NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



Ry the Rev. T. Blackburn, B. A., Core. Mem. Linn. Sue. N.S.W. 



Part VI. 



Calloodes. 



This genus appears to be of very doubtful validity. Its author 

 mentions no detinite character. M. Lacordaire sinks it as 

 synonymous with jhioplognafhus. But in 1874 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 p. 537) Mr. C. O. Waterhouse states that it is a good genus and 

 mentions as salient distinctive characters that the anterior tibiae 

 are simply produced at the apex on the outer side,— having no 

 teeth on the outer edge, — and that the apex of each elytron is 

 slightly produced into a point. I do not believe the latter 

 character is a satisfactory one, for there are species of Anoplog- 

 nathus {e.g. Boisduvali, Dup., and nebulosus, Macl.) having the 

 elytra quite as decidedly produced apically as those of any Calloodes 

 I have seen, — and I think I know all the species that have been 

 attributed to the genus ; the former character appears to me 

 equally unsatisfactory for in some species of Calloodes at least it 

 pertains to only one sex, and in others to neither. In C. Mastersi, 

 Macl., (which most decidedly has entirely the facies and style of 

 coloration of Calloodes) the front tibife are externally dentate in 

 both sexes, while in C. jjrasiincs, Macl., they are dentate in one 

 sex (apparently the ^ !) only. C. Atkinsoni, Waterh., I am not 

 absolutely sure that I know ; the type I should judge to be a 

 male, — if so a female Calloodes in my collection probably apper- 

 tains to the species (though it differs from the description in having 

 the elytra slightly dilated in the middle of the lateral margin as 

 in some Anoplognatld ($) and also a little differently punctured as 

 well as the usual sexual characters) ; its front tibite have a single 

 very feeble and obtuse external tooth besides the apical prolon- 

 gation. 



