, pt. 5, No.
5, 1899-1900.

A

Entomological Society, Transactions, vol. for 1899.
British Museum, Catalogue Lepidopte ra Phalene
vol. I. Hand list Genera and Species Birds,
A x

191

London—The Royal Geographical Society Journal, vol. XII.,
No. 6; vol. XIIL, No. 1; vol. XV.,
eeds—Journal of Conchology, vol. IX., Nos. 6 to 9.
Monchesbere MAS MED Literary and Philoso osophical Sc-
ciety, Memoirs and Proceedings, vol.
XLITI., Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5; vol. XLIV.,

Nos. 1 to 4.

Manchester Field Naturalists and Archoo-
logists Society, Repcrts and Proceed-
ings for 1899.

Manchester Geological Societv. vol. XXVI.,

pts. 4 to 16, 1899-1900.
Truro—Royal Institution s Cornwall J ournal vol. XIII.,
pts. 2 and 4.

Inpia.
Madras—Government Museum, Bulletin, vol. IIL, Nos. 1

and 2.
Calcutta—Indian, Museum— Notes, vol. IV., pts. 4, 5, and 6;
vol. V., pt. 1.
Peres Indian Marine Porter Ship "Investigation ;’
Deep Sea Brachyura, 1899; Descriptive Cata-
logue Indian Deep Sea Fishes ; Illustrations
of Shallow Water Ophiuroidea.

ITaLy.
Florence—Società Entomologica A Bullettino Tri-
mestre, I., IL, III. et IV.
Toscana di Se RR Naturali, vol. XI,
, 1898, to May, 1
Milan— Società Taiha FREN kani vol. XXXVIII,
Fasc. 3 and 4; XXXIL.

Palermo— Scienze ^ aturali Ed. Economicke Giornale, vol.
9.
Pisa—Società Tolcenk di ode Naturali, Processi Verbali,
AI. and XIL

Turin—Museo di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comarata della R.
Univer. di Torina, Bullettino, vols. XIV. and

XV., Nos. 335 to 366.

JAPAN.
— Society, Transactions, vol XXIV., "A
us vol XXVI, 1898; vol. XXVII, pte. 1

and Supplement
—— College E Science, Imperial University Journal, vol.
XIIL, pts 1 and 2; Calendar, 1899-1900;
Journal, vol. XL, pt. 4; vol. XII., pt. 4

192

JAVA
Batavia—Natuurkundig Tijdschrift, a LIX., 1900.
Nor AND Sw
Christiana—Den Nele rais Expedition, EU ZEN,
XXVI., and XXVII.
Stockholm—Geologiske Fö Transactions, Bd. XXI.
and XIL; - Proceedi Mi» Bd XXII;
eru Register, vol. XI. to XXI., of Pro-
ceedin
Enten elörink Tidschrift, arg. 20, tiäft 1 to 4.
"— Vitterhets Hist. Antiquitits Akad., Cata-
logue sée des Antiq. Nat.; Antiquarisk
pt. 1.

Stavanger—Museum, Year- Book, 1898.
Upsala University of Upsala, er agr Geological Institu-
E vl IV, pts. 14

Russia.
Kiew—Society of Naturalists, vol. XVI., pt. 1, &c.
Moscow—Société Impériale des Naturalistes, Year-Book,
1898 and 1899, tome XVI, pt. 2; New
i nd XVI.

em

St. Petersburg—Société Impériale ie ri Annual,
8 pt. vols. XVI. and
XXXVII.; vol. XIX. Cake Russ

lendy; Hand-Book, XXXVI., vol., 2nd

Ser

Comité Geol diqud vol. XVII., Nos. 6 to 10;
vol XVIII, Nos. 1 and PEU 10,
Memoirs, vols. VIH., IX. XII, and
XV.

Academie Impériale des Sciences, Memoirs

Phys-Mathem., vol. VII, Nos.
1 í .
IX., Nos. wet vol. Pies ta. * di

vo ;
Phil., vol. TIT. Nos. 2 to
Helsingfors—Der Geographische in Finland, Maddilangen,

Finlands, V.
SWITZERLAND.
Lausanne—Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, Bulle-
in, vol. XX LYNo.128.-wol XXXV

Nos. 132 to 134; vol XXXVI. Nos. 135.
136.
Neuchatel—Société des Science Naturelles. Tomes XXII.
EXIT, IV., and XXV.

