19 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA— NOTES AND NEW SPECIES NO. iii. By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. (Ten Text-fignres. ) [Read 26th March, 1924.] The following notes are the outcome of my recent visit to the British Museum of Natural History and to the Hope Museum. There are added descriptions of two new genera of Buprestidae, with two and three new species respectively; two new genera of Tenebrionidae, of which one belongs to a subfamily (Heterotarsinae) not hitherto recorded from Australia and which is apparently closely allied to a North American genus; and a few new species that recent investigations show to be undescribed. BUPRESTIDAE. My revision of the genus Stigmodera (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aus., 1916) sliould be corrected as follows :■ — Stigmodera cyaniventris Kerr. = S. variabilis Don. jS. viridicincta Waterh. var. =^ S. carpentariae Blkb. The latter species was omitted from my list of synonyms by accident. Black-burn's type is almost identical with the specimen marked viridicincta var. by Waterhouse, the type itself being an unusual form of a fairly common North Queensland species. S. major Waterh. is a variety of puhicolUs Waterh., as stated by its author, and not as in my tabulation under parryi Hope. S. aeneicornis Saund. is a distinct species not sjmonymous with rotundata Saund., and should stand in my table near disjecta Kerr. (No. 215). ^S*. deleta Kerr, is a distinct species, not a variety of mastersi Macl. ; Kerre-mans labelled every example of a species he described as "type" and, in some eases, two different species are marked with identical labels, e.g., of two specimens labelled "inermis Kerr, type," one is a distincta Saund, the other is nova Kerr.). S. palUdipennis Blackb. is a small example of aurieollis Thorns. S. addenda Kerr. {nom. praeocc. by Thomson) = straminea Macl. — a common form of this species without the lateral maculae; later also described by Thery as S. johannae. S. septemgwttata Waterh. = tyrrhena Blackb., a variable species in which the fascia,e are often broken up into spots. (Types compared). Waterhouse's name has priority. S. anchoralis C. and G. = agrestis Kerr. S. rubriventris Blackb. — The type of this was described from Western Aus-tralia and is not the species usually labelled in Australian collections under that
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