324 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, 



In page 96 of this volame of the Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of New South Wales, I gave the characters of a 

 genus which I named PhiJoscaphtts to a group of Scaritidce up to 

 that time included in the genus Garemom. Of that group I had 

 previously described two species under the names of Carenwm 

 tuberculatum and carinatum. 



The first of these is found over a large surface of country 

 extending from East to West from the Murrumbidgee to South 

 Australia, and probably having an equally wide range from 

 North to South. It is not, however, an insect which can be 

 called common anywhere, in that respect resembling almost all 

 the Australian Scaritidoe. 



The second species Garenum carinatum is very different from 

 the first in size and appearance, and is one of the rarest of insects : 

 I have only known of its being taken at Wingelo, near Goul- 

 burn, and at Bungendore, in the Lake George basin. 



A third species PMloscaphus Mastersii, I described in the Paper 

 named " The Insects of Gayndah " (ante page 96), and I men- 

 tioned then that I knew of two other species in collections. One 

 of these from Nicol Bay I propose to name. 



Philoscaphus costalis. 

 Long. 14 lin. 



Niger, thorace transverso lunvilato capite latiori postice lobato, 



elytris ovatis scabris subtuberculatis granulatis sulcis later- 



alibus binis. 



Except in having a double lateral groove on the elytra, this 



species is scarcely distinguishable from tuherculatus and Mastersii. 



This groove which lies between the costa which forms the 



apparent side of the elytra as seen from above, and the true 



lateral costa, and extends from the humeral angle to near the 



apex, is in this species divided by an intermediate costa, which 



takes its rise near the humeral angle and extends towards the 



apex as far as the others. 



Philoscaphus lateralis. 

 Long. 11 lin. 

 Niger, thorace transverso lunulato capite latiori postice lobato, 



