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tarsi somewhat ferruginous, — cremita being a brilliantly coloured 

 and much more nitid insect. In eremita the seriate sculpture of 

 the elytra reaches the actual base without any enfeeblement 

 whatever so that there is no indication of the base of the elytra 

 being more nitid than the rest of the surface, while in modestus 

 on the basal portion of the elytra the seriate sculpture becomes 

 very faint and sparse, so that that region is conspicuously more 

 nitid than the general surface. In eremita the transverse carinse 

 separating fovea from fovea in the series are stronger than in 

 modestus and more elongate (a greater number of them being 

 continuous across several series of foveolse), causing the elytra to 

 appear very manifestly more coarsely rugulose ; and in eremita 

 the whole surface of the head is vaguely uneven, while in 

 modestus the surface of the head is flat with merely a single 

 fovea-like impression between the eyes. 

 S. Australia and Victoria. 



SCROBIGER. 



Chevrolat (Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1874, p. 34) refers Opilo 

 moerens, Westw., to this genus. His statement does not appear 

 to have been founded on an inspection of the type, and I believe 

 it to be erroneous. According to the size given by its author it is 

 a very much smaller insect than any known Scrobiger, and inter 

 alia its pronotum is very differently sculptured from that of 

 other species of that genus and its palpi are all subequal. I 

 presume that Chevrolat's reason for regarding moerens as a 

 Scrobiger is Westwood's calling its elytra in the front part "rude 

 punctato-striata." This phrase, however, is used by Westwood 

 for elytra (e.g.) those of Cleromorpha) which are infinitely less 

 coarsely sculptured than those of Scrobiger. Westwood's locality 

 for moerens is Adelaide, and I think I am fairly well acquainted 

 with the Cleridce of the Adelaide district. I have seen only one 

 Clerid which agrees with Westwood's description, viz., the intro- 

 duced Tarsostenus univittatus, Rossi, and that insect agrees with 

 it very well and occurs near Adelaide. I have no doubt, there- 

 fore, that the name Opilo moerens must be regarded as a 

 synonym of T. univittatus. 



neoscrobiger (gen. nov. Cleridarum). 

 Palporum articulus apicalis securiformis ; caput breve ; labrum 

 transversum antice emarginatum ; antennae modicae (pro- 

 thoracis basin vix superantes), clava sat laxe 3-articulata ; 

 oculi modici, supra inter se distantes, subtiliter granuiati, 

 transversim subreniformes ; prothorax sat elongatus, postice 

 angustum tubuliformis, supra pone apicem transversim 

 sulcatus ; elytra sat elongata, quam trans basin lata plus 

 quam duplo longiora, aequalia, in parte apicali fere dimidia 



