uniform dark -brown tint, while in others thej have a wider and 

 rather conspicuous dark-red hind border ; the distinctness of the 

 red margin of the elytra usually seems to vary according to the 

 light in which the specimen is held. The legs are of a pale-brown 

 colour (very different from the decided testaceous tone of the 

 same in >S'. chihins), the femora sometimes more or less infuscate. 

 In the male the third ventral segment is a little flattened in the 

 middle of its hinder part, the fourth bears a semicircular fovea, 

 the fifth is widely and shallowly concave in its whole length, and 

 the sixth is widely and sinuately emarginate behind. 



The present species would seem to differ from S. rnficoUis, FvL, 

 in having shorter elytra, and probably in various other charac- 

 ters. From >S'. digitalis, FvL, it appears to differ inter alia by its 

 tibise being of uniformly light colour. S. latebricola, Blackb., is 

 a smaller and narrower insect* with longer elytra. 



Victoria ; near Wandiligong, among dead leaves. 



DOM EXE. 



I am perhaps running some risk in referj-ing the following- 

 species to this genus, as I have not seen M. Fauvel's diagnosis of 

 its characters, — but from its place in that learned author's tabu- 

 lation of the Australian F(t'derid genera and from references to 

 Domene in other memoirs, as well as from the close resemblance 

 of this insect to D. Australia as described b}' M. FauAel, I think 

 I am not far wrong ; at any rate there is no other genus known 

 as Australian to which the present species can be referred. 

 Having only a single specimen, I have been unable to examine 

 its mouth organs fully ; but the following are its principal charac- 

 ters (some of which may be sexual) as far as they can be seen 

 without dissection : — -antennae short, stout, of the Lathrobiiun 

 type ; head and prothorax almost as in Scopcms : antei'ior femora 

 armed with a distinct (though not strongly developed) tooth 

 beneath ; front tibia:^ with their upper portion compressed and 

 dilated beneath into a large obtuse tooth, the lower portion 

 slender ; anterior tarsi not dilated ; posterior rather short, the 

 basal two joints equal or nearly so, the third a little shorter, the 

 fifth shorter than the preceding four together. 



The shape of the front tibiae is very peculiar, and I should hesi- 

 tate much (on account of this character not being mentioned in 

 M. Fauvel's tabulation) to refer the specimen before me to Domene 

 were it not for a note in Dr. Sharp's memoirs on New Zealand 



* The measurement of this species, as of others described in the same 

 memoir (Trans. Roy. Soc, 8. A., 1887) was unfortunately taken with a 

 millimetre measure which I afterwards discovered to be slightly inaccurate, 

 or rather not in accordance with the theory of a millimetre equalling half a 

 line. The length of S. latehrkola is 1^1. 



