136 Mr. Arthur M. Lea’s Catalogue of 
not in the Brussels Museum,* nor could he find it in the 
Paris Museum on a visit to that institution. 
Hab. AUSTRALIA. 
MIcROCHATES SPHZRICUS, Hope, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1838, p. 18, Pl. I, fig. 2; King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. 
Wales, iy Peta; Blackburn, Trans, R. Soc. 8. Aust., 
1903, p. 174. coloratus, Blackb. /. ¢., p. 176. 
The Rey. T. Blackburn says this species “could cer- 
tainly not be identified with confidence except by 
specimens from the original locality.” This locality was 
the Swan River, where I have taken numerous specimens + 
which agree with both the description and figure. In all 
these the under-surface is reddish whilst the upper-sur- 
face is dark, except that sometimes the outer parts of the 
elytra are also reddish. The elytra have large punctures in 
the striae, but they cannot be seen in fresh specimens, and 
the punctures of the metasternum are much as in scoparius. 
On some of them there is a patch of greyish or obscure 
ochreous scales on each elytron towards the base, the patch 
usually commencing on the shoulders(where it is narrowest) 
and obliquely directed towards the suture, which, however, 
it does not reach. In one specimen it is again directed 
towards the base so that each appears to be supplied with a 
semicircle of pale scales. The clothing is lable to abrasion, 
but several of the specimens before me agree well with 
the description of coloratus, and I believe that name to 
be synonymous. 
Hab, W. and 8. AUSTRALIA—coastal. districts. 
MIcROCHEZTES SCOPARIUS, Er., Wiegm. Arch., 1842, p. 
153; King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S. Wales, ii, p. 72; 
Blackburn, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 1903, p. 174. 
This species is very abundant in Tasmania, and is the 
common species in New South Wales and Victoria. On 
fence tops and stumps at dusk it may sometimes be taken 
in hundreds; it also occurs under logs (usually in dry 
situations) and occasionally in moss. As a rule Tasmanian 
specimens have more uniformly dark clothing than those 
* Boisduval’s types of Curculionidee of the Astrolabe are in that 
institution. 
+ Ihave taken specimens also on Rottnest, Garden, and Pelsart 
Islands and at Albany. 
