430 B'ihliograpliical Notices. 



elevations) densely clothed with sandy-white pubescence. 

 Thorax convex, with an irreo-ular lons-itudinal median impres- 

 sion, on each side of which is a sinuous, raised, smooth hne, 

 which branches in front; there are also several smooth raised 

 spots and marks on the disk, and on the sides numerous small 

 round spots. Elytra rugulose, the raised rugte smooth and 

 shining, the interstices filled with whitish pubescence, but the 

 pubescence does not form any distinct pattern. 



Hah. Karachi. 



This fine species is about twice the size of the largest 

 of those hitherto described. It appears to be most nearly 

 allied to J. WhitMllii. 



The specimen was sent to the British Museum by the Secre- 

 tary of the Zoological Society, who received it from Mr. B. 

 Finch with the above-given locality. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Neiv SoutJi Wales 

 for 1883. Vol. XYIL Edited by Prof. A.' Liversldge, E.H.S. 

 "8^0. Sydney, 1884. 



AjfTHKOPOLOGY IS represented in this issue by an interesting article 

 on the aborigines inhabiting the great lacustrine and riverine system 

 of rivers and creeks which the Lower Murray takes from Moama to 

 Wentworth, including the Lower Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan, 

 and Lower Darling. Seven tribes are here treated of as to charac- 

 ters, features, language, habits, &c. by Peter Beveridge. Astro- 

 nomy gives us a list of 130 new double stars jn-epared by H. C. 

 Russell, the Government Astronomer. Hydrology comprises a 

 paper on irrigation in New South Wales by H. C. Russell, who 

 supplies also meteorological observations and a rainfall map ; 

 another on water-supply and irrigation in that colony, by A. P. 

 Wood ; and on irrigation in Upper India, by H. G. McKinney. 



The botanists give the following : — on plants used by the natives 

 of North Queensland, Flinders, and Mitchell Rivers, for food and 

 medicine, by E. Palmer ; on Macrozamia, by C. Moore ; on the roots 

 of the sugar-cane (with two plates), by H. L. Roth ; and additions 

 to the hst of genera of plants indigenous to Australia, by F. von 

 MiiUer. The chemistry of Australian products, as collected in 

 abstracts down to 1882, is prepared by W. A. Dixon. A note, by 

 E. H. Rennie, on the discoloration of white bricks made from certain 

 clays in the neighbourhood of Sydney, also refers to chemical 

 investigations. 



There are two geological communications. The first is by J, E. 

 Tenison-Woods, on a series of strata hitherto known as the Waiana- 

 matta Shales, and supposed to lie above the Hawkesbury Sandstone. 



