BY H. J. CARTER. " 307 



Elytra of same width as prothorax at base, narrowing from behind shoulders 

 to the apex, each elytron separately rounded behind; margins entire, surface 

 finely rugose-punctate, feebly pilose at sides only; underside finely punctate, each 

 puncture giving rise to a short golden l)ristle besides the lateral patches of longer 

 haii-s. Dimensions : 6-7 x 1.6-2 mm. 



Hah. — Barossa, South Australia (K. J. Burton) and Mount Tambourine, 

 Queensland (Mr. Relton). 



Two examples from Mr. Burton — the types — are rather more robust than a 

 pair lately received from the Relton bequest to the Queensland Museum, but are 

 clearly conspeciflc. The species can be readily separated from all so far described 

 by the curiously transversely divided prothorax. Types in Coll. Carter. 



TENEBRIONIDAE. 



Synonymy. 



Duealis funerosus Hope = D. maculatus Blackb. Mi\ Blair has confirmed 

 my suspicion of this by a comparison of the types. 



Sobas (Trigonotarsiis) australis Hope. Specimens identical with those taken 

 at Roebuck Bay (W.A.) by Commander J. J. Walker and determined by Mr. G. 

 C. Champion a.s Pseuclocaedius squamosiis Blackb. are now found, by comparing 

 the types, to be conspeciflc with Sobas australis. Mr. Blair, however, considers 

 that this is not Ps. squamosus, of which he has sent me an example (compared 

 with type) that is a little smaller and with fewer and more irregular setae on 

 the upper surface (also from Roebuck Bay). 1 am unable to make out specific 

 distinctions that cannot be accounted for by individual variation or by abrasion. 

 The synonymy of these two species is thus open to rjuestion. The erroneous 

 labeUing in our Museums of examples of Caediomorpha heteromera King as 

 Sobas amtrulis Hope appears to be traceable to the British Museum, where this 

 confusion seems to have been of long standing. 



Uloma sanguinipes F. = Acthostis laticornis Pasc. d' 1 by comparison 

 = U. depressa Fasc. ? j of types. 



=^ v. consentanea Perroud ( fide Gebien's Catalogue). 



The genus Acthosus, described by Pascoe in 1863 for the reception of A. 

 wsstwoodi, seems to me insuificiently differentiated from Uloma {Vide These 

 Proc, 1919, p. 145). Gebien has, however, described four new species of Act- 

 hosus and nine of Uloma in the "Resultats de I'Expedition scientiflque Neerlan- 

 daise a la Nouvelle-Guinee" (1920), thus recognizing their distinction. 



Diaclina (Heterocheira) nitida Cart. ^ D. immaculata Geb. Specimens 

 were sent to the British Museum, of which Mr. Blair writes : "H. nitida Cart, is 

 a Diaclina (a good genus, not synonymous with Alphitohius) very near, if not a 

 form of D. calliope Chevr. from Gilolo." 



Diaclina Jacq. du Val. — placed by Gebien in the Junk Catalogue as a synonym 

 of Alphitobius — thus enters into Australian lists. Gebien has redescribed D. 

 nitida under the name D. immaculata in his work on Papuan Tenebrionidae 

 quoted above, a synonymy confii-med by Mr. Blair. 



Saragus brunnipes Bois. = 8. macleayi Blackb. See note under iS'. ellip- 

 soides infra. 



Dysarchus Pa.sc. = Saragodinus Bates (fide Mr. K. G. Blair). The geno- 

 types of these genera are evidently closely allied. Mr. Blair writes "D. ode- 

 wahni Pasc. resembles homitti Bates in shape, size, and, to some extent, in sculp- 



