THE INSECTS OF MACQUARIE ISLAND—TILLYARD—BRUES—LEA. 19 
Islarid: 3.7.12. In 70 per cent. alcohol.’?. Others were in an unnumbered tube, 
inside which was the following note on a slip of paper :—‘ Under rotting bones. 
‘Macquarie. Nov., 1913. H.H.” 
A number of these were sent to Mr. A. M. Lea, the well-known Coleopterist of 
the South Australian Museum, who described the imago as a new species of Homalium. 
Genus: HOMALIUM. 
HoMALIUM VARIIPENNE 1.8p. Lea. 
(Text-figs. 11, 12.) 
(Description of species in Appendix B, p. 29.) 
Ty pe.—Holotype in Australian Museum, Sydney, mounted on card, together 
with a paratype imago mounted on its back, and a larva also on same card; No. 
AAKE, 14. Co-type and a number of larve in tube No. Co. 1, in 70 per cent. alcohol, 
‘also in Australian Museum. Another paratype in South Australian Museum, No. 
1, 7957. 
Fig. 11.—Homalium variipenne n.sp. Lea. 
(a) Head of a cleared specimen, showing antenna (that of left side omitted), mouth-parts and tentorium, (b) Elytron, 
viewed from the inside. (c) Hind wing. (d) Hind leg. (All x 463.) 
_ As Mr. Lea’s description is not accompanied by any figures, I give, in Text-fig. 
11, figures of the head, elytron, hind wing, and hind leg, all much magnified, and drawn 
from a cleared and mounted specimen, one of two which I have retained in my collection. 
