Notes on Australian Coleoptera. |) 
Art. XV.—WNotes on Australian Coleoptera. By Count 
F. De CastTELnau. 
PART II. 
Second Family—CA RABID. 
This great family is largely represented in Australia, and 
the proportion of species found on this continent is at least 
equal to the number of its representatives in the Huropean 
fauna. I will present ina summary way the catalogue of the 
known sorts, and describe briefly those much more numerous 
that are still new to science; in this paper, however, I shall 
only be able to review the first tribes of the family. 
Pamboride. 
The genus PaAmBorvs forms most entirely this tribe, and 
is entirely Australian. Mr. Gory gave in 1836, in Guerin’s 
Magasin de Zoologie, a monograph of these insects, in which 
he describes five sorts—A lternans, Morbillosus, Guerint, Viridis, 
and Hlongatus. The first had previously been described by 
Latreille, and the two following by Boisduval in his 
“Fauna of Australia.” JI have since then described in my 
“ Ktudes Entomologiques” a sixth sort, under the name 
of Cunninghamii, from the Northern territory. 
I have endeavoured, butin vain, to find permanent characters 
separating A lternans from Morbillosus, and I believe them to be 
mere varieties one of the other. Gwerint presents a particu- 
lar appearance, which caused Mr. Hope to propose for it the 
genus Callimosoma, but this has not been adopted by subse- 
quent authors. Mr. Masters has lately found in consider- 
able numbers, in the Pine Mountains of Queensland, an 
insect differing only from Guerint by the absence of the 
golden margin of the elytra; but it appears to be a simple 
variety of it. In some specimens the thorax is much broader 
than in others. No sorts of Pamborus have yet been found 
in Victoria, but they appear to be rather common in the 
northern parts of New South Wales and in Queensland. 
Viridis is found on the Clarence River; it is easily identified 
by its green colour, and the lateral coste of its elytra being 
entire. It is generally smaller than Alternans, but I have 
seen specimens from Brisbane as large as those of this 
species. 
I have only two new sorts of Pamborus to record here. 
