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FuRTHKR Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 ^wiTH Descriptions of Ne^w Species. 



[Read October 4, 1887.1 



Br THE Eet. T. Blackbtien-, B.A. 



The following paper is partly supplementary to the series 

 of papers that I have read before the Eoyal Society during the 

 year, but I take the opportunity its publication affords to 

 furnish descriptions of new species that have recently come 

 under my notice. 



I have lately had the advantage of receiving a communi- 

 cation from my friend, D. Sharp, Esq., M.D., of Shirley Warren, 

 near Southampton, England, President of the Ent. Society 

 of London, relative to a number of types that I forwarded 

 to him some time ago, and also to some of the series of 

 memoirs that I have read before the jRoyal Society. As Dr. 

 Sharp's standing among students of entomology is so high that 

 he is probably generally regarded as '"'' facile princeps'' of liv- 

 ing coleopterists, I have received his notes and determinations 

 with extreme interest, and am glad to have received them in 

 time to correct in this present volume of our transactions two 

 errors that they have brought to my notice in my previous 

 papers — one the application to a new genus of a name that 

 was already in use, the other the description by me as new of 

 a species that M. Eauvel had already described in the Ann. 

 Mus. Civ. G-en., 1877. In correcting the latter (see below) I 

 have explained why I failed to identify my insect with M. 

 !Fau vol's. 



CARABID^. 



(Sub-Fam. Scabitid^.) 



EPiLECTUs gen. nov. 



I offer this name as a substitute for EicrygnatJius (vid. ant. 



p. 12) which. Dr. Sharp points out, is already in use for a 



genus of GarahidcB. 



(Sub-Fam. Cratocebidje). 

 PHOETICOSOMTJS. 



In characterising this genus. Dr. Schaum states that the ab- 

 breviated scutellar elytral stria is absent. This, however, does 

 not appear to be strictly correct. In most examples of P.felix, 

 Sch. (the type of the genus), I find traces of it, generally 

 amouEting to no more than an impression at the extreme base, 

 but sometimes being more prolonged, and in several other 



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