1400 FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
good, in no case I think instituting a comparison between one 
species and another. D. Couloni, Burm., ought certainly to be 
removed from the genus, and I propose for it the generic name 
Adoryphorus. As I possess but a single example I am not in a 
position, by dissection, to expose the generic characters fully, 
but the character mentioned by Drs. Lacordaire and Burmeister, — 
the atrophy of the upper lobe of the maxilla — together A\dth its 
small size and peculiar facies, render it an obvious error to 
continue calling it a Dasygnathus. 
According to all the hitherto published descriptions of the genus 
the upper lobe of the maxillae is devoid of teeth. I have recently 
dissected a considerable number of specimens appertaining to it 
and find that very few of them have this lobe toothless. 
Up to the present time three Australian species that appear to be 
rightly placed in Dasygnathus have been described, viz., D. Dejeani 
9, W. S. Macleay, Australis Boisd., JIastersi, & Q) Mad. 
The original type of the first of these is in the collection of the 
Hon. W. Macleay, alongside which (Mr. Macleay tells me) is a male 
Dasygnathus placed there (I understand) by the original describer. 
hlr. Macleay has furnished me with a careful description of both 
these specimens and has given me a male which he has compared 
with the male just mentioned and found to be identical ; he has 
also favoured me with a detailed description of a male and female 
Dasygnathus in the cabinet of Mr. W. S. iNIacleay labelled D. 
Australis. With these materials before me, and also an assem- 
blage of specimens of the genus from various collections, I have 
prepared the following notes and desci’iptions of new species. 
The specimens standing in Mr. Macleay’s collection as Dejeani 
and Australis must be regarded as representing those species 
coi’rectly. The following descriptions of them are compiled 
(except that of ^ Dtgeani and 9 Australis) from Mr. Macleay’s 
notes. 
Dasygnathus Dejeani, W. S. iNIacl. 
(J. Blackish-pitchy, shining; the underside of a somewhat ferru- 
ginous tone and rather densely clothed with longish ferruginous 
