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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 ^wiTH Descriptions of New Species. 



By Eev. T. Blackbuex, B.A. 

 [Bead September 6, 1887.] 



In tliis paper I offer to tlie Eoyal Society descriptions of 

 thirteen species of Soutli Australian Coleoptera that appear to 

 Lave hitherto escaped notice, together with the redescription of 

 an insect previously insufficiently described by me, and a note 

 on the capture by Mr. J. J. East of a species doubtless intro- 

 duced through the agency of commerce, but which has not, I 

 believe, been previously recorded as Australian. I have also 

 furnished some remarks on the structural characters of the 

 front tibise o£ the Scaritidce, pointing out the importance in 

 determining the limits of genera and species of one of those 

 characters that does not appear to have been observed by 

 describers hitherto. 



SCAEITID.E. 

 ETJTOMA. 

 JE. Adelaidce, sp.nov, Angustum ; parallel um ; nitidum; supra 

 nigrum, elytris splendide caeruleis, antennis palpis mandi- 

 bulorum basi pedibusque plus minusve rufis ; subtus 

 nigrum, coxis abdomineque picescentibus ; capite pro- 

 thoraci latitudine sequali for titer lougitudinaliter utrinqiie 

 sulcato, sulcis postice hand transversim productis, antice 

 leviter convergentibus, supra frontem breviter profunda 

 divergentibus ; juxta oculos 2 punctis setiferis positis ; 

 prothorace subquadrato profunde canaliculato (canalicula 

 marginem anticam hand attingente), intra augulos posticos 

 transversim depresso, basi utrinque foveolato marginibus 

 lateralibus leviter sinuatis; elytris laevibus secundum 

 suturam depressis, postice utrinque puncto magno notatis ; 

 tibiis anticis externe fortiter bidentatis. Long., 14|- mm. 

 This species does not appear to resemble closely any yet 

 described except E. Icevis, Cast., from which it appears to differ 

 as follows : — It is smaller, the furrows on the head end pos- 

 teriorly quite abruptly without any indication of a transverse 

 impression (in Icevis there is stated by M. Casteluau to be a 

 line connecting the apices of the frontal furrows with the eye) , 

 the thorax is not at all longer than wide, but when measured 

 carefully is found to be a minute fraction of a millimetre wider 

 than long ; there is no impression on the humeral angle of the 



