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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 with Descriptions of New Genera and 

 Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. 



[Read October 5, 1897.] 



XXII. 



CtJCUJIDJE. 



PROSTOMIS. 



P. intermedins, sp. nov. Statura P. Atkinsotii, Waterh. ; rufo- 

 brunneus, nitidus ; antennis brevibus, articulo 3° minus 

 elongato ; capite prothoraceque sparsim subtilissime punctu- 

 latis ; elytris subtiliter punctulato-striatis ; juguke calcaribus 

 lateralibus antice approximates. Long., 3 — 4 1. ; lat., 



3 3 1 



With antennae resembling those of P. cornutus, Waterh., this 

 species has its jugular processes like those of P. Atkinsoni, 

 Waterh. 



Victoria and N/.S. Wales. 



PECTINICORNES. 



AULACOCYCLUS. 



A. collaris, Blackb. In describing this species (Tr. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., 1896, p. 233) I omitted to state that its habitat is K 

 Queensland. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



APHODIUS. 



A. Victoria, sp. nov. Minus elongatus ; minus nitidus ; pubes- 

 cens ; colore variabilis, capite prothoraceque nigris vel nigro- 

 piceis, elytris lividis longitudinaliter plus minusve piceo- 

 notatis, corpore subtus nigro-vel brunneo-piceo, pedibus 

 lividis plus minusve picescentibus ; capite prothoraceque 

 crebre subgrosse subrugulose punctulatis, illo antice reflexo ; 

 prothorace sat transverso postice haud (vel vix manifeste) 

 marginato, lateribus minus arcuatis, angulis posticis fere 

 rectis, disco postice leviter canaliculato ; elytris striatis, 

 interstitiis alternis sat convexis. 

 Maris prothoracis lateribus postice sinuatis, capite antice trun- 

 cato, tibiis anticis gracilibus extus bidentatis. 



