370 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Tenebrionide 
Palorus melinus. 
Hypophloeus melinus, Herbst, in Fuessly’s Archiv, v., 
p. 3/7, t. 21, figs. B, b (1784). 
Hypophloeus depressus, Fabr., in Schneider’s Neu Mag. 
Hnt., i:,°1, p. 20. 
Ins unicolor, Oliv., Mnt., my No. 18, gp. 22;98..2; 
figs. 8 a, b. 
Hab. N.W. Australia—Port Darwin, Adelaide River, 
Roebuck Bay. 
Numerous specimens, found under bark, away from 
habitations. ‘These examples are smaller, and have the 
head and prothorax more finely punctured than usual in 
P. melinus. A cosmopolitan insect, occurring all over the 
world; I have similar specimens from such widely- 
separated localities as Damma Island (Walker), Marocco, 
and Mexico. It is probable that two species are confused 
in collections, but I hesitate to separate them at present. 
P. delicatulus, Reitter, from the East Indies, the frag- 
mentary type of which has been lent me by Mr. René 
Oberthtr, is a sherter and broader insect than P. melinus. 
A third species, from Damma Island, at present un- 
described, has been sent to me by Mr. Walker. 
LyYpHIA. 
Lyphia, Mulsant, Opusc. Ent., ix; p. 166 (1859) ; 
Jacq.-Duval, Gen. Col. Hurop., ii., p. 305. 
Lindia, Blackburn, Trans. R. Soc. 8. Austr., x., p. 27 
(1888). 
Lyphia tasmanica, nu. sp. (Plate VIII, fig. 6.) 
Elongate, narrow, subcylindrical, subopaque, obscure ferrugin- 
ous, the head and prothorax infuscate. Head densely, finely 
punctate ; antenne ferruginous, very short, the apical four joints 
abruptly widened and strongly transverse ; prothorax convex, a 
little longer than broad, the sides parallel behind and feebly 
rounded in front, the hind angles acutely rectangular, the disc 
slightly depressed in the middle before the base, the entire surface 
very densely, finely punctate, the punctures showing a tendency 
to become longitudinally confluent ; elytra nearly two and a half 
times as long as, and slightly broader than, the prothorax, densely, 
