638 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



be beaten from the drying leaves of freshly felled Eucalyptus. 

 I have specimens in which the rostrum is entirely black, and 

 others in which there is scarcely a tinge of piceous. 



H. CENTRALIS, Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5351. Hah. — South 

 Australia. 



H. MAiALis, Pasc; I.e. No. 5365. Hah. — New South Wales 

 (widely distributed). 



H. viciNUS, Chev.; I.e. No. 5387. Hah. — Tamworth, Forest 

 Reefs, Sydney. 



SiGASTUS FASCicuLARis, Pasc; l.c. No. 5389. Hah. — Swan 

 River. 



Zeopus storeoides, Pasc; l.c. No. 5347. f/ab.— ^wan River. 



Subfamily BARIDIIDES. 

 P s A L D u s, Pascoe (1870). 



I have no doubt whatever but that this genus is identical with 

 N utiomimetes, Wollaston, 1873 ; and moreover that N. Pascoei, 

 Woll., is a synonym of P. liosomoides, Pasc. I have both species 

 described by Pascoe.* In a footnote to P. ammodytes, Pascoe 

 remarks that Aphela and Psaldusj should form a subfamily near 

 the Moll/tides. I cannot see that they are very close to that sub- 

 family; they appear to me to be intermediate in position between 

 the Baridiides and Cosaonides, and that Wollaston in referring 

 Notiomimetes to the latter subfamily was not very wide of the 

 mark. Psaldus and Aphela are closely allied (if not identical, 

 and the species have exactly the same habits ; A. algarutn is 

 certainly closer to P. liosomoides than it is to ^. helopoides. 



* It appears to me that P. ammodytes is but a feeble variety of P. lioso- 

 moide'i. I have taken specimens at King George's Sound and Champion 

 Bay (the original localities), and they appear to be very variable in regard to 

 colour and size. In the Champion Bay specimens [ammodytes) the rostral 

 and abdominal punctures appear to be more feeble than in those from the 

 Sound, but I can detect no other structural differences. 



t Together with Emphyastes, a genus not represented in Australia, and 

 unknown to me. 



