432 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
LIST OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF 
TASMANTA. 
By Arruur M. Lea. 
THE Coleoptera of Tasmania have never been considered as 
a whole since the time of Erichson, (*) and no list or 
catalogue of the species has ever been compiled. About 
10,000 species have now been recorded from Australia and 
Tasmania, of which scarcely 400 have been described from 
Tasmania. A very imperfect knowledge of what species 
are confined to the island exists, as species supposed only 
to occur there, are constantly being found in Victoria and 
New South Wales, and even sometimes in Western Aus- 
tralia and Queensland; on the other hand, Tasmanian 
collectors frequently obtain mainland species which have 
never been recorded from Tasmania. 
I have considered it advisable, therefore, to prepare a 
list of the species hitherto recorded from Tasmania, adding 
to the list such species as I have seen in Tasmanian col- 
lections, or have myself taken in Tasmania. In this list, 
the genera and families are placed as far as possible in the 
order in which they appear in Masters’ “ Catalogue of the 
Described Coleoptera of Australia ;” the species are placed 
alphabetically. All known synonyms have been omitted. 
In the list an asterisk (*) has been placed after those 
species which are knowm to occur on the mainland, whilst 
another (+), has been placed after those species which have 
been introduced. Deducting the introduced species (40) 
there remain 1000 species and varieties, of which 423 are so 
far, known only from Tasmania; and one being known 
only from New Zealand and Tasmania ; but probably many 
of these will be found to occur on the mainland, especially as 
the beetles of the Australian Alps (and Mount Kosciusko 
*n particular) become better known. 
When the Coleoptera of Tasmania have been thoroughly 
worked out, it will probably be found that there are over 
2000 species, whilst in the whole of the Australian States, 
there are probably at least 20.000 species. 
CaRABIDE. 
Calosoma Schayeri, Er.* 
Lacordairia anchomenoides, Cast. 
Erichsoni, Cast. 
(?) Wiegmann’s Archives, 1842 
