137 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. By H. J. Cartkr, B.A., F.E.S. (Plates iv.-v.) This paper originated from notes on material collected by Mr. A M. Lea and myself in January, 1918, during a visit to the western districts of Tasmania — -especially to Cradle Mountain, Wilmot, Waratah, and Strahan. The new insect life discovered through Mr. Lea's painstaking sifting of moss -especially moss growing on trees, so prolific in those moist regions -demands new generic names for small but interesting members of the fungus-eating Tenebrionidce ( Bolilophagiiue). An examination of the Tenebrionidm and Buprestidce in the fine collection made by the late Mr. Augustus Simson, of Laun-ceston, and acquired by the South Australian Museum, has given me special information on Tasmanian species that seems worth recording. The remainder of the paper deals with miscellaneous material that has either accumulated in my own collection, or has been sent for identification from the National Museum, Melbourne. A table of the genera of the Subfamily Ulomince is included, which may help students to a more ready identification of a difficult and cosmopolitan group of insects, which comprise some notorious grain pests. BUPRESTIDCE. The following list contains the fourteen species of Sliymodera that 1 know to have been taken in Tasmania: the four species marked with an asterisk are found only in Tasmania. S.autstra-lasia C. & G., S. bremei Hope, S. cydtiipes Saund , S. dimidiata Cart, (with its var. leai Cart.), S. erythromelas Boisd., S. jiavo-picta Boisd., *S. insularis Blackb., *S. jubata Blackb., .V. 11
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