BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 1259 



corpore subtus crebre aspere (prothorace ad latera magis rugulose) 

 punctulatis ; elytris ut A. Meyricki sculpturatis, his nihilo minus 

 apice magis dehiscentibus. [Long. 3lAt, lat. l?-2 lines. 



The shape of the prothorax and elytra is as in A. major, the 

 surface sculpture of the latter (i.e., the elytra) being quite as in A. 

 Meyricki. The yellow spots on each elytron are as follows : — an 

 elongate quadrate spot close to the base extending transversely from 

 the 2nd to the 5th costa, a transversely oval spot from the 1st to the 

 5th costa a little in front of the middle, a much smaller spot just 

 behind the middle and in a line with the preceding two, another 

 (also small) in the same line and much nearer to the 3rd spot 

 than to the apex, three spots (all about equal in size to that first 

 named) on the lateral margin opposite the interstices between the 

 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, and 3rd and 4th dorsal spots, and one 

 (a little before the apex about half way across the elytron) which 

 might be regarded as belonging to either the dorsal or marginal 

 series. 



This species bears in the Adelaide Museum the name I have 

 given to it, but I cannot find any published description. 



S. Australia ; said to occur on flowers of Melaleuca 'parvifolia 

 in the neighbourhood of the Murray. 



ELATERID.E. 

 Alaus Darwini, sp.nov. 



Augustus ; sat parallelus ; sat convexus ; nigro-piceus ; supra 

 pilissquamiformibus(alteris albidis, alteris nigro-fuscis) dense tectus, 

 his utriusque coloris maculatim condensatis, maculis in prothoracis 

 disco utrinque, et in elytris (his basi utrinque sanguineis) latera 

 versus, praecipue perspicuis ; subtus dense sat sequaliter albido- 

 pubescens ; pedibus antennarumque basi plus minus rufescentibus ; 

 capite prothoraceque fortiter crebrius punctulatis (puncturis sub 

 pilis abditis) ; illo antice leviter concavo ; hoc tumido, quam latiori 

 fere tertia parte longiori, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi quam 

 margo anticus fere dimidia parte latiori ; elytris leviter punctulato- 

 striatis, apice vix emarginato-truncatis, scutellum versus utrinque 



