214 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Goleoptera 
considerable number of species have been described, 
chiefly from New South Wales, South Australia, and 
Queensland; but as many of Mr. Walker's insects are 
from very different localities, from Western or 
North Western Australia, or Tasmania, it is not to be 
wondered at that most of them are new ; twenty-four 
species (eighteen new), belonging to five genera (one 
new), are enumerated. The Mordellidae, also, are 
numerous in Australia, but except for some few species 
described by Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse in our Trans- 
actions for 1878, very few are named as yet ; thirteen 
species of Mordella (six new), and three of Mordelli- 
stena are now recorded, the last-mentioned genus being, 
as noted above, an addition to the Australian list. The 
Rhipidophorid88 are represented by two species, both of 
which appear to belong to known forms. The Meloidae 
furnish one species, belonging to the remarkable genus 
Sitarida, White (figured in Stoke's Discoveries in 
Australia) ; it is described as new. As in the Tene- 
brionidas, a large proportion of the novelties are from 
Tasmania. The decaying Eucalypti in that island 
appear to be especially productive in Melandryidae, and 
it seems an extraordinary fact that there should be 
only one known Australian member of the family^ and 
that from Queensland. The out-of-the-way arid islands 
on the West Coast visited by the " Penguin furnished 
several interesting novelties in the Anthicidae, and this 
was also the case with the Tenebrionidge. As an 
interesting fact in geographical distribution, it may 
be noted that the Australian Lagrioida is more 
nearly allied to the Chilian species than to the one 
inhabiting New Zealand. One of the species of 
Scraptia, a genus containing exceedingly delicate 
and fragile insects, is extremely like a Mediterranean 
form. 
As before, I am indebted to the Eev. T. Blackburn 
for his assistance in the preparation of this paper. 
CISTELID^. 
Apellatus. 
Apellatus, Pascoe, Journ. Ent., ii., p. 45 (1863). 
The following species from Tasmania agrees very 
well with Pascoe's definition of this genus^ except that 
