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CLERIDAE. 

 Natalis porcata, Fab., Ooldea. 

 Necrobia rufipes, DeG., Cooper and Leigh Creeks. 



Lemidia variicollis, Lea. 



A specimen of this species was reared from an old gall 

 (probably hymenopterous) on a mulga tree at Wookalla; it 

 has the prothorax as described on a co-type of the species, but 

 the vitta on each elytron is completely interrupted near the 

 apex, thus leaving an isolated blackish spot ; its femora and 

 tibiae are entirely pale. 



L. meridionalis, Lea, Parachilna. 



BOSTRYCHIDAE. 



Bostrychopsis jesuita, Fab., Carraweena, Clayton 

 Creek, Kopperamanna, Ooldea, Parachilna. 



TENEBRIONIDAE. 



Alphitobius diaperinus, Panz., Ooldea. 

 Hopatrum cowardense, Blackb., Cooper Creek. 

 H. longicorne, Blackb., Wookalla. 

 Tenebrio molitor, Linn., Parachilna. 

 Hypaulax orcus, Pasc, Ooldea. 

 Brises trachynotoides, Pasc, Winbring. 



Helaeus conjunctus, n. sp. 

 PI. xxxvi., fig. 80. 



Of a dingy reddish-brown, some parts paler, carinated 

 parts of prothorax and of elytra shining black. Upper-surface 

 moderately densely clothed with stout, stramineous setae, 

 uniform and decumbent on pronotum, subseriately arranged 

 and suberect on elytra. 



Head widely concave in front, densely granulate behind 

 eyes. Prothorax rather long (13 x 9 J mm.), disc strongly 

 convex, and crowned with a strong interrupted ridge; with 

 numerous small setiferous granules ; flanges wide, obliquely 

 elevated, touching at their tips, with smaller and sparser 

 granules than on disc, margins not upturned. Scutellum with 

 an acute projection in front. Elytra no wider than widest 

 part of prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex, surface 

 shagreened and with small scattered punctures; each with a 

 conspicuous carina from base, the two subparallel for about 

 half their length, then converging to summit of apical slope, 

 and then diverging till each joins in with a conspicuous row 

 of shining black-tipped granules ; suture flat throughout ; 

 flanges not very wide, widest at extreme base, nowhere as 

 wide as the distance between the carinae, with minute 



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