193

SANDWICH ISLANDS. |
Honolulu—The dese Pauahi Bishop Museum of Nat.
ist. Polynesian Ethnology.
Maikoina’ "Yol. L, No.
Occasional Papers, vol. i No. 1.

SouTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA.

Mexico—Sociedad Cientifica, tomo XI., Nos. 5 to 8; tomo

XII., Nos. 1 to 12; tomo XIV., Nos. 1 'and 3.

Instituto Geológico, Boletin, » Nos. 11 to 13.
Monte Video— Museo Nacional, Annales o II., Fasco. 11;

mo, III., Fasco. 9 an Re 13.

— moria presen nted to Legislature, 1899-1900.
Rio de J aneita ONE Boletim Mensal, Abril and
o de 1900.

Marc
Sao Paulo, Brazil—Museu Paulista : Revista, vol. IV.

SOUTH AFRICA.
Cape Town—South African Phil. Soc., Transactions, vol. XI.,
1, 1900.

South African Museum Ännals, vol. I., pte. 1,
2, 3; Annals, vol. II., pts. 1, 2.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Baltimore—John Hopkins University Studies, Hist.-Polit.
s X :

í 3 to
Hopkins University Circulars, vol. XIX,
142, 143.
Amorosi Chemical Journal, vol. XXI., 6; oe 2 8 ee
Top: Án |

Botson—Boston Society of Nat. Hist., DIXIE te vol.
eheu Nos. i T 16; vol. XXIX,, 1 to 8;
Mem vol ‘Vi,
——— American Academy ^ Ad and Sciences, Proceed-
. XX, 4 to 10; vol. XXL, 1 to 5; vol.
,8 to 23; vol. XXXV, to 22.
Bu reete d of Nat. Sciences, Bulletin, vol. VI. 2 to 4.
Cambridge—Museum of Comparative Zoology at
Coll

c, Fiji; vol. XXXIV. Jamacia; vol.
XXXV, 5 to B. :
Cincinnati—Society of Natural History, Journal, vol. XIX.,
Nos. 5 and 6.

N

194

Champaign, Illinvis—State Laboratory of Nat. Hist., Bulle-
tin, vol. IL, Art. 2 and 5 to 8; vol.
IIL, Art. l to 12; Bulletin, 1 w
2 (Bloomin n, Ill).
oe Sonn mas Museum, Publications 39 to 44;
ological T vol. L, 3 to 6; Zoological
"aep vol. I.,
Water Birds of XE America, pt. 1; Land Birds
of N.E. America, pt. 2.
Academy of Science, Annual Rep., No. 40, 1897,
Bulletin, No.
e ERE Assoc. for the cobro um of Sc.
eedings, Anniversary, 1899.
Granville_Seientifie Dane Denison University, Bul-
tin, vol. u Art. IV, VIII
Lawrence—Kansas University, Quarterly, vol. VIII, 1 and 4.
Massachussets—Tufts College Studies, No. 6, Science Series.
Boe cn Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. L, 1 and 2.

to 246.
New York Academy Sciences Charter, Memoirs, vol. II,
pt the Devonian Lamprey , Annals, vol.

to 3.

XII., d
ary Library, Bulletin, vol. IL, 8; vol. pee
8 to 12; vo 8, and Hand-Boo
Life of Bun. Wells Williams, LL.D.
—— —————- American Math. Society, Transactions, vol. I.,
Paladin Academy of Nat. Sciences, pt. 3, 1898; pts i
2, and 3, 1899; pt. 1, 1900.
University of P Contributions,
vol ‚No. 1.
— — ———— "American Trade with Siam
Sacramento—Californian Mining Bureau, Bulletin, No. 16.
Selen ew Institute, Bulletin, vol. XXVIII., Nos. 7 to
; ditto, vol. TE Nos. 7 to 12; ditto, vol.
xix. Nos. 1 to 12.
San Francisco—Californian Academy of Sciences, Proceed-

to 4; Occasional Papers, No. VI.
St. Louis— Missouri Botanie [emis Tenth Annual Re-

