222 REMARKS. 



NOTE XXXIV. 

 SOME REMARKS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. 



BY 



J. R. H. NEERVOORT van de POLL. 



Bwpfestidte. 



Chalcotaenia laeta Waterh. Mr. Waterhouse bestowed this 

 name (Ann. Mag. of Nat. Hist. 5th ser. vol. VII (1881), 

 p. 463) upon a species close to C. Australasiae Saund., 

 and a few years afterwards (Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 

 5th ser. vol. XIII (1884), p. 371) he described under the 

 same name a species allied to C. gigas Hope. For the lat- 

 ter I now propose the name C. W aterhousei. 



Chalcotaenia vittata Waterh. (Ann. & Mag. of Nat. Hist. 

 5th ser. vol. VII (1881), p. 462) is apparently = C. Sala- 

 mandra Thoms. (Bull. Soc. Ent. de France (1879) p. CLViii). 



Chalcotaenia 4-signata Saund. I possess a variety of this 

 species in which the green of typical specimens, is chan- 

 ged into a most brilliant coppery ; compared with other 

 (ƒ examples , the thorax is shorter with the hinder angles 

 more projecting, and the elytra are more strongly nar- 

 rowed towards the end. I propose to call this variety ignita. 



CeritmhffcidcB. 



Anatisis (Petalodes) plagiatus White , Ann. & Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist. 3rd ser. vol. II (1858), p. 354, note = Piesarthrius 

 marginellus Hope, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1840. p. 55 & Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. Ill, 2. p. 200; t. 12 f. 1. (White described the 

 cf , Hope the 9). 



Distichocera mutator Pascoe , Journ. of Ent. I (1862), 

 p. 370 = D. Kirhyi Newm., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 

 79. (1 compared my specimen with both the types). 



Notes from the I^eyden ]>Juseum, "S''ol. "VIII. 



