506 ON cahabidje from west Australia, 



Notes on some previously described species of Philophloius. 



P. eucalypti, Germ., = P. grandiceps, Chaud. — There seems no 

 room for doubt but that Chaudoir was mistaken in bis identifica- 

 tion of P. eav.calypti, Germ. I concur with the Rev. T. Blackburn 

 in assigning the name P. eucalypti, Germ., to the species which he 

 has redescribed under that name (P.L.S.N.S.W. (2), iv. 1889, p. 

 712); and I believe that the species from Adelaide which Chaudoir 

 described under the name of P. grandiceps is the same species. 



P. laticollis, Blkb., is so closely allied to P. eucalypti, Germ., 

 that the differences do not readily lend themselves to tabulation. 



P. ornatus, Blkb., is allied to P. eucalypti, Germ. ; it is 

 unknown to me in nature. 



P. bruniiipennis, Macl., is unknown to me in nature; the 

 description is so slight that it could only be identified by 

 comparison with the type, or by the inspection of specimens from 

 Gayndah. 



P. fusciperinis. Germ. — There appears to me to be little doubt 

 but that this species is synonymous with either /'*. planus, Newm., 

 or P. unicolor, Chaud. ; after a careful comparison of the 

 unicolorous species in my possession I arrive at the conclusion 

 that it is more likely to be identical with P. unicolor than with 

 P. planus, but having only one specimen of /-". luiicolor, and that 

 discoloured by age, and being ignorant of the range of the species, 

 I hesitate to place P. ttnicolor under P. fuscipenais as a synonym. 

 With a good series of specimens of P. planus and P. unicolor before 

 one I believe the identity of P . fuscipennis could be established 

 from Germar's description, the choice of which species it is being 

 reduced to the two species mentioned above, with a balance of 

 opinion in favour of its being P. unicolor."^ 



P. unicolor, Chaud. — The differences between P. uuicolor and 

 P. planus are not readily tabulated, but it can be easily identified 

 from Chaudoir's comparison of it with P. planus if both species 

 are before one. 



* Vide Rev. T. Blackburn's note on P.fn.scipennis, P.L.S.N.S.W. (2), iv. 

 1889, p. 714. 



