[Frotn (he Annals and Magazine of Natuiial History for 

 Jaimari/ IHGO.] 



DESCRIPTIONS 



OF 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES 



OF 



TENEBRIONIDtE 



FROM 



AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA. 



BY 



FRANCIS P. PASCOE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Plate X.] 



Dr. Howitt, of Melbourne, having recently sent me a large 

 collection of Heteromera from Australasia and New Zealand, I 

 propose to describe in this Magazine such of tlie new Australian 

 species as belong to the family Tenebrionida^, adding several 

 more derived from other sources, leaving the remainder and 

 those from New Zealand for a future opportunity. 



The Tenebrionidag* belong preeminently to the hot and dry 

 regions of the earth ; the epigeous or more normal forms are 

 found in very small numbers, either in the humid lands of the 

 tropics or in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere. 



* In the sense in which it is constituted by M, Lacordaire (Gen. des 

 Col^opt. t. v.). The great advantage of having a standard which is in 

 everybody's hands appears to me to render it desirable to conform as 

 closely as possible to the classification and to the principles of analysis 

 applied to the characters of the various divisions of the family. Only, for 

 the sake of greater simplicity, I have called his " tribus " and " groupes " 

 (the latter often of equal rank with the former) sublamilies. Tlie " sec- 

 tions " and '' cohorts, being merely designations of the primary branches 

 of a dichotomous arrangement, do not themselves form natural divisions. 



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