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crebre quam prothorax multo magis grosse punctulatis, 

 costulis obtusis subobsoletis 3 instructis ; pygidio punc- 

 turis minutis confertis et aliis majoribus sat crebris 

 impresso; segmentis ventralibus sat crebre punctulatis; 

 pedibus longie ciliatis, sat crebre rugulose sat grosse 

 punctulatis ; tibiis anticis extus tridentatis ; tarsis 

 anticis quam tibise sat longioribus, posterioribus 4 tibiis 

 sat sequalibus. Long., 11 1. ; lat., 5J 1. 



Easily distinguishable from A. nigricornis and from the 

 species that I regard as tasmanicus by the 3rd joint of its 

 antennae very distinctly longer than the 4th joint (the 4th 

 joint about equals two-thirds of the 3rd). The typical speci- 

 men of this species (I have a second example exactly like it, 

 but badly damaged, and evidently from style of mounting, 

 •etc., a companion specimen) also differs from them by its 

 dark ferruginous — not at all pioeous and scarcely pruinose — 

 body and its clear ferruginous legs and by its evidently longer 

 tarsi. Both examples are males. The Antitrogus which I 

 have mentioned above as taken in numbers by Mr. Griffith 

 agrees with Burmeisteri, so far as I can discover, in all 

 respects except colouring, but its colour is that of the species 

 that I believe to be iasmanicus. The type of Burmeisteri and 

 its companion specimen are from South Australia, but I have 

 lost record of exact locality. I am almost sure, however, that 

 the locality is not near Adelaide. On the whole there seems 

 to me to be a doubt whether the examination of a series of 

 fresh specimens of both sexes coloured like the type may not 

 eventually reveal grounds, for regarding the Henley Beach 

 examples as specifically distinct. 



South Australia. 



„. ELATERID^E. 



CREPIDOMENINI. 



Parablax. 

 Dr. Schwartz (D.E.Z., 1906, p. 368) formed a new genus 

 of the above name for certain species which had previously 

 been attributed to Metablax, among them his M. trisulcatus. 

 Two species (bicolor, Blackb., and quinquesulcatus, Blackb.) 

 which I placed in the allied genus Parasaphes must also be 

 transferred to this new genus Parablax. 



ELATERID^E. 

 PHYSODAOTYLIN1. 



The Physodactylini have been variously treated by 

 authors. Lacordaire placed them, in a family (Cebrionidtsj 

 •distinct from the Elaterida:. Dr. Schwartz, in the "Genera 



