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(capite et prosterni lateribus exceptis) piceo, sat grosse 

 nee profunde punctulato. Long., f-1 1. ; lat. -^\ 1. 

 Easily distinguishable from the other described Austra- 

 lian species of the genus by its colouring and its compara- 

 tively coarse puncturation. The prothorax is rather strongly 

 transverse, — more so than in its Australian congeners (except 

 perhaps C. Adelaides, Blackb., which approaches it in this 

 respect) and is very little produced over the head. Of the 

 two examples before me, one (doubtless the male) has an 

 evident though slight gibbosity in the middle of the forehead, 

 while the forehead of the other is very flat, 



TENEBRIONID^. 



HOPATRIDES. 



Herr Gebien has recently called my attention to the fact 

 that Reitter last year, in Verh. ver., Brunn, founded a new 

 genus of T enehrionidce under the name MesomorpJius, to 

 which some of the Australian species hitherto placed in Hopa- 

 trum must be transferred. These species are distinguished 

 from true Tloputra by the different vestiture of their tarsi, 

 the obliteration of the clypeal suture, and their divided eyes. 

 Champion had already noted the existence of this aggregate 

 as a section of Hopatrum possibly needing to be separated 

 generically (Tr.E.S., Lond,, 1894, p. 361), and I had myself 

 at a still earlier date (1892) mentioned the first of them that 

 I had seen as probably needing a new generic name. Unfor- 

 tunately MesomorpJius is a nom. pi'ceocc., having been used 

 by Pratz in 1883 (Mesomorpha). As the species in question 

 appear to me to be certainly generically distinct from Hopa- 

 trum I propose to give them a new genus under the name 

 Tiopatrom.orpha, which I cannot ascertain to have been used 

 previously. 



Hopatrum. 



I have before me two new species of this genus, and 

 have recently inspected the type of //. Mastcrsi, Macl. I pro- 

 pose before describing the new species to furnish a tabulated 

 statement of the characters by which the species of Hopa- 

 trum may be distinguished inter se. After the removal of 

 the species already referred to as not genuine Hopatra there 

 remain ten names that seem attributable to Australian spe- 

 cies of the genus, one of which (TJ . australe, Boisd.), I must 

 pass over on account of its being, as Champion has already 

 pointed out, not intelligibly described. The addition of my 

 two new species therefore bring up the number to eleven. I 

 have before me authentic specimens of all except one (U. 

 torridum, Champ.), and I have a Hopatrum from north-west 



