238 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Golecyptera 
acetabula open behind, and it cannot be retained in the 
Lagriid^, the position assigned to it by its authors. Its 
species live at the roots of plants on sandy coasts. 
Lagrioida australis, n. sp. 
Oblong- ovate, narrow, convex, shining, varying in colour from, 
testaceous or ruf o-testaceous to pitchy-brown, thickly clothed with a 
fine decumbent cinereous or yellowish-cinereous pubescence; the legs 
and antennae testaceous ; the entire upper surface densely, finely 
punctate, the punctures on the elytra here and there transversely 
confluent. Antennas not half the length of the body, the apical 
three joints wider than those preceding — 9 triangular, about as 
broad as long, 10 subtransverse, 11 ovate. Prothorax convex, about 
as long as broad ; the sides rounded before the middle and slightly 
converging behind. Elytra about three and one-half times the 
length of the prothorax, oval. Beneath densely, finely punctate ; 
the metasternum deeply longitudinally sulcate in the middle. 
Length 3|-5|, breadth 1-1 1 mm. 
Hah. Tasmania — Sandy Bay, near Hobart, and 
Launceston. 
Numerous examples, varying greatly in size and also 
in colour; some of the specimens are very small, and 
these I take to be the males. I have also received a 
specimen of it from the Rev. T. A. Blackburn, from 
S. Australia. Compared with the two described species 
of the genus, L. ohscurella, Fairm. and Germ. (= rvfula, 
Fairm. and Germ.), from Chili, and L. hrouni, Pasc, from 
New Zealand, the present insect is much more closely 
allied to the Chilian than to the New Zealand form. It 
differs from the first-mentioned in its less elongate shape, 
shorter antennae, more convex thorax, the sides of which 
are more rounded before the middle, and more deeply 
sulcate metasternum ; the punctuation of the upper sur- 
face is precisely similar. L. hrouni has the punctuation 
much coarser and not so close, and the antennae more 
elongate. At roots of grass and herbage on the sand- 
hills, in company with Edylius canescens, Champ. 
(Walker). 
SCRAPTIA. 
Scraptia, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins., ii., p. 199 
(1807); Lacordaire, Gen. Col., v., p. 585. 
This genus has not hitherto been recorded from Aus- 
