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As far as I know the following names are all that have 

 been given to species of Neospades, viz.: — (Buprestis) 

 cruciatus, Fab.; (Corcebus) chrysopygius, Germ.; (Cisseis) 

 apicalis, Macl. ; (Cisseis) dimidiata, Macl. ; (Cisseis) cupri- 

 fera, Gestro ; N. lateralis, Blackb., and simplex, Blackb.; 

 (Cisseis) splendida, Kerr. 



It may be mentioned here that the claws of Ethon are 

 like those of Neospades, but the tarsi of the former are longer 

 and not, or but little, compressed, resembling those of 



GERMARICA. 



Mr. Carter has stated (Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1909, 

 p. 122) of my G. casuarince: — "I have little doubt but that 

 this is the insect described as Aphanisticus liliputanus, 

 Thorns., but the entirely misleading and inadequate descrip- 

 tion is a strong justification for Mr. Blackburn's re- 

 description." If Mr. Carter has compared an authentic speci- 

 men of G. casuarince with Thomson's type, I suppose there is 

 nothing more to be said in the matter; but if not it may 

 be noted that Thomson's description is misleading indeed if 

 it was founded on a specimen of the insect I described. 

 Thomson's type was from New South Wales (mine from South 

 Australia), has elytra at apex "subtruncata et biacuta" (the 

 elytra of my species are rounded at the apex), and is scarcely 

 more than half the size of G. casuarince; Thomson calls it 

 "the smallest Buprestid known to us." I may add that I 

 have numerous specimens of a Germarica from New South 

 Wales of the size that Thomson attributes to liliputanus (with 

 elytra, however, not at the apex agreeing with Thomson's 

 description), and differing from casuarince by, inter alia, its 

 notably narrower and more elongate form. 



ELATERID^E. 



PARACREPIDOMENUS. 



In characterizing this genus Dr. Schwartz does not refer 

 to the sexual characters of its species, nor does he mention 

 the sex of the two species he describes, which are both known 

 to me as occurring on the Dividing Range of Victoria. The 

 sexes do not present any very noticeable external distinctions 

 except in the antennae, which are shorter in the female 

 (equalling in length about the first nine joints of those of 

 the male in P. fasciculatus and in P. linearis about the first 

 ten joints), and in the prothorax, which is (conspicuously in 

 fasciculatus, less so in linearis) less sinuate on the sides, 

 and carrying its width further forwards towards the apex. 

 The tumidity and coarse sculpture of the apical ventral seg- 



