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Apotomus Australis: length 12’; a little smaller than 
Rujus, but very much of the same form, a little less 
elongated ; the sulcate on the thorax perhaps rather deeper ; 
of a reddish brown, with the elytra of a dark colour, often 
almost black; they are very strongly punctato-striated and 
pubescent ; parts of the mouth, antennz and legs of a yellow 
brownish colour. 
Rather common round Melbourne. 
Note.—In some specimens the base of the elytra is of a 
lighter colour. 
I have received from Rockhampton several specimens of 
this same insect. 
Apotomus Nove Hollandic : length 12’; very much like 
the precedent, but much more elongated ; elytra longer ; 
the entire insect is of a light brown with the legs yellow. 
The punctures of the striz on the elytra not so deep. 
Rockhampton. 
Morionide. 
This family seems to be extensively represented in Aus- 
tralia. I cannot help thinking that Mazareus, for all it has 
not the antenne of Morionide, would be better placed here 
than anywhere else. 
HYPERION. 
The gigantic insect, which alone constitutes till this day 
this genus, was first described by Schrebers in the “ Trans- 
actions of the Linnean Society ” under the name of Scarites 
Schrobert. Mr. Boisduval proposed most properly to separate 
it from the latter genus, and gave this new generic 
division the name of Heteroscelis; but this designation having 
already been applied to a genus of Hemiptera, I proposed 
(“ Natural History of the Articulated Animals”) to change 
it to Hyperion. Since then Mr. Westwood, in his “ Arcana 
Entom.,’ has proposed the name of Campylocnemis. 
Mr. Lacordaire, in his genera, has adopted this last name, 
Hyperion being, he says, too near Hyphereon—a name 
given by Macleay to a genus of Carabide, that nobody 
knows anything about. It is evident that a name can- 
not be altered because it looks rather like another (for all it 
is pronounced quite differently), and so my name being the 
oldest has to be maintained. 
This magnificent insect is very rarely met with ; it lives 
in families of twelve to fifteen individuals. One of these 
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