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Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, 

 ^wiTH Descriptions of Ne^w Genera and 

 Species. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. 



[Read October 7, 1890.] 



YIII. 



NITIDULID.E. 



CRYPTARCHA. 



I am at a loss to understand why C. flavipennis and Jlavogut- 

 tata, Reitter, are included by Mr. Masters in his Catalogue of 

 Australian insects. The author of those species gives their 

 habitat as " India, or." 



COLYDIID^. 



MINTHEA. 



I have before me several specimens of an insect which has re- 

 cently been found in the South Australian Museum in the wood 

 of native curiosities. It is evidently a member of this genus, 

 originally founded on a South American species, and which has 

 since been reported from New Guinea and the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago. It appears to be very close to M. similata, Pasc, so close 

 indeed that I do not think it well to give it a new name (espe- 

 cially when I consider the probability of its not being an indigen- 

 ous Australian insect). I should judge, however, that it is a 

 somewhat narrower and more elongate insect, from its differing 

 thus from the fissure of M. sQiiamiqera, Pasc, to which Mr. 



squamigera, 



Pascoe calls M. similata " exceedingly like," without mentioning 

 any difference of shape ; moreover, Mr. Pascoe says that the 

 prothorax of M. similata is anteriorly " somewhat broader than 

 the head," whereas in the examples before me I do not think that 

 the head is any narrower than the front of the prothorax ; but 

 as I do not find any other distinction, and the shape of M. similata 

 is not actually stated, but only arrived at by inference, and the 

 slight discrepancy in the width of the head may be a mere trifling 

 error of observation, or even a sexual character, it is quite 

 likely that this may be M. sim,ilata. 



CUCUJID^. 



L^MOPHLCEUS. 



L. jjusillus, Schonh. I have received examples of this appa- 

 rently cosmopolitan insect (which I cannot ascertain to have been 



