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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 21, 1902.] 

 XXXI. 



STAPH VLINID.E. 

 LEUCOCRASPEDUM. 



L. lugens, Blackb. In describin*:,' this species (supra, p. 18) I 

 accidentally omitted to state that I met with it in N.S. Wales, on 

 the Blue Mountains. Mr. Lea reports it from Tasmania. 



SILPHID.E. 



CLAMBUS. 



C. Simsoni, sp. no v. B re vis ; sat latus ; nitidus ; setis brevibus 

 subtilibus aureis sparsius vestitus ; antice hevis sed elytris 

 pone medium sat fortiter minus crebre punctulatis ; supra 

 rufo-brunneus, elytris versus margines infuscatis ; subtus, 

 capite prothorace et coxis posticis testaceis ; antennis palpis 

 pedibusque testaceis ; antennarum articulis 2" quam 3''~ fere 

 duplo longiori, 3" 4" (|ue sat elongatis inter se sat a^qualibus, 

 5° — ^7'' brevibus, 7" quam 6"' sat latiori, 8" magno vix trans- 

 verso quam pnecedentes 3 conjuncti vix breviori, 9" quam 

 8"' vix breviori subangustiori ; elytrorum stria subsuturali 

 nulla. Long., J 1. 

 Smaller than the European C. armadillo, DeG., and less nar- 

 rowed behind, the colour very different, and the puncturation of 

 the hinder part of the elytra very evidently stronger. This 

 ^enus has not hitherto been recorded as Australian. 



Tasmania ; sent to me by Mr. A. Simson. 

 C. Tasmani, sp. nov. Minus brevis, postice angustatus ; nitidus ; 

 setis elongatis f ulvis sparsim vestitus ; vix manifesto punc- 

 tulatus ; rufo-brunneus, elytrorum disco infuscato ; pedibus 

 testaceis; elytrorum stria subsuturali postice sit profunda. 

 Long., /^ 1. 

 I am not able to examine the antenna of this species, of which 

 I have only a single specimen. It is however very distinct from 

 all the other Australasian Clamhi known to me by the very long 

 and very sparse fine seta? of its upper surface. In build it resem- 

 bles C. armadillo^ but it is a trifle larger and especially broader. 



