1418 FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
tulate-striate), and of Fortnumi that its distinction from Austra- 
lasia is doubtful. A few years later still M. Candeze added 
another species from Southern Australia under the name cylindri- 
formis, which he says must be placed beside Murrayi, and a com- 
parison of the descriptions furnishes no tangible difference better 
than that in one the length and width of the prothorax are “ sub- 
equal,” while in the other that segment is longer than wide. 
Finally, in describing another species from Northern Australia (a 
very distinct one), he assigns it a place near cylindriformis, with 
a note that the latter species may be identical with Fortnumi, 
My own impression is that all these five names represent one 
and the same species, and should stand in a catalogue as Australasice., 
Gory, — or at any rate the rest be relegated to an Appendix (which 
our Australian Catalogue sorely needs) of names not entitled 
without further evidence to a place in the body of the work. 
The examples before me, which I consider as representing forms 
of Australasice, differ in length from 12 lines to 24 lines. The 
females are usually larger than the males and much more cylin- 
drical with a decidedly stronger tendency to anterior dilatation of 
the prothoi’ax. The head is more or less sulcate longitudinally, 
but the sulcus in many examples becomes feeble or even disappears 
before the front margin. The length of the prothorax down its 
middle is slightly more than its width across the base ; the curve 
of its sides varies, being generally slight in the males and strong in 
the females in such fashion that in some examples of the latter the 
segment is wider just in front of the middle than its length down 
the middle ; the disc is canaliculate (in some examples more 
strongly than in others), the channel usually abbreviated at both 
ends ; the hind angles are sharp, more or less directed outward 
(most strongly so in the large females as a rule). The elytra are 
striated and the interstices are usually decidedly convex and 
closely and finely, but yet a little rugosely, punctured (the punc- 
tures a good deal I’un together by very fine transverse wrinkles) ; 
the striag hardly distinctly punctured except near the shoulders and 
near the apex ; in the largest females the interstices are usually 
