B26 The Insect Fauna of Van Biemen's Land^, 



the former by one^the latter by two new species. The trunk- 

 beetles with short snouts and folded (?) antennge which have 

 been forwarded from Van Diemen's Land, belong exclusively 

 to New Holland forms. Of Gonijotertts, one known speeieSj^ 

 G, gihherusJ)e].{^) has been sent : of Amisallus, a second nev/ 

 one : of Trodomis, Fr. scutellaris (f) : of Aterpus two new 

 ones : (of which one, A. scoparius, is nearly related to 

 A. cidtratus ; the other, A. ruhiis, is the most important of 

 the yet known species :) of Felororhimis a second new one : 

 of RJiinari(S, which I prefer, placing here, rather than with 

 the long-snouted beetles, also a new one ; of Amycterus, 

 three species, two new, and one the real A.mirabilis.{X) 

 The remaining trunk-beetles of this division, though 

 unimportant, form three new genera, one of these, Steri- 

 ^liiis, is most nearly united to the European Flintlms ; 

 the other two Nothrodes and Mandalotus belong to the 

 group OtiorhyncJi(E , and have most affinity with Tyloderes t 

 our collection contains four species of Mandalotus, and one 

 each of the other two genera. 



Of the trunk-beetles with folded antennse and long 

 snouts, the genus Orthorhinus, peculiar to New Holland, 

 presents us with three species, viz. 0. Klugii Hope, (§) and 

 two new ones ; the more widely spread genus Frirhimis has 

 sent one remarkable new species. One small Bagous-like 



(*) Boisd. Faun, de rOcean, 324, 8. Schonh. Gen. et Spec. Cure. VI. 463. 5. 



(+) Schonh. Gen. et Spec. Cure. I. 504. 1. Cur cul. scutellaris Fab. Syst. Eleuth. II. 

 519. 71. Oliv. Ent. V. 83, 393, 475, t. 12. f. 142, 1. 19, f. 420. Herbst. Beetles. VI. 312. 

 286, t. 84. f. 10. Ctwc. exsertus Fabr. Syst. El. II. 534. l63. 



(i Psalidura mirahilis Kirby, Transact, of the Linn. Soc. XII. 469, 21, t. 23, f. 9. 

 Amycterus mirabundus, Schonh. Gen. etSpec. Cvirc. II. 471. 2, Schonherr describes 

 the female only ; his A. mirahilis is another somewhat larger species, of which the male 

 has a cork-shaped appendage to the thorax ; this appendage is wanting m Kivby's 

 species. A fine specimen of this trunk beetle might be thus described ; Fusco squam- 

 ulosus, thorace vitta laterali lineaque media teuui cmerieis, elytris nigro-cinereoque 

 tessellatis. 



(i) Schonh. Gen. et Spec. Cure. III. 246. 3.] In one beautifully coloured specimen 

 the band of the wing-cases is snowy white in the centre, the termiuatmg pomt 

 of the wing cases is either fawn-coloured or white. 



