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or less normal and therefore this wing-character cannot be considered of generic 

 value. 



Phycus ?? BASiPUNCTATus Walker. 



Xylophagus basipunctatus, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iv., 1857, p. 

 121. — Erinna basipunctata, Kertesz, Cat. Dipt., iii., 1908, p. 135. 



Affinities. — This outstanding description evidently belongs to the Therevidae. 

 The antennae are described as having the second joint very short, the third 

 lanceolate and shorter than the first; these characters suggest the genus Plujciw^. 



The species has not been recognised in the collections and Kertesz left the 

 reference in the family Erinnidae under the genus Erinna which equals the 

 genus Xi/lophagiis of other authors. 



Genus Platycarenum Krober. 



Type, P. porrectifrons Krober (= quinquevittata Macquart). Cape York. 

 Note. — The produced head of the species placed in this genus will distin- 

 guish it from those in the genus AnabarrhynchuJS. 



Platycarenum QuiNQUEViTTiVXA Macquart. 



Therei-a quinqrievittata Macquart, Dipt. E.xot., suppl. 2, 1847, p. 50. — Thereva 

 arida Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., iv., 1857, p. 133.— P/att/corenum por- 

 rectifrons Krober, Ent. Mitt., i., 1912, p. 244 (Text-fig.)— Anobarrftyncftiis pal- 

 lidus White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1915, p. 39 (Text-fig. 21). 



Synonymy. — The above descriptions undoubtedly belong to the same species 

 which is widely distributed on the eastern coast of Australia and wliich fre- 

 quents sand-dunes. 



Note. — White's figure does not resemble the shape of the head and antennae 

 in the least. The black spots on the front vary considerably in size and shape. 



i/(j6.^Ta.smania. New South Wales and Queensland. 



Anabarrhynchus rufipes Macquart. 



Anaharrhynchus rufipes, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl, 4, 1850, p. 99, pi. 

 ix., fig. 11; White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1915, p. 47; Hardy, Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Tasm., 1916, p. 207.— 4. terrenus var.. White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1915, p. 45. 



Synonymy.— As suggested by White, his coastal variety of A. terrenus is 

 not identical with the tji)ical form from the bushlands. From series collected 

 on coastal sand-dunes at Bellerive, near Hobart, it is found that there are 

 grades between the typical species of A. rufipes, as identified by myself, and the 

 variation described by White under A. terremis. 



ANABARRHYNCHU.S TERRENUS White. 



Anabarrhynchus terrenus. White (exclusive of variety), Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 TasHQ., 1915, p. 45. 



Synonymy.— As already stated above, the typical form of this species which 

 occurs in the bush lands is distinct from the species included under this name 

 as a variety. This second species is referred to A. rufipes Macquart, and it 

 seems probable that the first, which is the typical species, was previously described 

 by Macquart (1846, p. 104) under the name Thereva hyalipeimis. 



