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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA 
WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEw GENERA AND 
SPECIES. 
By the Rev. T. Buacksurn, B.A. 
OAT. 
The following pages contain infer alia descriptions of a num- 
ber of new species of Coccinellide, collected in various parts of 
Australia by Mr. A Koebele, and sent to me subsequently to the 
collection dealt with in Part XI of this series of memoirs. 
HY DROPHILIDA. 
BEROSUS. 
B. majusculus, Blackb. This appears to be the Southern form 
of B. externespinosus, Fairm. All the South Australian examples 
I have seen have their legs entirely testaceous, while those from 
Queensland have their posterior four femora widely black at 
the base. In both forms the apical spines of the elytra are 
variable, and I do not find any constant character apart from 
colour to distinguish the two. 
PHILHYDRUS. 
P. levigatus, Blackb. I have recently received from Mr. 
Tryon, of Brisbane, some examples of P. maculiceps, Macl., taken 
by Mr. Relton. P. Jevigatus being not unlike it, it may be well 
to record that besides the colour differences, the maxillary palpi 
are considerably shorter in /evigatus and the puncturation of 
the elytra is evidently closer, the rows of larger punctures, more- 
over, being scarcely traceable, whereas in macwuliceps they are 
very weli defined under a good lens. 
DERMESTID A. 
TROGODERMA. 
T. Reitteri, sp. nov. Ovale; nigro-hirtum; nigrum, antennis 
pedibus et elytrorum humeris (nonnullorum exemplorum 
marginibus postice quoque) rufis; obscure sat sparsim 
punctulatum ; sulcis antennarlis profundis bene determin- 
atis, triangularibus, postice clausis. 
Femine (/) antennarum clava 3-articulata. Long., 121 ; lat., 
foi 
The distinctive characters of this species are its sparse 
