THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. XXII. 



AUGUST, MDCCCXLII. 



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Art. LXXXIX. — Analytical Notice of a Paper entitled " Notes on 

 some Insects from King George'' s Sound, collected and present- 

 ed to the British Museum by Captain George Grey. By Adam 

 White, Esq., British Museum." [Being a portion of the Ap- 

 pendix to Capt. Grey's Journals of two Expeditions of Disco- 

 very in Australia, in 1837 — 39. Two vols. London : Boone, 

 29, New Bond St. 1841.] 



Mr. White commences his paper by enumerating the various au- 

 thors who have described Australian insects : the list is a long one, 

 including almost all our publishing entomologists. In the catalogue 

 which follows forty- five species are enumerated ; of these nineteen are 

 described, the author supposing them to be new. 



coleoptera. 



1. Carenum perplexum. The author appears to think this may be 

 the Scarites cyaneus of Fabricius. 



2. Chlcenius Greyianus. Above bright gold-green ; rather lai'ger 

 than Chlaenius quadrisulcatus. 



" The elytra are very distinctly sinuated towards the extremity, and the three ele- 

 vated ribs are smooth and of a coppery bronze colour, with the intervening spaces 

 smooth (at least not granulated as in the C. quadrisulcatus) and have two longitudinal 

 lines of impressed points, one on each side of the smooth interval." — ii. p. 458. 



3. Staphylinus erythrocephalus, Fabricius, Syst. Eleu. ii. 593. 



4. Cryptodus variolosus. 



" Smaller than Mr. Macleay's species and of a pitchy brown, it is less depressed ; 

 the head is squarer and not so broad, the two tubercles are more prominent, the men- 

 turn is deeply emarginate: antenn<B nine-jointed; basal joint dilated, prothorax not so 

 transverse, much more closely punctured : the elytra are scarcely dilated behind, short- 

 er, and are covered with exceeding minute punctures in addition to the larger ones." 

 — ii. 459. 



5. Brachysternus ? Epichrysus Lamprimoides. 



" Yellowish metallic green, legs darker. The head is somewhat square, the trans- 

 verse suture being rather indistinct; the margin of the clypeus is distinctly reflexed. 

 Antennas dark brown, ten-jointed ; 1st joint longest, thickened at the end, with ferru- 

 ginous hairs behind ; 2nd rounded, thin ; 3rd, 4th and 5th, with the separating lines 



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