152 Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 
insect is of a light shiny brown, but this colour may alter in 
more mature specimens. 
Swan River. 
Licinide. 
The only Australian form generally included in this 
family is, till this day, the genus Physolestus, Chaud., which 
is very little known to entomologists, but of which I describe 
here a sort, I believe different from the one on which the 
genus was formed. I also place here the Dicrochile, which have 
till now been put with Anchomenide; the total absence of 
cushions below the anterior tarsi of the male doesnotallowthem 
to remain in that family, and the general form, particularly in 
the larger sorts, evidently brings them near to Licimus. Itis 
by mistake that Mr. Lacordaire (“ Hist. Nat. des Insectes,” vol. - 
1, page 234) says that Rembus is found in Australia. I also 
place near Dicrochile a new form from New Zealand. 
Physolestus Suturalis: length 34’; black, rather brilliant; 
thorax almost square, rather transverse, narrower behind 
than in front, with the sides rounded ; it has a deep, longi- 
tudinal sulcate in the middle, with a strong impression on 
each side near the posterior angles; elytra striated, with a 
rather broad spot extending all along the sutura, but be- 
coming narrower towards the extremity ; mandibule and 
labrum black; palpi, antenne, extreme margin of the thorax, 
legs and lower margin of the elytra yellow. | 
From the Paro River. 
DICROCHILE. 
Two species of this genus are known from New Zealand ; 
Baron Chaudoir has described one Australian sort, under 
the name of Brevicollis, and also, in a most proper way, he 
includes in the genus the Rembus Gory of. Boisduval ; 
the last insect has been lately (“ Trans. Ent. Society of New 
South Wales”) described again. by Mr. MacLeay, under the 
name of Stomatocelus Licinoides. 
Dicrochile Gigas: length 11’; of a shiny black; head 
large, almost round, very much depressed in front; thorax 
short, transverse, very strongly marginated in front, rounded 
with a broad margin laterally ; it has a deep longitudinal 
sulcate in the middle, a strong transverse impression in 
front, and two very deep longitudinal impressions behind ; 
elytra large. compressed, covered with striz, of which the 
sutural one bifurcates towards the scutellum; a line of 
punctiform impressions on the margin of the elytra, more 
particularly on their posterior part. 
