110 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
of the inferior part of the margin of the elytra, which is not 
yellow but black, and the transversal yellow spot much 
narrower. 
Lebuide. | 
This family is very extensively represented in Australia, 
but the documents I have collected on it not being ready, I 
will reserve them for a future publication. 
Pericalhide. 
This family, as established by Lacordaire, contains a most 
extraordinary assemblage of insects belonging evidently to 
very different groups; Coptodera, Phylophleus, &c., are very 
nearly allied to Lebiide, and I will postpone the study of 
them till I describe the latter. Mormolyce is a gigantic Agra; 
Scopodes cannot be in a natural system far removed from 
filaphrus. I will here mention a true Catascopus, which does 
not seem to have been described. 
Catascopus Chaudoiri: length 10’. This insect is one 
of the largest of the genus; it is more nearly allied to 
Brasihensis than to any other known to me. It 1s 
entirely of a dark green, with the thorax generally a little 
lighter; head large, with two strong longitudinal impres- 
sions between the eyes, and two slight ones further 
backwards; thorax more broad than long, cordiform, 
strongly marginated laterally, with the anterior angles pro- 
truding ; it has a deep longitudinal sulcate on its centre, a 
strong, arched, transverse impression forward and another 
straight behind; elytra long, parallel, depressed, very 
strongly emarginated at their extremity; the upper angle 
of this excavation forming a strong tooth; they are covered 
with deep striz; the interval between the second and 
third marked with three punctiform impressions; a sort of 
carina runs from the humeral angle to the extremity, follow- 
ing at some distance the margin; inferior parts of the body, 
legs, parts of the mouth and antennz black; tarsi covered 
with a brown pubescence. 
Clarence River. i 
The head is sometimes black, and the elytra have, in some 
specimens, a bluish tinge. | 
Pseudomorphidee. 
This most curious family is almost entirely Australian. 
The sorts belonging to it seem to be dispersed all over this 
vast continent. 
