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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 WITH Descriptions of New Genera and 

 Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. 

 [Read April 4, 1893.] 



XIII. 



The following pages furnish descriptions of new species, for 

 one of which I have found it necessary to propose a new generic 

 name. They also contain a number of notes on synoymy, tfec. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



PSEUDORYCTES. 



F. Mnllerianus, White. I have recently seen several examples 

 (all males) of a Pseudoryctes, all of which I believe to belong to 

 this species, although they differ considerably in size and in the 

 degree of development of the male characters. In one example 

 the horns of the prothorax are longer than in the others, the 

 middle horn being bifid at the apex. These specimens all come 

 from North Queensland, and (except one generously presented 

 to me) are in the cabinet of Mr. French, of Melbourne. 



BUPRESTID.E. 



PARACEPHALA. 



P. cyaneipennis, sp. nov. Sat elongata ; subcylindrica ; sub- 

 niticla ; senea, elytris sat Isete cyaneis ; subtus pilis albidis 

 vestita ; capite longitudinaliter sat profunde canaliculato sat 

 crebre striatim ruguloso ; prothorace transversim ut caput 

 ruguloso, quam longiori dimidio latiori, in?equali (transversim 

 et longitudinaliter plus minusve sulcato et pone medium in 

 disco obscure 2-tuberculato) ; elytris crebre subtiliter 

 granuloso-rugulosis, postice singulatim rotundatis et obscure 

 crenulatis. Long., 4 1.; lat., 1| 1. 

 Apart from colour, this species differs from that which I take 



to be P. murina, Thoms. (and also from P. cenea, Blackb.), by 



the much deeper frontal sulcus of its head. In this character it 



agrees with P. pistacina, Hope. 



New South Wales ; Sydney ; bred by Mr. Froggatt from galls 



on Casuarina distyla. 



