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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
margins, the apex, and a transverse fascia behind the middle, 
dark fuscous. It is probable that these markings are variable, 
but not, I think, to an extent that would bi’ing any species 
known to me near it. Phoracantha superans (from Tasmania) 
was originally characterized by Mr. Pascoe as having the spinose 
joints of the antennae “ armed with a spine at the apex,” but 
when that gentleman formed the genus Tryphocharia, he placed 
supeians in it, from which it would appear that the original 
description was defective. The sides of the prothorax in this 
insect are said to bear a slender elongate straight spine, and the 
elytra to terminate in two long acute spines, and to be of a pale 
fulvous yellow colour, with the base and margins dark chestnut- 
brown. The description also states that the elytra gradually 
decrease in size and proximity as they approach the apex, but 
this character would appear so improbable that there is doubtless 
some error in the statement which I conjecture should be read as 
applying to the words “punctures on the elytra” accidentally 
omitted. T. Mastersi seems to resemble Odeicahni, but to have 
the apices of its el}i;ra bispinose, the puncturation of the same 
less close, and the prothorax tubercled (not spined) at the sides. 
Tlie following species of Tryphocharia are, 1 believe, correctly 
named in my own collection, and some other collections to which 
I have access. 
T. HAMATA, Newm. 
(longipennis, Hope), said to occur in X. S. Wales, Victoria, 
and Tasmania. !My own specimen is from Western Australia. 
It (i.e., my Western Australian specimen which, if compared with 
the original, might possibly prove distinct, though it agrees very 
well with the description such as it is) is of a rather dark brown 
colour with an ob.scure blackish fascia considerably in front of the 
middle of the elytra, — and the front of the lateral margins, the 
hinder half of the sutui'e, and a kind of vitta occupying the hinder 
half of the disc of the same, — obscurely darker than the general 
colour, the interstices of the punctures (especially in a longitudinal 
direction) obscurely yellowish. The prothorax and bi’east are a 
