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PAPERS READ. 



NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Core. Mem. 



Part XII. 



HYDROPHILID.E. 

 Volvulus punctatus, Blackb. 



When I described this species (P.L.S.N.S.W. 1888, p. 838) I 

 was unable to ascertain its habitat. I have since received it from 

 the Northern Territory of S. Australia. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



Onthophagus hostilis, Har. 



There is little doubt that this is identical with 0. Adelaidce, 

 Hope. Hope's is the older name. 



Heteronyx nasutus, Blackb, 



I find that my description of this species (P.L.S.N.S.W. 1889, 

 p. 147) was founded on an abraded example, and that in fresh 

 specimens the upper surface is thinly clothed with shortish 

 adpressed hairs in addition to the long erect ones. This discovery 

 calls for an alteration in the tabulation, in which the following 

 should be substituted for the last 13 lines of page 141 (loc. cit). 



