BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 1235 



prothorax is rather more than half again as wide as long, its base 

 not much wider than its front, which is moderately concave 

 (slightly bisinuate), with but little produced and not very sharp 

 angles ; the sides are gently arched, the hind angles mucli 

 rounded oft', the base being gently convex all across. The elytra 

 are punctured more closely than, but about as strongly as, the 

 prothorax ; their lateral fringe is normal, their apical membraDe 

 scarcely defined. The hind coxje do not exceed the 2nd ventral 

 segment in length. The puncturation of the metasternum and 

 hind coxa? is strong and fairly close on the sides, becoming more 

 sparse towards the middle, the latter having an elongate laevigate 

 antero-internal space. The ventral segments are punctured rather 

 strongly and by no means closely all across ; the ventral series 

 are moderately conspicuous and consist of long fine hairs. The 

 hind femora are very little wider than the intermediate, their 

 inner apical angle but little marked. The three external teeth of 

 the front tibiae are stout and blunt, the uppermost very much less 

 than half the size of the middle one. The apical piece of the hind 

 claws is less than J the size of the basal piece, and about twice as 

 large as the produced ajjex of the latter. 



Perhaps near H. tempestivus, Er., or prceco.v, Er., but (apart 

 from the difiiculty of the antennae of those species having been 

 subsequently said to be only 8-jointed) Erichson says that the 

 puncturation of the underside is more or less obsolete, whereas in 

 this insect it is particularly strong and well-defined. 



South Tasmania ; taken by Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



H. GRANUM, Burm. 



Sir William Macleay has sent me under this name a S. Aus- 

 tralian specimen of an insect that I have several times met with 

 in the Adelaide district. The examples I have seen vary in 

 size (long. 2-3 lines). I think it not unlikely to be correctly 

 named, although Burmeister's description is not minute enough 

 to allow of any certainty. The objection to the identification is 

 principally that Burmeister says "labro altissimo," from which it 