Academy of Science, vol. IX., Nos. 1 to 5, and
Urbana, Illinois—State Labora zu of Nat. Hist., Bulletia,

vol. III., 1887-1895, Index. &c.; vol.
à Arte. 1 to 10, Tidóx to vol. (d

195

Washington—Nat. Acad. of Sciences, Memoirs, vol. IV., pts.
1

and 2; vol. VIIL, 1898, 3 and 4, 1899 ;
18th Annual Rep., pts. 1 to 5, and 5 (con-
tinued); 19th Annual Rep., pts. 1 to 6, and

or
vols. XXIX., XXXI, with Atlas, XXXII.,
2, KARATE, XXXIV, . RAR,
XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII.
are Atlas, fol. 1 to 19, 21 to 37.
Eureka Dist, Nevada, Marquette Iron-bearing
‘Dist, Michigan, Bulletin, Nos. 150 to 162,
1

Department of Agriculture—North America,
Fauna, 14, 15, and 17; Year-Book, 1898,
Bulletin (Biol.), No. 12, Protection of

Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings, vol.
x Annual Rep. Board cf Regents, to
June, 1897.

Academy of Science, Proceedings, vol. I., pp.
111 t an and 253 to 339; ditto, vol. IT.,
ipp. ! to

196

LIST OF FELLOWS, MEMBERS, &c.

DECEMBER, 1900.

Those marked (F) were present at the first meeting when the Society

was founded. Those marked (1) are Life Fellows.

o
"OS

n asterisk have contributed papers published in

the Society’s "pessum ions.

HONORARY FELLOWS.
*Cossmann, M., Rue de en 95, he

*Davip, 1. W. Epes EWORTH, B.A., PGS. Professor of
Geology, Sydney University.

*DENNANT, Joun, F.G.S., F.C.S., Inspector of —
Stanh

e Grove, Camberwell, Melbourne, Victori
— reg

eS

e Ear vias Museum

ydney.
GREGORIO, MARQUIS DE, paler Sicily.
uLL, H. M., Hobart,
*MarpEN, J. H., F.L.S., P.C. C. b: ` Director Botanic Gardens,
vog New South Wales
*Mxrzgick, E. T. B.A., Ramsbury, Hungerford, Wiltshire,
g land.

Busse, H. C., BA, F.R.S. z eeen
Astronomer, Sydney, New South Wales
MIN: J. T., M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Sydney Uni-

rsity.

Government

CORRESPONDING
Bainzr, F. M., F.L.S., Colonial a Brisbane, Queens
d.

*CLoup, "4. C., F.C.S., Manager Wallaroo Smelting Works,
outh Australia.

eg PauL, Inspector of Police, Palmerston, Northern
erritory, Austra

Niconar, Rev. G., Prem mantle, Western Australia.

*STIRLING, shee, Government Geo eologist, Victor.

*STRETTON, W. G., Palmerston, Northern Territo

ctoria.

FELLOWS.
D d, Adelaide, South
" Adel:
k WIN, Adelaide,
Bacor, Joun, Adelaide, South Australia.
*BEDNALL, W. T., Adelaide, South Australia.
* vp ina Rev. THOMAS, B.A., Woodville, South Aus

-

"Braoa, W. H., M.A., Professor of Mathematics, University
f Adelaide.

197

ec X. L.; F.G.S,, Government Geologist, South
alia.
Browne, L. G., Tr South Australia.

d

delaide.
BRUMMITT, ROBERT, M.R.C.S., Kooringa, a Australia
TOP ps el Inl M.B., E J.P., Colonial Surgeon,
side gi Medical Öficer Parkside Lunatic Asylum
Lectur on Materia Medica, University of Adelaide,
arkade" South Australia.
Cuma teem B. M.B., Ch.B. Syd., Parkside, South
ustrali

- (2) ae et E. " Commissioner of Audit, Adelaide, South Aus-
trali

COOKE, JOHN H., Adelaide, South Australia.
*DIxon, SAMUEL, Adelaide, So "isla ustralia.
Gu

D d
UDLEY, URIAH, "White Rock, MC Drake, New South
*East, J. J., F.G.S., 3, Parade, Norw

FOWLER, WiLnLrAM, Melton, Yorke Pniauli: South Aus
trali

FRASER, 7 C., Adelaide, South Australia
*GoYDER, GEORGE, NOS: Government Analyst, South
Australia.
BB, W.OG BES. Went ena Australia.
GREENWAY, THOMAS J., East Adelaide
wxer, E. W., F.G.S., Metal pene and Assayer, Adelaide.
*HicGIN, oa J., Assistant Lecturer Chemistry, Univ versity,

ela
*HOLTZE, Mior RICE, F.L.S., Director Botanic Gardens, ..de-
laide, South Australia.
*HowcHI HIN, WALTER, F.G.S., Goodwood East, South Aus
tralia

Hueues, Sanur, B.Sc., Registrar of the School of Mines,
er las
| Tuscia: M.R.C.S., MAN South Australia.
Jonas OHNCOCK, veio ilmi

*KocH, Max, Adelaide.

