Tenebrionidaj from Australia and Tasmania. 43 



mate of all entire. Mesosterrram deeply notched for the re- 

 ception of the prosternal process. Metasternum and abdomen 

 as in Adeltum, 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 reticulatus. PI. X. fig. 6. 

 B. niger, infra 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, wrinkled with small 

 irregular vermiculate depressions, giving the whole surface a 

 reticulate appearance, the epipleuraj minutely punctured ; 

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

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

 golden hairs ; antenna3 with a greyish pubescence towards the 

 tips. Length 9 lines. 



Seirotrana * proxima. 



8. nigra, convexa, subnitida ; protborace marginibus erosis ; elytris 

 fusco-aeneis, lineis interruptis elevatis, interstitiis biseriatim 

 pimctatis. 



Ilab. Victoria. 



Resembles 8. catenulata, 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 8. catenulata 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 

 punctures, 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- 

 tures 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. catenulata^ whose habitat ap- 

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

 8. joroxima are about 6 lines long ; the older species is larger. 



8eirotrana crenicollis (Howitt's MS.). PI. X. fig. 4. 

 8. planata, brunnescens, subopaca, granulis nitidis instructa, mar- 



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



