1:52 A SECOND NOTE ON THE CARENIDES, 



ee. Post - ocular prominences 

 projecting but little be- 



yond eyes, their anterior ^^^^^^^^^^.,^^^^^^^ 

 margin rounded off. \ ^^ ^i,^,^aanus, SI. 



SCARAPHITES LATICOLLIS. 



Scaraphites laticoUis, MacL, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. 1866, i. 

 p. Ivi. ; So. gigas, Casteln., Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1868, viii. 

 p. 132. 



Sc. laticoUis, Mad., has a wide range, being found at King's 

 Sound and also (as recently reported by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn 

 in his notes on the Coleoptera of the Elder Exploring Expedition) 

 in the Murchison district of West Australia. A comparison of 

 Count de Castelnau's description of Sc. gigas with specimens of 

 Sc. laticoUis, MacL, leaves hardly any doubt in my mind but that 

 the two names have been founded on one species. De Castelnau's 

 specimen seems to have been a very large one (23 lines in length) ; 

 however, I have seen a specimen of Sc. laticoUis from King's 

 Sound in Mr. C. French's possession which measured 21 lines in 

 jength, and know that mere size is a very unreliable character in 

 many species among the Carenides. 



Scaraphites assimilis, n.sp. 

 A single specimen is in my collection labelled "Fowler's Bay," 

 which I had formerly considered Sc. hiy^tij^es, Mac!., but from 

 comparison with Sir William Macleay's type in the Macleay 

 Museum, Sydney, I find it to be a closely allied but different 

 species. Its dimensions are — length 30, breadth 13-5 ; head, 

 5-25 X 9; prothorax, 6-5 x 11-5; elytra, 14'5 x 13-5 mm. 



* It seems likely Sc. insulanus, SI., should be united with Sc. macleayi, 

 Westw. ; I have only a single specimen of each ; these present slight 

 differences, but probably a comparison of a greater number of specimens 

 would show them to be merely one species. It is worthy of note that the 

 late H. W. Bates has recorded Sc. macleayi from Tasmania (Cist. Ent , 

 1878, II. p. 325) ; and Mr. Olliff from Lord Howe Island (Mem. Aust 

 Mus. 1889). 



