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Tight in this it is evident that Mr. Pascoe had not seen the 

 male, the sexual characters of which are inconsistent with its 

 being placed in the same family even as Phaleria (according to 

 M. Lacodaire's system). In describing as a Scymena therefore 

 the following species it will be necessary to premise that its 

 antenna) are quite as long as the width of the head, that its 

 maxillary palpi have the apical joint subsecuriform, that the 

 metasternum is evidently shorter than that of Phaleria^ that 

 the elytra are ciliated round the lateral margins, and that in 

 the male the anterior and intermediate tarsi are strongly 

 dilated, while in the female the external margin of the anterior 

 tibia is strongly and roundly dilated at the apex. These 

 •characters in conjunction with the quadrate emargination of 

 the clypeus would place the insect in the subfamily JPeclinidce 

 of M. Lacodaire, which up to the present time I believe has 

 had no described Australian representative. It is of course 

 qviitQ possible that it may not be congeneric with Mr. Pascoe's 

 Scymena, but under all the circumstances I think it is better 

 not to propose a new name. 



.8. Australis, sp. no v. Sat nitida, ferruginea, labro nigro ; 

 elytris striatis, striis fortiter, interstitiis vix evidenter, 

 punctulatis. Long. 3 1. 



The colour is pale ferruginous, in some parts (generally the 

 head and scuteHum) inclining to rufous. The labrum is black. 

 On the underside there is a good deal of reddish colouring down 

 the centre, and the coxae are almost fuscous red in some ex- 

 amples, in some examples the metasternum being conspicu- 

 ously pallid. The head and prothorax are faintly and mod- 

 erately closely, but not very finely, punctured. The latter is 

 (across the base) quite twice as wide as it is long down the 

 middle. The scutellum is strongly transverse and triangular 

 in shape. The elytra are striated, not very deeply, each stria 

 containing a row of closely-set strong punctures. Under a 

 good Coddington lens the interstices show faint indications 

 of fine puncturation ; the two or three nearest to the suture 

 are slightly convex, the rest almost perfectly flat. The 

 external margin of all the tibiae is ciliated and obscurely den- 

 ticulate. 



Several specimens (only one of them a male) occurred to me 

 under marine rejectamenta at Port Lincoln. 



Differs from both the previously described species of 

 Scymena in the greater length of its antennae. Probably the 

 difference in this respect from S. amphibia, Pasc, is not very 

 marked, but that insect is said to have " sulcate punctate " 

 -elytra. 



