Tenebrionidsej^/'owi Australia and Tasmania. 43 



mate of all entire. Mesosternum deeply notched for tlie re- 

 ception of the prosternal process. Metasternum and abdomen 

 as in Adelium^ the former, however, rather longer. 



This is a very distinct genus, for which at present it is dif- 

 ficult to assign any very near ally, although its habit is that of 

 Atryphodes. 



Byallius rettcidatus. PI. X. fig. 6. 

 B. niger, infi*a et pedibusque nitidis. 

 Hah. Mountains of Gippsland. 



Black ; head and prothorax very slightly nitid, minutely 

 punctured, the lateral borders of the latter recurved ; scutellum 

 very transverse and glossy ; elytra gradually broader from the 

 base, shortly rounded towards the apex, w^rinkled with small 

 irregular vermiculate depressions, giving the whole sm-face a 

 reticulate appearance, the epipleuras minutely ])unctured ; 

 sterna, abdomen, and legs black, shining ; tarsi ferruginous 

 brown, clothed beneath as well as the edge of the lip with rich 

 golden hairs ; antennae w^ith a greyish pubescence towards the 

 tips. Length 9 lines. 



Seirofrana* jyroxima. 



S. nigra, convexa, subnitida ; prothorace marginibus erosis : elytris 

 fusco-asneis, liueis interruptis elevatis, iiiterstitiis biseriatim 

 punctatis. 



Hah. Victoria. 



Resembles S. catenidata, Boisd., but more convex, entirely 

 subnitid above ; the elytra dark brown bronze, with double 

 rows of small simple punctures between the raised interrupted 

 lines or tubercles. In >S'. catemdata the middle of the pro- 

 thorax and elytra is decidedly flattish, the latter a pure dense 

 black, and between the glossy lines of tubercles opaque ; the 

 punctm-es, also in double rows, have each a glossy granule at 

 the anterior edge. The prothorax in both species is marked 

 with minute short longitudinal lines, between which the punc- 

 tm*es are placed, and the lateral margins are jagged or erose 

 at their edges. Dr. Howitt says that this new species is the 

 Victorian representative of 8. catemdata, whose liabitat ap- 

 pears to be confined to the Sydney district. My specimens of 

 S. proadma are about 6 lines long ; the older species is larger. 



Seirotrana crenicollis (Hewitt's MS.). PI. X. fig. 4. 

 S. planata, brunnescens, subopaca, granulis nitidis instnicta, mar- 



* Pascoe, Jouru. of Entom. ii. p. 483. 



