14 Mr. E. Newman on Australasian Longicorns, 



the individuals here procured were " only half the size of the 

 Irish specimens." Sowerby's * Malac. and Conch. Mag.' No. 2. 

 p. 43. 



•* Cyprina minima. M. Malbay, rare." W. H. Harvey. Bantry Bay. 

 Mr. J. Humphreys. 



Pisidium obtusale, Pfeif. .'' Jenyns, I have collected in a few locali- 

 ties in the north-east of Ireland. 



cinereum, Alder. As last. La Bergerie, Queen's county. Rev. 



B. J. Clarke. 



" Teredo bipennata. From the mast of avessel cast ashore at Youghal." 

 R. Ball. M. Malbay, W. H. Harvey. 



*' Xylophaga dorsalis. In rotten wood at Ringsend, Dublin." W. H. 

 Harvey*. 



Montacuta purpurea. My a purpurea, Mont. Abundant on the north- 

 east coast. It was this species and not Kellia rubra that was 

 found in the stomach of mullet as noticed in ' Annals Nat. Hist.' 

 vol. i. p. 354. K. rubra also occurs on the Irish shores. 



Pandora obtusa, Leach, Lam. Penn. ' Brit. Zool.' vol. iv. pi. 64. 

 (three lowest figures) ed. 1777 : same work, ed. 1812. Solen 

 pinna, vol. iv. p. 175. pi. 67. f. 3. Dredged off Carrickfergus 

 Sept. 1835, Mr. Hyndman ; subsequently by Mr. H. and myself 

 in Strangford lough. 



[To be continued.] 



IV. — Nonnullorum Cerambycitum novorum, NovamHollandiam 

 et Insulam Van Diemen habitantium characteres. By Ed- 

 ward Newman, F.L.S., &c.t 



Genus. Sceleocantha, Newman. 

 Prioni facies : prothorax utrinque spina recurva laterali armatus ; 

 pone spinam excavatione semicirculari incisus, postice bisinuatus : 

 tibiae sulcatse, carinatse, extus spinosae. 



* Pholas papyraceus, Solander. Turt. Brit. Biv. Mr. Harvey has shown 

 me a specimen which he found in 1826 in a fishing-boat in Dublin Bay ; but 

 as Torbay boats occasionally visit this place, and in one of them it may pos- 

 sibly have occurred, the species cannot be announced as Irish. 



f At the particular request of Mr. Davis, now settled at Adelaide, in South 

 Australia, I have written characters for some of the fine Coleoptera which 

 he has sent to this country : that portion of the list containing the Longi- 

 corns being ready, I have added a few more descriptions from specimens in 

 the collection of Mr. Children, to which he has most obligingly allowed 



