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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



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



(Plates iv.-v.) 



This paper originated from notes on material collected by Mr. 

 A M. Lea and myself in January, 1918, during a visit to the 

 western districts of Tasmania — -especially to Cradle Mountain, 

 Wilmot, Waratah, and Strahan. The new insect life discovered 

 through Mr. Lea's painstaking sifting of moss - especially moss 

 growing on trees, so prolific in those moist regions - demands 

 new generic names for small but interesting members of the 

 fungus-eating Tenebrionidce ( Bolilophagiiue). 



An examination of the Tenebrionidm and Buprestidce in the 

 fine collection made by the late Mr. Augustus Simson, of Laun- 

 ceston, and acquired by the South Australian Museum, has given 

 me special information on Tasmanian species that seems worth 

 recording. 



The remainder of the paper deals with miscellaneous material 

 that has either accumulated in my own collection, or has been 

 sent for identification from the National Museum, Melbourne. 

 A table of the genera of the Subfamily Ulomince is included, 

 which may help students to a more ready identification of a 

 difficult and cosmopolitan group of insects, which comprise some 

 notorious grain pests. 



BUPRESTIDCE. 



The following list contains the fourteen species of Sliymodera 

 that 1 know to have been taken in Tasmania: the four species 

 marked with an asterisk are found only in Tasmania. S.autstra- 

 lasia C. & G., S. bremei Hope, S. cydtiipes Saund , S. dimidiata 

 Cart, (with its var. leai Cart.), S. erythromelas Boisd., S. jiavo- 

 picta Boisd., *S. insularis Blackb., *S. jubata Blackb., .V. 



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