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almost all over the world. The family is Tuoderately well 

 represented iu Australia by 46 genera and 66 species of which 

 Tasmania has 6 genera and 13 species, 1 genus being peculiar 

 to it and, as usual, a large proportion, 10, of species. 



There are four genera worthy of note so far as Tasmania is 

 concerned. Lamprima is i-epresented by a form common to 

 Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales and is a genus of 

 wide distribution throughout Australasia, occurring in all the 

 colonies and beyond the continent in Lord Howe Island, 

 Norfolk Island and in New Guinea. It appears to be repre- 

 sented in Chili by the genus Streptocerus. Lissotus is 

 common to Australia and New Zealand and is remarkably 

 well represented in Tasmania. In Mr. Master's list 12 

 species are given of which no fewer than 8 are recorded from 

 Tasmania, One or two of these, such as L. cancroides, are 

 probably connnon to Victoria. Owing to the fact that 

 Lissotus is also a New Zealand genus its strong development 

 in Tasmania is worthy of note. The third geims is Syndesus 

 which is found in Australia, New Caledonia and tropical 

 South America, the species S. cor nut us being common to 

 Australia and Tasmania. The fourth genus — Ceratognatlivs 

 — found also in New Zealand, is represented in Tasmania by 

 1 species — C. niger —common to it and the mainland. 



The Scarab(sidce, including the forms commonly known as 

 Lamellicorns, are represented in Australia and Tasmania by 

 139 genera and 705 species. Tasmania has 22 genera and 

 53 species, 3 of the former and 43 of the latter being peculiar. 

 Nineteen genera present in the Island are widely distributed 

 on the continent and the three best represented are Ontho- 

 phngus with 8 species, 3 being peculiar and the others common 

 to Victoria ; Liparetus, with 5 species, one common to South 

 Australia, the rest peculiar, and the large genus Heteronyx 

 of which some 160 s])ecies are described from Tasmania and 

 Australia and 10, all pecuHar to it, from the former. 



In the Buprestid(B the Australian region is peculiarly rich, 

 there being now recorded 36 genera and 324 species of which 

 7 genera and 14 species are recoi'ded from Tasmania, 2 genera 

 and 9 species being peculiar. The species, except Cono- 

 gnatha navarchis and Discoderes tasmanicus, all belong to 

 widely distributed genera and 5 of them are common to 

 Victoria. The most characteristic Australian genus is Stig- 

 modera of which 234 species are recorded from the continent 

 and only 6 from Tasmania, of which one is peculiar to King 

 Island. The family Buprestidoi is another of those which 



