154 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



opinion, and drew attention to the fact that that author did not 

 refer to the sexual characters which are strongly marked. At 

 that time I had not seen de Harold's later note, and I have now 

 to add the remark that I have no doubt of de Harold's statement 

 of the two species having nothing in common being founded upon 

 an examination of two specimens of different sex. I have taken, 

 in Tasmania and Victoria plentifully, Aphodii which I cannot 

 doubt are identical with those on which Hope founded the 

 descriptions referred to above, and have not found in those 

 localities (or seen in numeious collections made there) any others 

 (than those) which come at all near agreement with Hope's 

 descriptions. The Aphodii just mentioned, in my opinion, repre- 

 sent two extremely closely allied species, in both of which the 

 sexual differences (indicated in my paper referred to above) are 

 very well marked, and might not unreasonably be regarded, by an 

 observer who had' seen only one of each sex, as specific. As 

 species I find that both vary in colouring too much for any reli- 

 ance to be placed upon colour. In tasmaniae the prothorax is a 

 little wider than in howitti of the same sex, and its hind angles 

 are a little better defined ; the head is, in both sexes, moi'e 

 depressed in its hinder part ; and the elytra are clothed on their 

 entire surface (in howitti only near the apex) with fine, very 

 short, inconspicuous pubescence. De Harold seems to have had 

 before him as tasmaniae a female, and as howitti a male. I am 

 by no means confident, however, that they were not two speci- 

 mens of howitti. 



A. ANUERSONI, Sp. nOV. 



Fern. (?) Sat parallelus; sat nitidus; supra (marginibus summis 

 exceptis) glaber; ferrugineus; clypeo sat crebre sat fortiter punc- 

 tulato, antice rotundato, margine minus fortiter recurvo; fronte 

 minus crebre minus fortiter punctulato; oculis magnis supra 

 nitidis, fere laevibus; prothorace quam longiori ut 8 ad 5 latiori, 

 supra minus fortiter inaequaliter minus crebre minus fortiter 

 (disco postice laevi) punctulato, antice fortiter angustato, latitu- 

 dine majoi'i pone medium sita, lateribus fortiter rotundatis, 

 angulis anticis obtusis vix prominulis posticis rotundatis, basi 

 haud marginata; scutello modico (fere ut A. tasmaniae, Hope); 

 elytris fortiter striatis, striis nonnihil crenulatis, interstitiis late 



