14 Mr. E. Newman on Australasian Longicoms. 



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

 Irish specimens." Sowerby'a ' 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. LaBergerie, 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 obtus a, Leach, Lam. Penn. 'Brit. Zool.' vol. iv. pi. 64. 



(three lowest figures) ed. 1777 : same w T ork, 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.f 



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 



