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testaceous joint — forming what I have called the stipes — between 

 the two normally large basal joints — which may be said to form 

 the scape of the antenna, the second of wliich is of testaceous 

 colour — and the club. In the female the dilated joints (of black 

 colour) forming the club begin with the sixth joint and the 

 stipes consists of three testaceous joints — the second joint of the 

 antennce being also testaceous as in the male. 



Victoria; Glenelg K. district. 



T. (Megatoma) inorio, Er: Reitter discusses this species in 

 Verb. Ver. Briinn. (1881, p. 36) and is disposed to identify it 

 with a Trogoderma that he had examined, and which he said 

 agreed very well with Erickson's description except in being 

 somewhat smaller than the size given for the type. As Erickson 

 does not supply information regarding the structural characters 

 of his species, his description would fit several species that are 

 before me, but I have little doubt that one or other of them is 

 morio ; and as one of them is from Tasmania (Erickson's locality) 

 I have no hesitation in fixing upon it to bear the name. It is 

 extremely close to T. mcmrulum, Black b., differing chiefly in the 

 antennal character of the female. In the female of maurulum 

 joints 2 — 5 are testaceous, 3 very evidently longer than 4, 4 a 

 trifle longer than 5, 3 — 5 form the stipes, 6 — 11 are black and 

 form the club. In morio joints 2 — 6 are testaceous, 3 if any- 

 thing shorter than 4, 4 and 5 successively slightly shorter, 3 — 6 

 form the stipes, 7 — 11 are (not black but) reddish piceous and 

 form the club. T. morio is a little narrow^er than maurulum 

 with its sides straighter and more parallel. 



THAUMAGLOSSA. 



One species {concavifrons, Reitt. ) has been doubtfully attributed 

 by its author to Tasmania. He says of it " vaterland fraglich " 

 and then suggests that it may be Tasmanian. It is an insect of 

 black colour with some parts — including the head — red, the fore- 

 head deeply concave, and is unknown to me. The genus how- 

 ever occurs in Australia undoubtedly as a Dermestid now before 

 me — from Queensland and N.S. Wales, and which agrees well 

 with the description of Anthrenus nigricans, Macl. — is a member 

 of it. Its ten-jointed antennae in combination with cylindric 

 tibiae, elongate basal joint of the tarsi, toothed claws, and elytra 

 separately rounded at the apex render it easy to identify. There 

 is a ver}^ strong oblique stria on either side of the median part of 

 the basal ventral segment. 



CRYPTORHOPALUM, 



The Australian DermesiidcB that have been attributed to this 

 genus appear to me to represent two distinct genera. Reitter's 

 descriptions of the three species that he attributed to the genus 



