232 Mr. G. C. Cliampion on the Heteromerous Coleoptera 
Hah. Tasmania — Mount Wellington, Hobart, and 
Mount Arthur, near Launceston. 
Four specimens. This insect, to judge from the 
description, has the elytra marked somewhat as in the 
Chilian Dentipalpus pictus, Philippi. It differs from all 
the known species of Dircsea in its peculiar coloration. 
In the form of the maxillary palpi, tibial spurs, elytral 
suture, sterna, etc., it agrees with Dircsea. Under bark 
of Eucalyptus coccifera on Mount Wellington, at an 
elevation of 4,000 feet ; and under bark of " sassafras 
(Atherosperma moschatum) on Mount Arthur, at about 
2,000 feet (Walker). 
Talayra, n. gen. 
Head vertical, scarcely visible from above, convex, without 
frontal suture ; eyes large, emarginate in front ; maxillary palpi 
strongly serrate — joint 3 acutely triangular, 4 lunate, 5 very large 
and. cultriform, its apical side very much longer than the outer 
side ; antennae elongate, filiform, joint 2 very short, 3-11 elongate, 
7-11 subequal, slightly shorter than those preceding. Pro thorax 
convex, declivous at the sides ; the marginal carina extending to 
the middle forwards, obliterated in front ; the base feebly bisinu- 
ate, the hind angles subrectangular. Elytra elongate, the width 
of the prothorax, parallel to the middle and narrowing thence to 
the apex. Anterior coxae contiguous behind, separated in front 
by the broadly triangular prosternum ; the cavities closed ex- 
ternally, open behind ; the prosternum not separated from the 
propleura by a distinct suture. Intermediate coxae divided by a 
very narrow process of the mesosternura ; the cavities open ex- 
ternally, the trochantin visible. Metasternum elongate, sulcate 
down the middle from a little below the base to the apex, triangu- 
larly produced behind. Legs elongate. Intermediate and hind 
tibiae elongate, deeply transversely notched along their outer edge ; 
the spurs of the intermediate pair long and unequal in length, 
those of the hind pair very elongate (as in Orchesia)^ half the 
length of the first joint of the hind tarsi, and almost equal in 
length, all of them pectinate beneath. Anterior and intermediate 
tarsi with the fourth joint feebly bi-lobed, the anterior pair widened 
in the male ; the first joint of the hind tarsi very elongate, nearly 
as long as the following joints united, Body elongate, convex, 
attenuate behind. 
In the subequal and very elongate hind tibial spurs 
this genus resembles Orchesia, but differs from it in 
having the anterior coxae contiguous behind, the hind 
