LIST OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF 

 TASMANIA. 



By Arthur M. Lea. 



[Reprinted from Proceeding-s of the Association for rhe Advancement 

 ot Science, 190:2.] 



The Coleoptera of Tasmania have never been considered as 

 a whole since the time of Erichson, ('') and no list or 

 catalogue of the species has ever been compiled. About 

 10,000 species have now been recorded from Australia and 

 Tasmania, of which scarcely 400 have been described from 

 Tasmania. A very imperfect knowledge of what species 

 are confined to the island exists, as species supposed only 

 to occur there, are constantly being found in Victoria and 

 New South Wales, and even sometimes in Western Aus- 

 tralia and Queensland ; on the other hand, Tasmanian 

 collectors frequently obtain mainland species which have 

 never been recorded from Tasmania. 



I have considered it advisable, therefore, to prepare a 

 list of the species hitherto recorded from Tasmania, adding 

 to the list such species as I have seen in Tasmanian col- 

 lections, or have myself taken in Tasmania. In this list, 

 the genera and families are placed as far as possible in the 

 order in which they appear in Masters' '' Catalogue of the 

 Described Coleoptera of Australia;'" the species are placed 

 alphabetically. All known synonyms have been omitted. 



In the list an asterisk {*) has been placed after those 

 species which are known to occur on the mainland, whilst 

 another (f), has been placed after those species which have 

 been introduced. Deducting the introduced species (40) 

 there remain 1000 species and varieties, of which 423 are so 

 far, known only from Tasmania; and one being known 

 only from New Zealand and Tasmania ; but probably many 

 of these will be found to occur on the mainland, especially as 

 the beetles of the Australian Alps (and Mount Kosciusko 

 'n particular) become better known. 



When the Coleoptera of Tasmania have been thoroughly 

 worked out, it will probably be found that there are over 

 "2000 species, whilst in the whole of the Australian States, 

 there are probably at least 20.000 species. 



Carabid^. 



Calosoma Schayeri, Er.^ 

 Lacordairia anchomenoides, Cast. 

 Erichsoni, Cast. 



(*) Wiegmann's Archives, 1842 