LzNpoN, A. „M.D, Lond. M.R.C.S., Lecturer on
Forensic Medicine, and on Chemical M icine niver-
sity of Adelaide, Honor Physician Children's Hos-

rary
pital, ye Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
Lroxp, J. S., Adelaide, u ustralia
*Lzxa, A. te ur cum, ed "Hobart, Tasmania.
*LowrR, O. B. .. F. Ent. S., Broken pon Me Wales.

MOLINEUX, gene Agricultural
i Kent T ; South Australia.

as e E. 3 ae, Adelaide.

Mvnton, H. "Brighton, South Aus

(L) MURRAY, Hox. Davıp, Adelaide, Eh Australia.

*PARKER, Tuomas, C.E., ‘Rockhampton, Queensland.

Pi
E

198

Puurs, W. H., Adelaide, South Australia.

Poore, W. B Adelaide, South Fnit

*PRIESTLEY, P H., Unley-road, Mic ge

*RENNIE, EDWARD eet M-A., D.Sc., London, F.C.S., Pro-
fessor of Chemistry Univer rsity of Adelaide.

*Rurr, WALTER, C.E., Adelaide, Sou "i Australia,

SELwAY, W. H., Adelaide, South mas

SIMSON, AUGUSTUS, Launceston, Tas

Smzaton, Tuomas D., Biakisten, © liiton, South:

un STIRLING, B.A., Adelaide.

SMITH, ROBERT PAM Adelaide, South Australia.

ee Epw G., M. MD, RBS,
F.R.C.S., Ponie of Physio logy University of Ade-

laide, Honor Director South Australian Museum,
—X South Australia

*TATE, Rap Professor of Natural Science
iré. of Adelaide.

*TEPPER, J. G. O., F.L.S., Entomologist South Australian
Museum Be South Australia.

Tors, W. i. DLD, MA BUL: , Way College.

*TURNER, A. JEFFERIS, M.D., Brisba ane

bep pur JosePH, M.L.C., J.P., Adelaide, South Aus-

*Vanco,. Jodi C., n F.R.C.S., Lecturer on the Prın-
ciples and Prac m Medicine and The ieper
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.

erg , E. H., B.Sc., St. Peters College, South Aus-
irali

Warez, W. L., J.P., Adelaide, South ne
Wax, Rr. Hox. Sir SAMUEL, Bart, D.C.L., Chief Vy vd
and Lieutenant-Governor South Australia, Adelaide

S
*Zıetz A., F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., Assistant E South Aus-
tralian Museum, Adelaide, South Anstralia

199

APPENDICES,

FIELD NATURALISTS’ SECTION

OF THE

Nopal Society of South Australia.

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE.

BEING FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1900.

vening Meetings.—Nine evening meetings have besu
held of of which the following is a list: —

Oct. a Fertilization of Flowers,’ Mr. S. Smeaton,

Nov. 21—Reports of Excursion to Port Victor. Various
mbers

1900.
March eng Sy Ror of Science Congress held at Melbourne
n January, 19 Messrs. M. S. Clark and

s. Smeaton, B.A.

April 24—Results of Easter Encampment of Boys Field
Club, Port Noarlunga. r. E. Ashby

May 15—“How Plants Live and Grow,” Mr. J. a. oO.
T

epper
June 19— “Seeds and their Distribution,” Mr. S. Smeaton,

July 17—“The Structure of Shell Fish," Mr. R. J. M. Clucas,
Aug. 21— "The m of Plants,” Miss E. F. Haycraft,
B.

Sept. 18—Annual Meting Chairman’s Address, “Australian
Birds,” Mr. E. Ashby.
The ge i ghee meetings has been well sustained,

been a course of papers on Structural Botany. In addi-
tion to the seeds and leaves of plants, the chemistry of their
growth and the question of fertilization have been dealt with.

