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Notes on Australian Coleoptera, ^with 

 Descriptions of New Species. 



By the Eev. T. Blackbuex, B.A. 



[Kead April 5, 1887.] 



The Hon. W. Macleay, of Sydney, has recently published 

 through the Linnean Society of I^ew South Wales two papers 

 of very great interest, each of them being a monographic revi- 

 sion of a genus of LamelJioornes peculiar (so far as is known) to 

 Australia, viz., Dijjliucephala and Liparetrus. In 1866 Mr. 

 Macleay, through the Entomological Society of New South 

 Wales, dealt similarly with the genus Phylloiocus and its allies, 

 and in 1871, through the same Society, he supplied descriptions- 

 of several new species from Queensland of the last-named 

 genus. I venture to draw the special attention of the Eoyal 

 Society to the exceedingly valuable work that Mr. Macleay has 

 commenced in the series of memoirs alluded to above, entitled 

 " Miscellanea Entomologica," and which is all the more valu- 

 able because in all probability he is the only entomologist 

 qualified for the task, so that without his doing it it would long 

 remain undone. By far the richest Australian collections both 

 of specimens and books are at his disposal, and by publishing 

 the results of his studies of these he will open the way for less- 

 favoured students to supplement his w^ork by the publication 

 of such of their observations as his memoirs enable them to 

 ascertain to be still unrecorded. 



In the present paper I offer to the Eoyal Society descriptions 

 of several new species belonging to genera that Mr. Macleay 

 has dealt with, and add a few notes on certain species that he 

 has treated of. I take the opportunity also to furnish descrip- 

 tions of a few new Coleoptera belonging to other groups that 

 have recently come under my notice. 



SCAEITID.E. 

 EuRXGNATHUS, gen. nov. 

 Corpus maxime elongatum ; palpi maxillares et labiales apice 

 f ortiter securif ormes ; caput rotundatum ; mandibular 

 crassje capite breviores, fortiter arcuatae, intus unindentatse ; 

 sulci frontales sat fortiter impressi, elongati, postice 

 divergentes ; tibiae anticae externe bidentatas ; intermedia^ 

 unispinosae. 



