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Notes on Tenebrionid/e in the South Australian 

 Museum, Collected by Mr. a. m. Lea, 1911-12, 

 with Descriptions of New Species. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S., Corresponding Member. 



[Read May 14, 1914.] 



I have received from the South Australian Museum, the 

 Tenebrionidce, captured by Mr. A. M. Lea on his Queensland 

 trip, for determination. The prolificacy of the country in 

 Coleoptera and the energy of the collector are shown by the 

 numbers sent in a single family, a total of 145 species, 

 including sixteen new species and two new genera ; and this 

 must be taken in conjunction with the fact that an old 

 collector like Mr. Lea would discard the commoner insects, 

 so that there has evidently been no attempt to make a record 

 number. The following is a list of Tenebrionidw, and the 

 localities of capture. 



M. = Mittagong, N.S.W. ; S. = Sydney; C. = Cairns district 

 and Kuranda ; T. = Mount Tambourine, Q. 



Docalis funerosa, Hope, M. and T. Gcediomorpha hetero- 

 mera, King, S. Gonocephalum carpentarice, Blackb., Towns- 

 ville and Hughenden, Q. G. costatum, n. sp., C. G. torridum, 

 Champ., C. G. walkeri, Champ., C. Mesomorphus leai, 

 n. sp., Hughenden, Q. Gestrinus trivialis, Erichs., C. and 

 Gladstone. C . piceitcwsis, Hope( 1),C Grypticus submaculatus, 

 Champ. ( ?), C. Scymena variabilis, Pasc, S. Mychestes 

 congestus, Pasc, Coff Harbour. M. lignarius, Pasc, C. 

 M. masteisi, Macl., T. Orcopagia regularis, n. sp. , C. Dip- 

 stxconia pyritosa, Pasc, M. Byrsax egenus, Pasc. ( ?), C. 

 Trichulodes punctatus, n. g. and n. sp., C. Typliobia fidiginea, 

 Pasc, T. and C. Platydema aries, Pasc, C. P. limacella, 

 Pasc, C. P. tetraspilota, Hope, C. and T. P. victorice, 

 Blackb., M. and S. Spdoscapha thalloides, Pasc, T. 

 Ceropria peregrina, Pasc, T. and C. Liochrodes suturalis, 

 Westw. (?), C. Scotoderttrs (Dechius) aphodioides, Pasc, T. 

 Uloma ( ActhosusJ consentanea, Perr., C. U. brunnea, 

 Cart., M. U . laticornis, Pasc, Lawson, N.S.W. U . minuta, 

 Cart., C. U. ovalis, Perr. (?), C. and T. U. pygmcea, n. sp., 

 C. U. ivestwoodi, Pasc, C. Platycdibe bicolor, n. sp., T. 

 P. brevis, Cart., T. Encyalesthus tuberculiceps, n. sp., C. 

 and T. Gnathocerus cornutus, Fab., C. Tribolium ferru- 

 gineum, Fab., C. Heterochira nitida, Cart., C. Encara 



