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or green, while the prothorax is hke burnished copper. I sub- 

 mitted a series for examination to Mr. Lea, who wrote in 

 reply : — " I have always found the identification of Saprini 

 difficult and unsatisfactory, and beheve that confusion is almost 

 general. Size and shades of colour seem to go for nothing in 

 the genus. 5. cyaneus may be distinguished from aitstralasicr 

 as follows : — (i) 5. cyaneus, Fab., as identified by Lewis (the 

 world's authority on Histeridae), has a short curved line of 

 punctures, sometimes looking like a feeble stria, at the base 

 of elytra, near suture, punctures leaving a polished space to 

 beyond first stria. (2) S. australasicB, Blackb. — Without the 

 little curved line of punctures of cyaneus, and with elytral 

 punctures advanced beyond base of first stria." 



1708. S. {Gnathoncus) rupicola. Mars. 



A small black species with numerous punctures on the pro- 

 thorax, w^hich renders it one of the few distinct species. 



Hypocaccus since, Mars. 



Specimens in my collection differ slightly from the type in 

 having the apparently impunctate space on the prothorax with 

 minute punctures, whereas on the type there are none. 



PHALACRID^. 



7892. Phalacrinus australis, Blackb. 

 7896. P. rotitndus, Blackb. 



These are small, oval, convex beetles, of a brownish tint. 

 They are found under dry leaves, sometimes in considerable 

 numbers. 



AN ADDITION TO THE VICTORIAN FRESH-WATER 

 COPEPODA. (With Plate.) 

 By J. Searle. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 8th Dec, 191 3.) 

 The species of Boeckella here described was first taken at 

 Alphington on i6th October, 1912, at an excursion of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club. Since then it has been found in several 

 places around Melbourne, and has been recorded in reports of 

 Club excursions and elsewhere under the name of Boeckella 

 asymmetrica, though not previously described as such. On 

 our last pond-life excursion to Alphington, on i8th October, 

 it was present in great numbers in the ponds on either side of 

 the Yarra, near the Outer Circle railway bridge. 



The species resembling it most are B. minuta and B. tenera, 

 G. O. Sars., but it differs from each of these in size, in the shape 

 of the inner lobes of the lateral expansions on the last thoracic 

 segment, and of the genital segment of the female, and in the 



