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Notes on Some miscellaneous Coleoptera, 

 with Descriptions of New Species. 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 



[Contribution from the South Australian Museum.] 



[Read October 8, 1914.] 



Plate XVI. 



The South Australian Museum having acquired the col- 

 lection of Coleoptera formed by the late Rev. T. Blackburn, 

 with the exception of the majority of his types/ 1 ) Adelaide 

 entomologists are placed in an exceptionally favourable con- 

 dition for the rapid and accurate determination of specimens 

 of that immense Order. For several years prior to his 

 decease he had practically confined his descriptive work to the 

 Scarabceidce, but his general collection was steadily on the 

 increase, and contained an enormous number of specimens 

 of many other families. The Museum also has had enormous 

 recent additions from other sources, and before-liand had a 

 rather fine collection, so that many undescribed species are 

 available. I purpose submitting to the Society such of these 

 as I can find time to ivork up ; with comments on previously- 

 described species where such seem desirable. 



PSELAPHID^E. 



Palimbolus femoralis, Lea. 



The type of this species was immature. A specimen from 

 the Rev. T. Blackburn's collection, from the Victorian Alps, 

 is evidently normally coloured. It is reddish-castaneous, with 

 the abdomen somewhat darker, its head and prothorax are 

 almost black, and the base and suture cf its elytra are stained 

 with piceous. The hairs composing its femoral fascicles are 

 matted together, so that each of these appears as a thin 

 curved extension of the femoral tooth. 



In general appearance it is very close to victorice, but the 

 male characters are very different. 



(1) There are, however, immense numbers of co-types (marked 

 as such) in the collection, and for all practical purposes these are 

 as useful as the types. 



