366 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Tenebrionide 
HETEROCHEIRA. 
ileterocheira, Lacordaire, Gen. Col., v., p. 335, nota 
(1859); F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1872, 
p. 266. 
Heterocheira australis, 
Uloma australis, Boisd., Voyage del’Astrolabe, Ent. 11., 
p- 258 (1835). 
Heterocheira australis, Lacord., Gen. Col., v., p. 336, 
nota; F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 266. 
Var.: Smaller, duller, and less elongate, the prothorax and 
elytra not so finely punctured, the strize deeper and more coarsely 
punctate, the interstices towards the sides and apex convex ; 
anterior tarsi with the second and third joints considerably widened 
in the male. Length 5—6 mm. 
Hab. N.W. Australia—Baudin I., Adéle I. 
Found in plenty at roots of grass on the sea-shore 
(Walker). 
DieHYRRHYNCHUS. 
Diphyrhynchus, Fairmaire, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1849, 
p. 445; F. Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1872, 
p. 267. 
Acanthosternus, Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1860, 
p- 290. 
Mr. F. Bates refers this genus and Heterochetra to the 
‘‘Diaperides,” without hesitation. He seems to have 
completely overlooked the very close affinity of Diphyr- 
rhynchus and Phaleria. Lacordaire’s Groupe “ Phale- 
riides”? would probably be better removed altogether 
from the ‘‘Trachyscelides,’” and placed as a separate 
section between the “ 'Trachyscelides”’ and the “ Diape- 
rides.” 
Diphyrrhynchus, so far as at present known, has pre- 
cisely the same habits as Phaleria, its species being 
found on the sea shore. It has the epistoma deeply 
emarginate, as in Scymena, and the intermediate joints of 
the four front tarsi are similarly dilatate in the male. 
Heterocheira resembles the parallel forms of Phaleria 
(P. parallela, Woll., etc.), but has the anterior tibiae much 
less widened. Mr. F. Bates (op. cit.) states that in both 
Diphyrrhynchus and Heterocheira, the first four joints of 
the intermediate tarsi are strongly, and those of the 