200

Other points are to be touched upon in subsequent addresses.

hairman took up the subject of birds, which has not occu-

i much attention with us since the inception
Ornithological Association. Exhibits have, as usual, ag hts
a wide range in Natural History, and have formed a
teresting feature of these meetings.

An ne TE aos excursions have been held during the
year as un

1899.

Oct. 7—Happy Valley.

e days).
Dec. 9—Glen icri Moralta "Waterfalls), via Norton’s
Summ

1900.
March 17—Dredging, Port Riv
May 19—Grange and Bak Bh ol Beach.
June 16—Brighton
“ i PER

July 26—Black Hil
Aug. 18—Stonyfell.
Sept. 3—Golden Grove (whole day).
" . 22—National Park (Waterfall Gully portion).

ese excursions have covered a wide area, and have given
opportunity for the study of most branches of Natural His-
tory, Geology, Botany, Zoology (both land and marine),
Conchology, and ToT having been included in the

these excursions was a three days visit to Po Viger
and neighbourhood in November, 1899, when about 30 m
rs and psy spent a pleasant and profitable time at that
indul seaside resort.

Several kin er of plants not to be seen in the hills near
Adelaide een then ne while 53 species of birds were
identified, and chitons and other marine specimens obtained.
An Mu was made to find Selwyn's historic Rock in the
Inman River, but its identity could not be clearly esta-
blished, although the outcrop recorded in its vicinity was
found. It was supposed that the rock in question ciim

excursion to the
Grove introduced a new locality for these outi
brought a somewhat distinct character of vegetation ade

201

notice. Successful results were obtained from the excursions

visit to the [esee College at Roseworthy, and to the
Estate of "Rostrevor," Magill, lent pleasing variety to the

in this part of the Section's uperations, and at the id outing
there were more than 30 members and friends present

Fauna and Flora Protection Committee—A NX ate re-

port is presented from this Committee, and shows that the
ei of Legislation FOR the Protection of Birds is still
porte earnest attent

Melbourne Science dos ress.—Several members of the
Section dtsn As d the Pe ae of the Australasian Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science held at Melbourne in
January, 1900. Some of the important papers then read, and
of the excursion then arranged were subsequently brought
under the notice of the members of this Section at the
evening meetings.

Proposed 19th Century Festival of Literature, Science, and
Art.—Representatives of this Section were appointed on the

Scheme. In anticipation of this gathering being held, no
conversazione was arranged for last year in connection with
the Section

Procehbin gu —Beyond the report issued with the Royal So-
ciety’s Transactions, no printed account of last year's pro-
ceedings has yet been published, but it is hoped ere long to
combine that and the present year's report in one volume.

Library.—During the year ib was decided to establish a

Membership. — There not been arge an acquisition
of new members during the year as might be wished. Your
M ittee ho hat members will siete teg to induce

omm
their friends to join the Section, and so hel counter-

202"

balance the loss that is always to be expected. The number
now on the roll 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.

Epwın Asnpy, Chairman.
W. H. Serwav, Hon. Sec.
Adelaide, Sept. 17, 1900.

TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIVE
FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION COMMITTEE
OF THE FIELD NATURALISTS’ SEC110N OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO BE
PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, 181TH
SEPTEMBER, 1900.

The Committee have met at intervals in the past year.
Regarding the Forest Reserves, the Committee received, in

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 west, has been this year re-introduced by Mr. Play-

e Committee were disp osed to join the Bird Prstention
Society in die that the Bill should be withdrawn, as ma
important provisions contained in their own Sasar upon which
this one had been founded, were omi m it. wo
the members eaited. upon Mr. Playford "s this end >
view, but. after discussing the qun with him, thought it
would be better to allow the to go on, and endeavour
later to get introduced some Saas eh to meet their owm
views. So little progress has, however, been made that there
seems little probabilitv of the Bill being passed this session.
Epwın Asusy, Chairman
M. Symonps Crank, Aon. Secretary.
Adelaide, September 18, 1900.

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ASTRONOMICAL SECTION.

OF THE

Boval Society of South Australia.

