303 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. Part VII. In the present memoir I offer to the Linnean Society descrip-tions of a number of new species that have been sent to me for identification by various correspondents, together (in some instances) with allied forms in my own collection which it seems desirable to deal with at the same time. In dealing with the smaller Gurculionidoe there is, I fear, some inevitable risk of occasionally clashing with the work already done by Mr, Pascoe in England. Foreseeing this I sent home to that gentleman some considerable time ago a collection of specimens,~after having procured his consent, — with the request that he would look at them and return a number of examples that I specified with any information that he could supply. In due course these examples came back to me, but unfortunately with the informa-tion that only two of them were known to Mr. Pascoe, and without any suggestions such as I had hoped for as to the relation of the remainder to the genera that Mr. Pascoe had characterised. I have thus been thrown upon the study of Mr. Pascoe's memoirs as the only source of information, and if an occasional error (apportioning species to genera in which a comparison with types would show they cannot stand) should creep into my work, I am obliged to say, " there is no help for it." However, if I have erred it is on the side of caution, for where a species possesses the characters assigned by Mr. Pascoe to any genus I have placed it therein (stating the reasons for any doubt I may have in doing so) instead of making a new genus, in all cases where there is
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