146 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPrERA, 



tibiae curved, the others straight. Dimensions — (J. IS x 6 mm.; 

 0.20x8 mm. 



Hah. — Victorian Alps, at 5000 feet altitude. 



Three specimens, one male, two female, were taken by the 

 author (one under a stone of the cairn on the summit of Mount 

 Blowhard, near St. Bernard Hospice). Three other specimens 

 from Warburton, Victoria, have been given me b}' Mr. C. French. 

 The Warburton specimens dififer slightly from the Alpine in 

 being smaller, more brilliantly metallic, and presenting some 

 dififerences in the position and size of the prothoracic fovese. The 

 species can be readily distinguished from A. Hoivittii and A. piinc- 

 ticeps by colour, by its impunctate, more convex, distinctly 

 channelled and constricted prothorax, and by its more strongly 

 sulcate elytra. In general outline it strongly resembles Beple- 

 genes, as also in the great distance of the eyes from the pro- 

 thorax. The usual strong sexual differences in the tarsi, charac- 

 teristic of the genus, are to he noticed. 



Apasis Howittii Pasc. — I have been much puzzled by the great 

 variations exhibited in what I take to be this species. Specimens 

 taken by myself at Mount Macedon exactly correspond to Pascoe's 

 rather meagie description, and to his figure (Ann. Mag Nat. Hist. 

 Ser. 4, iii, p. 140, pi xi.), and were, moreover, compared with the 

 type. The two specimens*, both male, in the Macleay Museum, 

 which were sent (so Mr. Masters informs me) by Dr. Howitt, 

 from whom also Pascoe obtained his specimens, differ considerably 

 from my own in being much smaller, more convex and coppery 

 \e.g., length 15 mm., while Pascoe gives 10 lines (or 20 mm.)']. I 

 have lately taken a series of Apasis in the Victorian Alps (Mount 

 Buffalo and St. Bernard) which present even greater differences. 

 "While hesitating to describe these as a new species, I would 

 provisionally name the variet}^ to distinguish it 



var. A. longicollis. 

 Larger, flatter and more robust than A. Howittii, colour coal- 

 black, shining, submentum strongly grooved longitudinally 



* I have closely examined these, and find them identical with the species 

 I have described above as A. beplegenoichs. Dr. Howitt thus appears to 

 have collected two species without noting their difference. 



