344 Mr. G. J. Arrow on a Contrihdio7i to the 



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

 large size. The larva was described by Mr. Blackburn in 

 1899 (Trans. Boy. Soc. S. Australia, xxiii, p. 27). 



The genus Scapancs 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. 703), 

 who determined the shorter and more coarsely punctured 

 form as S. australis, Boisd., while to the other he gave the 

 name of S. politus. The latter, however, is undoubtedly 

 S. Mcnalms, Lap., and in all probability is the true S. 

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

 Munich Catalogue. I have not discovered the whei'eabouts 

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

 it is this species which was named S. australis in Laferte's 

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

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

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

 by Herr Sternberg Sca'pancs grosscpundatus, and if I am 

 right the synonymy of the two is as follows : — 



;S^. australis, Boisd., Voyage de I'Astrolabe, Col., p. 158, 

 PI. IX, fig. 4. 



Menalcas, Lap., Hist. Nat., II, p. 114. 

 politus, Macl., Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, 1884, 

 p. 703. 

 S. grossejyunctatus, Sternb., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1908, p. 6. 

 australis, 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. australis, Boisd., but much farther apart. As I have 

 no doubt this represents a local race I call it 



S. gQ'ossepunctatus, var. dilaticornis. 



The following new genus (also Australian) is peculiar 

 for a close resemblance to the Butelid genus Anomala 

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

 the globe except Australia). 



Anomalomorpha, n. gen. 

 Form broadly oval, rather depressed, with the legs slender, the^ 



