776 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDES, IV., 



agrees fairly closely with Boliemann's description. It is closely 

 allied to iS. aterrimus Ferg., but differs principally in the elytra 

 wanting the regular, striate punctures, these punctures being 

 almost obsolete in the Blue Mountain species. As Bohemann de- 

 scribes the elytra as "vix striato-punctata/' I do not think that S. 

 aterrimus can be identical with S. elonyatus, though it may prove 

 merely a variety. 



Some time ago, Mr. K. G. Blair, of the British Museum, sent me, 

 for examination, a specimen of S. verrucosus bearing the following 

 label — "agrees with specimen in British Museum named elongatus 

 Germar; compared with Hope's specimen referred to by Schoii- 

 lierr. I have not found this specimen, the only elongatus in Hope's 

 Collection being an Acantholophus, ''elongatus mihi" in Hope's 

 writing." 



Bohemann states that he received his specimens from Germar 

 and Hope. 



Germar, in his Insects of Adelaide (Linn. Ent. iii., p. 217), 

 shortly redescribes *S'. elongatus, and states — "Specimen a Schon- 

 lierro e museo nostro descriptum, squamis detritis, tuberculisque 

 paullo crassioribus ob hoc nunc allato recedit. Striga villosa pec- 

 toris abdominisque atra, quam signum maris credam, pariter colore 

 ferrugineo differt." This leaves a suspicion that;, either Germar, or 

 more probably Bohemann, had mixed up two species; or that pos- 

 sibly Boliemann's description was based on Hope's specimen. Cer- 

 tainly, among many species, I have never found a South Austra- 

 lian species agreeing with Bohemann's description. 



SCLERORINUS VERRUCOSUS Macl. 



Macleay, locT cit., p. 262. 



9- Elongate-ovate. Black; s^^arsely clothed with minute, dingy- 

 brown squamosity in depressions; median vitta yellow. 



Head strongly convex, separately so from rostrum; forehead 

 feebly bi-impressed, the median line laevigate, not raised, with a 

 small puncture atjunetion with rostrum, and one above. Rostrum 

 broad, little excavate; dorsal surface considerably narrower than 

 total width of rostrum; external ridges subparallel, not continued 



