116 



Congeneric with a species I described in Tr.R.S., S.A., 1892, 

 pp. 220-221, but referred to Selenurus subject to the doubt I 

 have already expressed fioe. eii 



Victoria iFernshawi. 



TELEPHORUS. 



T. pulcheUus. Maci. var. ( ■) notophilus. T have before me two 

 specimens belonging to the S.A. Museum, which appear to be a 

 remarkable variety of T. vidchellus. They diner from the type 

 in having a wide very conspicuous and sharply limited yellow 

 fascia on the elytra a little behind the middle. I can. however, 

 rind no other difference. I have seen hundreds of specimens of 

 T. puIcheUus, but never one (except these | in which the elytra 

 were not unicolorous. The specimens before me are from Carrie- 

 ton I South Australia'' and are male and female. 



CLERHXE. 



The Australian Clerida are much in need of revision, such 

 descriptions as have been published being scattered through a 

 great variety of (chiefly non- Australian) works, and many of 

 them still standing as referred to genera with which thev have 

 nothing to do. The following notes are a contribution to the 

 task of reducing them to order. 



I am not aware of the existence of any memoir showing the 

 relation to each other of the various genera among which the 

 Australian Clerida are distributed, except Lacordaire r s i; Genera 

 des Coleopteres," where such of the Australian genera as were 

 known forty-three years ago rind a place among the Clerid genera 

 of the world, and some memoirs by the Rev. R. S. G-orham 

 dealing with such as were known of them in certain groups of 

 the Cleridcp twenty-four years ago. where again they are placed 

 among the Cleridce of the world belonging to those groups. I 

 have, therefore, considered it desirable to provide a tabulated 

 statement of the maracters distinguishing the genera to which 

 the known Australian Clerida can be referred for the use of 

 students in Australia. 



Herr Lohde has recently published a catalogue of the Git 

 of the world, which is of the highest possible value, and includes 

 nearly all the corrections that have been made in the generic 

 position of the Australian species, but as a large part of the 

 erroneous generic determinations of the earlier describers have 

 never been corrected in any published treatise those determina- 

 tions are still, of course, uncorrected in this recent catalogue. 

 As far as possible I have corrected these in the following pages. 



I begin with a tabulation of the characters of the Clerid genera 

 known to occur in Australia, and then furnish more particular 

 notes concerning some of those genera, together with the diag- 



