Tke Insect Fcmna of Van Diemen's Land, 331 



VanDiemen^s Land furnishes one new species of the genus 

 Crijptochis MacLeay (^ ),tlie systematic arrangement of which 

 occasions so much difhculty (f). 



The Melolonthce forwarded from Van Diemen's Land all 

 belong to genera peculiar to New Holland. Ano^lognathus 

 appears to have its chief habitat on the Continent: — only one 

 species, A. sitturalis, Boisd {%), has been sent to us from Van 

 Diemen's Land. Four new genera occur between Melolciitha 

 and Serica ; they agree with the former in having a distinctly 

 marked lip, with the latter in other peculiarities, particularly 

 in the form of the maxillae, which have a palate, but a 

 sharpened and unarmed point. S'llopa, containing no less 

 than eight new species, whose number in time will increase 

 materially, is easily recognized by the projecting upper 

 edge of the lip. Nepytis, founded on a single species, is 

 distinguished by having only seven antenna-joints, an 

 example I believe to be unparalleled in the entire division 

 of the Melolonthce. Scitala has eight antenna-joints, also a 

 rare occurrence. Telura, with the usual number of nine, is 

 distinguished by the unusual length of the third joint. 



Of the genera already known, DipliucepJiala affords us two 

 species 2>.5/;fe;i(5?e7^^ (MacLeay) (§) stind^B.^ndcIiella (Kirby:) ( ||) 

 Liparetnis (^) presents one new one, very similar to L. sylvic- 

 ola (Melol. sylvicola F.J Pliylloctocus {^*) presents P>4. 



be its tjqje,) this genus contains tlie species : Scar, laiipes Guer. Voy. d. 1. Coquille 

 Zool. II. 2. p. 80. Atl. Ins., pi. 3, f. 1. Boisd. Faun. del'Ocean, i63, 3,— and probably 

 also Sc.pnrcellus Boisduval a. a. O. 164-5. 



(*) Horse. Entomologicse i., p. 138. 



(+) Compare the sixth series of this Archive, vol. 2, p. 24g. 



(i) Favm. del'Ocean, 178-14. 



(?) Opt. King's Narrat. of a Survey of the Intertrop. and West. Coasts of Austr. ii., 

 440, 15.— Waterhouse Transact, of the Ent. Soc. of Lend. I., 220-6. 



((I) Waterhouse ibid, 221-7. 



(IT) Guerm, Voyage de la Coquille, Zoologique, II. 2, p. go. 



(**) Fischer Mem. de la Soc. Imp.des Nat. de Moscou, VI., p. 255. It is identical with 

 the genus Macrofliops MacLeay, but this name must be subordinate to that of Fischer 

 as it was given subsequently. 



