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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. 



Part VII. 



In the present memoir I offer to the Linnean Society descrip- 

 tions of a number of new species that have been sent to me for 

 identification by various correspondents, together (in some 

 instances) with allied forms in my own collection which it seems 

 desirable to deal with at the same time. In dealing with the 

 smaller Gurculionidoe there is, I fear, some inevitable risk of 

 occasionally clashing with the work already done by Mr, Pascoe 

 in England. Foreseeing this I sent home to that gentleman 

 some considerable time ago a collection of specimens,~after 

 having procured his consent, — with the request that he would 

 look at them and return a number of examples that I specified 

 with any information that he could supply. In due course these 

 examples came back to me, but unfortunately with the informa- 

 tion that only two of them were known to Mr. Pascoe, and 

 without any suggestions such as I had hoped for as to the relation 

 of the remainder to the genera that Mr. Pascoe had characterised. 

 I have thus been thrown upon the study of Mr. Pascoe's memoirs 

 as the only source of information, and if an occasional error 

 (apportioning species to genera in which a comparison with types 

 would show they cannot stand) should creep into my work, I am 

 obliged to say, " there is no help for it." However, if I have 

 erred it is on the side of caution, for where a species possesses 

 the characters assigned by Mr. Pascoe to any genus I have placed 

 it therein (stating the reasons for any doubt I may have in doing 

 so) instead of making a new genus, in all cases where there is 



