BY H. J. CARTER. 145 



3. Head of male horned (1) Gnathocerus Thun. 



4(11) Head of male withe ml horns. 

 «)(7) Elytra striate-punctate. 



6. Antennal club 4-jointed (1) Tribolium Muls. 



7. Antennal club 1-jointed (3) Micruloma, n.g. 



8. Elytra seriate-punctate, antennal club 3- jointed .. , (3) Mk'ROCILIBE, n.g. 

 9(11) Elytra irregularly punctate. 



11). Form cylindric, antennal club 4-jointed 



(2) Lyphia Muls.; Lindia Blackb. 



11. Form depressed, antennal club 3-jointed (3) MESOTRETIS Bates. 



12(14) Tibia; (front and mid at least) denticulate. 



13. Form depressed, antennal club 4-jointed (3) Platyctlibe Cart. 



14. Form convex, antennal club 2- or 3-jointed ... (3) Brachycilibe Cart. 

 1.3(27) Antennae not clavate (joints gradually enlarged). 



16(22) Tibia- not denticulate on outside edge. 



17. Head of male horned (at least in S. hololeptoides Cast.) 



(1) SlTOPHAGUS Muls. 



18(22) Head of male without horns. 

 19(21) Elytra striate-punctate. 



20. Form moderately convex, antennae short (1) Palorus Muls. 



21. Form depressed, antenna; long (3) Ulo.moides Blackb. 



22. Elytra irregularly punctate... (2) HypophjUEUS F.; Corticeus Crotch. 

 23(27) Tibia; denticulate (except in Uloma torrida Cart.). 



24(2(5) Species with eyes. 



2.">. Males with depression on prothorax, tibiae enlarged at apex 



(2) Uloma Cast.; Acrnosus Pasc. 



2H. Without sexual distinction on prothorax, tibiae little enlarged at apex. 



(1) Alphitobius Steph. ; (3) Typhluloma Lea. 



27. Blind. 



(1) Genera containing cosmopolitan species — mostly grain pests. 



(2) < tenera containing species from every continent (Lyphia not recorded 

 from America). 



(3) Genera recorded only from Australia. Norfolk Island, or Lord Howe 

 Island. 



S y n o n y m y : Uloma Casteln. = Acthosus Pasc. — This synon- 

 ymy was suggested by Blackburn (Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 

 1894, p. 219), and I entirely concur. 



SitophagnH (Ipsaphes) nitidulus Mad. After an examination 

 of the type in the Australian Museum (so far as is possible with 

 a carded specimen in which the legs are scarcely visible), I have 

 little doubt that it belongs to the Cucujidse, probably to the 

 genus Platisus. Jt seems to have been placed amongst the Tene- 



