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XI. On the Tenebrionide collected in Australia and 
Tasmania by Mr. James J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., 
during the voyage of H.M.S. “Penguin,” with 
descriptions of new genera and species. By GeorcE 
C. Cuampion, F.Z.S. 
[Read Feb. 28th, 1894. ] 
Puatse VIII. 
Ir is proposed in this paper, which is in continuation of 
one contributed by Mr. Gahan on the Longicornia (Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, pp. 165—197), to give a list of 
the Tenebrionide collected in Australia and Tasmania by 
Mr. J. J. Walker in the years 1890—1, during the 
voyage of H.M. Surveying-Ship “ Penguin,” reserving 
for the present the Cistelide, Melandryidze, Anthicide, 
and the remaining families of the Heteromerous series, 
and also the Tenebrionidz subsequently obtained by him 
in other places. The material examined has been for- 
warded by Mr. Walker partly to myself and partly to 
the British Museum, but the whole of the specimens 
collected have been examined. Some few species are 
represented in the Museum-set only (mostly single 
examples), and these are specially noted below. Five 
new genera and thirty-three new species are described 
out of a total of 110 species. All the new genera and 
thirteen of the new species are from Tasmania, the 
remaining species being from North-west or West 
Australia. Three genera have not hitherto been recorded 
from the Australian continent, viz., Crypticus, Corticeus, 
and Palorus. Lyphia (= Lindia, Blackb.) is new to the 
Tasmanian fauna. Judging from the collection made by 
Mr. Walker, there is still much to be done in Tasmania, 
not only in the Tenebrionide, but in the other families 
of the Coleoptera. I am indebted to the Rev. T. 
Blackburn for a good deal of assistance in the pre- 
paration of this paper, for the purposes of which I have 
carefully studied the collections of Pascoe and F. Bates— 
both very rich in Australian species, and containing a 
large number of Australian types,—and also the Hope 
Collection at Oxford. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1894.—ParT 1. (JUNE.) 
