CoJeoptera, in which he distinguishes a genus of P(cderidn' from 

 Domene inter aliia by its front tibiae Ijeing " ahnost simple." 



The genus Domene is characterised in M. Fauvel's Fn. Gall.- 

 Rhen., vol. iii., p. 305, — ^a work to which I do not know how to 

 procure access. 



D. (?) Torrensensis, sjd. nov. Tota pallide ferruginea ; pedibus 



paullo dilutioribus ; capite prothoraceque confertim subtilis- 



sime (illo subaspere), elytris vix minus confertioi minus sub- 



tiliter^ abdomine fere ut caput, punctulatis ; prothorace linea 



mediana longitudinali tenui notato, hac postice sat manifeste 



elevata antice subobsoleta ; elytris prothorace paullo lon- 



gioribus. Long., 2 1 1. ; lat., f 1. (vix). 



The head and prothorax bear a system of very faintly impressed 



and very inconspicuous punctures larger than and additional to 



the system of very fine close puncturation mentioned above. 



The antenna? (set back) would reach quite to (but scarcely beyond) 



the base of the prothorax. The head and elytra are of about 



equal width, the prothorax being narrower. 



This species seems to differ from D. Australuf, FvL, inter alia 

 in being smaller with the elytra longer (in D. Anstralice these are 

 said to be scarcely so long as the prothorax, — -in the present 

 insect they are distinctly longer). M. Fauvel's description of 

 his species unfortunately consists largely of comparison with a 

 European Domene to which I cannot refer, but should judge that 

 its head is less closely punctulate than that of D. Torrensensis, 

 as he says that it is " much more sparsely punctured " than that 

 of D. stilicincc, whereas the head in the present species is punc- 

 tured about as closely as it well could be. 



South Australia ; in debris of the Torrens River. 



PALAMIXUS. 



I met with a single example last November (in the Victorian 

 Alpine district) of this genus represented in the Australian 

 described fauna by a single species (P. Australice, F\d.) described 

 on a unique specimen from Queensland. As M. Fauvel's descrip- 

 tion (so-called) is merely a brief comparison with a species from 

 New Guinea which probably is not in any Australian Museum, 

 it is impossible to say whether or not the insect before me is iden- 

 tical ; I should judge, however, that it is very similar, but it 

 appears to be a little smaller, and is probably distinct. One feels 

 strongly tempted to treat sucli worthless descriptions as non- 

 existent. 



BLEDIUS. 



B. insignicornis, sp. nov. J\Iinus nitidus ; antice pube fulva 

 minus crebre vestitus, abdomine setis erectis instructo ; 

 niger ; mandibulis (his elongatis) antennarum que basi pluii 



