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r)K8CRIPTTON8 OF A NEW GENU8 AND THREE NEW 

 SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN TENEBRIONID.E FROM 

 BARRINGTON TOPS, NEW SOI^IH WALES. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. 



A week's visit at Christmas, 1915, to a region new to the 

 collector, and Httle known to the tourist — Barrington Tops — 

 revealed a mountain-district of above 5,000 feet altitude, that 

 combines many of the characters of Kosciusko and Dorrigo. 

 Situated some thirty-seven miles north-west of Dungog, this 

 highland should prove an interesting field to the naturalist. Of 

 volcanic origin, the I'ich soil possesses a magnificent forest, in 

 parts approaching jungle, the higher slopes containing a rich 

 brush, mainly composed of the beautiful Fagus Moure i. While 

 the general collecting was a little meagre, due to the long pre- 

 ceding dry weather, the results were specially rich in Carabidfe, 

 while three new species of TenebrionidtB were taken, including 

 one which requires a new genus for its reception. 



Sloanea, n.gen. Tenebrioninarum. 



Wide, depressed, with the facies of Cryptodus. Labrum 

 emarginate and ciliate; mentum cordate, last joint of all palpi 

 securiform; mandibles grooved, forked at apex. Eyes small and 

 transverse. Antennte with the last four joints flattened and suc- 

 cessively wider, the three penultimate joints transverse, last 

 joint subcircular. Prosternum convex, its process arched down- 

 wards at apex, and received into a triangular receptacle of the 

 mesosternum; mesosternum short, body apterous; elytra costate, 

 widely rounded behind, epipleura^ wide and horizontal; precoxse 

 globose, middle coxse rounded. Legs short and stout; tibise 

 much enlarged at apex, fore- and midtibite serrated externally. 

 In the 3", the tibial, especially the foretibise, strongly bent inward 



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