BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURX. 359 



upper side of the basal joints and the apex of the rest fuscous or 

 blackish, and the basal portion of the joints about the middle are 

 infuscate in a less degree. These colour differences would not be 

 sufficient to justify specific distinction, however, were it not for 

 differences of sculpture, but in jjaUida the head is said to be 

 coarsely punctured and the puncturation of the prothorax to be 

 sub-variolose at the sides, whereas in the present species both head 

 and prothorax are very finely and very evenly punctured, the 

 punctures of the latter being scarcely if at all coarser on the sides 

 than on the disc. The other species of Calomela approaching this 

 one in colour are geniculata, Baly, tarsalis, Blackb., and perhaps 

 paropsoides, Clk. ; of these the former two, inter alia, have black 

 taisi, while the last named has the prothorax strongly punctured 

 at the sides and the elytra marked with fuscous blotches. 

 N.S.W., Richmond River; sent by Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



AULACOPHORA AUSTRALIS, Blackb. 



The same year (1888) in which I described the above-named 

 insect to the Linnean Society of N. S. Wales, Mr. J. S. Baly, I 

 find, described it to the Linnean Society of London under the 

 name Aulacophora Olivier i. As Mr. Baly's description was 

 published a little before mine his name must stand. In the same 

 memoir Mr. Baly describes Malayan specimens which he says are 

 the true A. analis, Weber, and shows that they are quite distinct 

 from any species hitherto recorded as Australian, the specimens 

 on the authority of which Olivier quoted Australia as a locality 

 for analis being in reality this allied species which Mr. Baly and 

 I described almost simultaneously. A. analis, Weber, must 

 therefore be dismissed from the Catalogue of Australian Coleop- 

 tera, and the insect that has borne that name will stand thus — 

 A. Olivieri, Baly, Journ. Linn. Soc. XX. (1888), p. 184. 



australis, Blackb., Proc. L.S.N.S.W. (Ser. 2) Vol. IIL 

 (1888), p. 1498. 



analis, Oliv. (nee Weber), Ent. VI. p. 642, t. 3, f. 48. 



Ihilaris, Boisd., Voy. de I'Astrolabe, p. 555, 

 My note in Proc. L.S.X.S.W. (1889, p. 1273) to the efiect 

 that A. aiostralis, Blackb., appeared to be a var. of analis, was 