EIGHTH 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, &c. Some of

last. Mr. Rus ‚gave a popu ular ep entitled *An Astro-
nomical Evening," illustrated by lantern views, at the Society's

room, to a good atte Fco ance. In June “thie President, Sir Charles

(by request) be y benefit of the general public a few weeks
later at ari Royal Society’s Room, at which there was also a large
-attendance

The EM have met six times for business. The Section
now has three English magazines, which treat of astronomical
nn and members can obtain them for perusal on applica-

o Mr. Hurst, office of the Postmaster-General, Adelaide.

p * Astronomical Notes "—published monthly sinec July,
1892, and consequently now in their ninth year—have appeared

with consistent regularity during the pet: ygan, and, as formerly,
have proved of a highly satisfactory na

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.

* Topp, President
E. Che EESMAN, Hon. Secretary.

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GENERAL INDEX.

[Generic and specific names in italic type are described as new.]

Aborigines, Australian, factors producing
uniformity of type WW 176.
Acanthiza tenuirostris, 1
5

Anoplognathus concinnus, 40.

Anthribidæ, t of, 141.

erain lilliputans, 167.

Ars asperulus, 166; bicristatus, 163;
Koebeli, 164; lindensis, "165 ; sambucinus,

Ardiosteres Scoteina, 18.

Ashby, Edwin, Definitions of two new species
of Polyplac v a, 86.

»Aulicus amabilis ; cræsus, 127 seribatus,

'133 ; instabilis, EE modestus, 135 ;

us, 131; nigro-hirtus, 129; robustus, "ar:
-tabulation of dier of, 12.
‘Australian Aborigines,

‘teatures producing
uniformity of type among, 176.
"Baris orchivora, 61.
Basi ie? — 156; meg a, wc

Bird m Kalgoorlie, W.A
Blackburn, "Rev. T.F an Note on Aus-
eoptera, XXVL, XXVIL,

— dies dan fabs, 64; Iyndhursten-
, 63; persimulans, 64 ;

halcopterus
Chione Hallii, Korii permagna, 107.
Chiton oruktus, 89.
Cus angusticollis, 114.
oc been Pat
‘Clark, E. V., ao aad otes on Aldinga and

land, 2 Presidential Address, 176.
Seabee Haroldi, 168.
Cleride, er of Australian genera, 117,
delicatatus, 132; Notes on species of,
‘Clivina Adelaide, Evrensis, brag omni 85.
‘Coleoptera, a new gene and

a e 102.

Cyclostrema porcellana, 10
Cylothorax Fa want ve joe EP 36.
Qmm — 4.
pe ed Js a Eocene Corals from Mul-
er nL
DR etse to the Library, 186.
Donova pe Jene.
Doticu uali, à es P "ee.
Eburiphora pm. 138.
Edusa angustula, 66.

En en erde dive
Ennom pen 0.
resina dorsoplagiatus, 14 146.

ne bed Aldinga and Myponga Bays,

s; miroteuca, 14. TIN

i, 96; Tryoni, 96.

Fossiliterous aa at ‚Kerguelin Island, 104.

Fossils, Eocene, list of at Mulgundawa, S.A.,
Gari Q )sp.,1
Geological fotos. n Aldinga and Myponga

ys M. on Nüsse uh 104; Mul-
gund re, 109.

Glaciation i in Bohr Yorke-Peninsula, a
er, G. A., Description of a new mineral

albicineta, 20; laciniella, 19;
e GO 19;

Hal), Robert, Notes on Bird-skin
rlie, 24; on the ar of Morgan
land, 104.
Heteronyx ee 113 cus, 38.
Howehin, W., (d ley = ‘Glaciation in
us Yorke-Peninsula, 71.
H ra, 139,

-skins f. rom, 2
Island, marine Ra RAR rocks

Koch Max x, Supplementary List of Plants
from Mount Lyndhurst Run, 8.A., 81.

Labroma horrens, 37,

Lacon fa re a a 49.

Lampusia

Leioprora ascepta, E

Nome oasis. 9; inscripta, 9;
tholodes

List of Fellows, &c., 196.

Lozostoma qoem a, 23.

Mi ella 92; cratericula, 91;

ayii, 93; Mc 91; ovuleformis,
-— Simson
Ma M. M., "y ge of a new speeies
irn

207

May, W. L., and Prof. Tate, Definition of new
Species and genera of Australian Mollusca,

Megasce loides dpp 5

pm atratus,
5 ; flagellatus, 58; P hemorrhoidal
56; cc in me 52; itor, 54;
adora, 55; refine edd 56; jen

yter era, new species of, 6,
t ma dor ntete, 161.
ol nace, Australian, new species of, 86, 89,

Lyndhu
vid feet well- Pinto at, gr T e
fossils from, 111
Myponga Bay,
Mytilus spp.,
Nacella Tasmanica, 102.
$, 120.

