84 LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



Closely related to the Xew Zealand Pycnomerus longulus, Sh.,f a species 

 which should be added to the Australian list, as I have seen specimens from 

 the Pine Mountains, Queensland. P. moestus may be known by its more 

 strongly-punctured prothorax, which lacks even a vague discal depression, 

 and its strongly-punctured elytral stria? and raised interstices. 



CUCUJIDJE. 



DEXDBOPHAGrS ATTSTEALIS, EHck. 



Dendroplxagus australis, Erichson ; Olliff, Proc. Linn. Soc. X.SAY., X, p. 

 21S (1SS5). 

 A common and widely-distributed species which is found throughout 

 Australia. 



Ceyptamobpha Desjaedixsii, Gut'r. 



Psammcecus Desjanlhisii, Guerin ; Oiling Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., X, p. 

 220 (1885). 



This species is frequently found on the banana trees, but it is probably an 

 introduced species, as it is almost cosmopolitan in its range, being one of 

 those species which are carried about in articles of commerce. 



LrCAXIDJE. 



*Lampei\ta ixsttlaeis, JIacl. 



Lamprima insularis, Maeleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. X.S.AV, X, p. 137 (1SS5). 



This species appears to be peculiar to the island, where the males are 

 sometimes found in great numbers clinging to the limbs of low-growing shrubs 

 and flying in the sunshine. The females are not nearly so abundant. Both 

 sexes vary greatly in colour, some being almost violet or pale-bluish green, 

 but the commonest form is of the ordinary brassy hue. 



*ElGELES EEGULAEIS, WestlC. 



Figalv.s regularise TTestwood, Ann. Sc. Nat., (2) I, p. 120 (1S34). 



A species of wide distribution on the Australian continent ; also found in 

 New Guinea. 



SCAEAB-EIDJE. 



Aphodius litidis, Oh' i\ 



Aphodius liuidus, Olivier. Ent. I, p. SG, pi. 2b*, fig. 222. 

 This species is cosmopolitan in its range. 



DYXASTID.E. 



Heteeoxychus velgivagus, sp. nov. 



Elongate, dark piceous, shining, moderately convex ; head with two central 

 tubercles; prothorax exceedingly finely and very sparingly punctured ; elytra 

 strongly striate-punctate in the middle ; pygidium irregularly punctured at 

 the base. 



Head narrowed and bisinuate in front, transversely rugulose ; the median 

 carina indistinct, with a strongly-developed tubercle on each side of the 

 middle. Antenna? bright castaneous. Prothorax about one-third broader 

 than long, slightly narrowed in front, finely margined; the anterior angles 

 acute, the posterior rounded. Scutellum triangular, smooth. Elytra with 

 eight rows of large, more or less impressed, punctures, of which the four 

 central rows are abbreviated posteriorly ; the second, fifth, and seventh rows 



t Trans. Eoyal Dubl. Soc, (2) ill, p. 389, pi. 12, fig. 21 (18S6). 



