344 Mr. G. J. Arrow on a Gonirihition to the 



in the British Museum, are a male and female of very 

 lar<:fe size. "J'hc larva was described by Mr. Blackburn in 

 1.S99 (Tians. Roy. Soc. 8. Australia, .xxiii, p. 27). 



The genus Scainmcs is represented by two very similar 

 species, of which tlie differences were first pointed out by 

 Macleay (Proc. Linn. Soc, New S. Wales, 1884, p. 70.S), 

 who determined the slujrter and more coarsely punctured 

 form as aS'. audralis, Boisd., while to the other he gave the 

 name of >S^. j^oUtus. The latter, however, is undoubtedly 

 S. Menalc((S, Lap., and in all probability is the true S. 

 aiisfrfiNs, Boisd., also, as considered by the compilers of the 

 Munich Catalogue. I have not discovered the whereabouts 

 of Boisduval's type, which is not in the Paris jMuseum, but 

 it is this species Avhich was named S. aastralis in Laferte's 

 collection, Avhich comprised Dejean's, etc., and it was taken 

 by Wallace at Dorey, the locality of the type. The shorter 

 species (Macleay's S. anstralis) has recently been named 

 by Herr Sternberg t^capancs grosscpiinctatus, and if I am 

 right the synonymy of the two is as follows : — 



B. australis, Boisd., Voyage de I'Astrolabe, Col., p. 158, 

 PI. IX, fig. 4. 



Ilenalcas, Lap., Hist. Nat., IT, p. 114. 

 2Jolii»s, Mad, Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, 1884, 

 p. 703. 

 S. grossepundatus, Sternb., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1908, p. G. 

 mistralis, Macl. (nee Boisd.) /. c. 



A male specimen of the second species from New 

 Hanover in our collection, which measures 57 mm. in 

 length to the end of the clypeus, has the puncturation of 

 the elytra very sharp and coarse, the cephalic horn rather 

 dilated laterally from the base to the anteapical tooth and 

 the thoracic horns as long as in the best-developed males 

 of S. avsiralis, Boisd., but much farther apart. As I have 

 no doubt this represents a local race I call it 



S. go'cssepwidatus, var. dilaticornis. 



The following new genus (also Australian) is peculiar 

 for a close resemblance to the Rutclid genus Anomala 

 (which, curiously, is indigenous to every great division of 

 the globe except Australia). 



Anomalomorpha, n. gen. 

 Fo^-m brot^clly oval, rather depressecl, with tlie legs slender, \\\q 



