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Ectroma elusive; and, tlioug-h the species on which Blackburn founded this genus 

 (genotype, Lehia civica Newm.), might be put in Chaudoir's suggested genus 

 Lebiomorpha (genotype, L. civicn Newm.), as has been done by me in the past, it 

 now seems better to follow Macleay and refer them to Sarothrocrepis, sensu lato. 



Table of Tasmanian species. 



1 (10) Fourth joint of all tarsi bilobed. 



2 (7) Size large. Length. 7.o mm., or over. 



3 (6) Prothorax testaceous. 



4 (5) Elytra with interstices 6 — 8 infuscate to base, base also infuscate. 



Length, 9 — 10 mm at/icftrNevim. 



5 (4) Elytra testaceous on basal third, and with a large, ante-apical, black 



area. Length, 7.5 — 8 mm posticalis Guar. 



6 (3) Prothorax and elytra piceous (or black) with wide, testaceous, latere.! 



margins. Length, 7 — 8 mm /uc/i/osn ^ewm 



7 (2) Size small, less than 6 mm. in length. 



S (9) Head testaceous, elytra black with post-basal plagae, lateral margins, 

 and apex testaceous benefica Newm. 



9 (8) Head and prothorax black, elytra black with testaceous post-basal 

 plagae r/z'/ra Newm. 



10 (1) Tarsi with fourth ioint bilobed on four anterior tarsi, simple on pos- 



terior tarsi. 



11 (12) Elytra testaceous, four basal black spots and a wide, post-median, 



black area extending across elytra — only lateral border and inflexed 

 margins excepted grm<is Blackb. 



12 (11) Elytra testaceous, two basal black spots on fourth and fifth interstices, 



and a narrow irregular black fascia above apical declivity (its 

 anterior margin deeply emarginate) . (Sometimes the fascia con- 

 tinuous across six inner interstices, sometimes it is obsolete on fifth 

 interstice and its usual apex appears as a small black spot just 

 before the middle of the length of the sixth interstice — typical form.) 



inquinala Erichs. 

 Sarothrocrepis calida Newman. 



(= S. !nfnscata Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1916, p. 206.) 

 Mr. H. E. Andrewes, to whom I sent specimens, has compared S. infuscata 

 with the type of Lebia calida, in the British Museum, and has informed me that it 

 is the same species. I believe it is distinct from S. corticalis Fabr. 



Hab. — Launceston, Brighton. St. Patrick's River, Mole Creek (Simson, No. 

 ■2486) ; Burnie, Sheffield (Carter and Lea). Also found in the mountains of S.E. 

 Australia. 



Sarothroorepis posticalis Guerin. 



[= S. suavis Sloane (non Blackburn), Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1917, 



p. 423.] 



I formerly took this species for S. suavis Blackb., from which it differs by the 

 sharply marked basal angles of the prothorax. Testaceous, with a large black 

 patch on the apical half of the elytra. Length, 7.5 — 8 mm. 



Hah. — Tyannceston, Brighton. Beaconsfield, West Taniar (Simson No. 267.5). 

 Also found in the mountains of S.E. Australia. 



Sarothrocrepis luctuosa Newman. 

 Hah. — Brighton (Simson, No. 2676). Widely spread in the mountains of y^^\ C 

 South-eastern Australia. /v ^ _„ 



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