Geological Notes on, 1.

ni, 94 ; Tremarici, 106.
Nemoni ilampra, 17; leptosticta, 16.
Neocles innocuus, 169

Neolycaon, 45.

Neoscrobiger patricius, 136 ; rauciceps, 137.
Notoliper rnes,

Notecia reticulata, 160.

Oenodus Zepidus, 33,

Odontostomia depl exa, varians, 97.
Opilo moerens ‚and spp., 119.

23.
; trigonophora, 21.
or, 115; pee 114.
opoda. , 12; e npe : Rebar

rana, 12; neurosticha, is: Au „13;

tripunctella, 12.
ie circulatella, stigmatias, thyellia,
Pilostibes ¢ trachyptera,

Plants from Mount Lyndhurst Run, list of, 81.
Platyphymatia squalidu
Polyplacophora new ei. es, 86, 89.
rx ential Address by Dr. W. L. Cleland,
Prostatitis ngs, Abstract of, 170.
Procometis hylonoma, 1l.
Pseudorissoina Tasmanica ca, 98.

Rhipi na, 50

Rissoia apicilirata, 99; dis
crépans, 99; pellucida, 100; perexigua, 100;
Tubicund, EMI Simsoni, 1i

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Rissopsis b inoides, consobrina, 101.
Rupilia angulaticolis 66; approximans, 67.
Scalaria 5
mr gosse in 14.
robiger, 136.
Sclonirer Sernshawensis, 115.

Stathmopoda mannophora, 93,
Stenochiton pallens, 86.

tigmodera minata, 21 a maaa 42;
biguttata, 41; bucolic:

41; capucina, 44; merum Bg p^ ; Caroli, 44 ;
Carpentaria, 43; cincta, 47; lea,
44; colorata, 41; eonsularis, 42; croci-
pennis, ; dawsonensis, 42; dulcis, 41;
elegans, 48; elegantula, 44 ; is, 47 ;
flavescens, 44 ; flavipennis, 47 ; insignicollis,
45; insignis, 46; Karatte, 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; ata, 41;
tacita, 42; tasmanica, 42; terræ-reginæ,
41; triangulosa, 41; verax, 41; vigilans,

Streneoderma contemptum, 158; planatum,
15

Stylifer Petterdi, 96.

Sulvanite, a new d 69.

Syrnola Zarrissoni, 96; Pelterdi, 97;
punct ospira, 97.

Tarsotenodes simulator, 139.

Terasse 138.

Tate, 2” Re Definitions of new species and
gen ot Aus tralian Mollusca, 9); Marine
fossilifero eds at Kerguelen, 104 ; Well-
section at ee 109,

po wies pulchellus, var. (?) notophilus,

us dux,
fidus distinctus, funereus, semicostatus,

Tro ideres 180.

Tur a piment 98.

Turner, Dr. A. Jefferis, New Micro-lepidop-
ra,

Turritella Atkinsoni, 95 ; Hallii, 106.

Uni of

Aborigines, factors producing, 176.
Xyloryeta acrochroa, 8; assi. 7
notropis micans, 15

Yorke Puckitals, evidences of glaciation at,

Zauclophora pelodes, 8.

Zidora Loddere, 101.

Zietz, A., Deseription of a new species of
Acanthiza, 112.

Zonops heteroleuca, 17.

Zygophyllum Aumillimum, 82.

Vardon & Pritchard, Printers, Gresham-street, Adelaide.

Vol. XXIV. Plate I.

I. ISCHNOCHITON 2. CALLOCHITON RUFUS
(Stenochiton pallens)

3. CHITON ORUKTUS

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Plate IL

Vol.

XXIV. Plate III

Vol.

CONTENTS.

(PART IL. c bye 1900).

ocH,
ER

Definition of Tes
(Plate I. pars)

New i dien of South honed
M.M.: a Deteliion of of a New Species of South Australian ;
phora ( pars) a dien
F. RALPH, and W. L. Ma : Descriptions of New Genera.
and Species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian)