238 XOTES ON' SOME AUSTRALIAN TEXEBRIOXIDAE, 



Leptogaatrtis, the first joint is shorter than the last, while in Licinoma and Bry- 

 copia the first joint is either greater or (in a tew cases) of e<|ual length to the 

 claw joint. The leulpture of Daedrosis is generally coarse, with more or leiis 

 pilose clothing, while the species of Licinoma are generally glabrous, with fine 

 sculpture. Brycopia is distinguished from both Daedrosis and Licinoma by the 

 round (as seen from above) and generally prominent eyes, the prothorax is not 

 emarginate at apex, and the species are generally smaller, and of shorter iorm. 

 The sculpture is generally coarse (except in the femorata, minor group), and the 

 surface glabrous, or pilose; the apical joint of the antennae is of moderate size, 

 the other joints in general more or less moniliform. In this difficult group of 

 genera there are cases where some compromise is necessary," at least so far as the 

 secondary characters, referred to above, go, as the jireferable alternative to the 

 erection of nev.' genera on fine distinctions. 



The following synonymy of the group has been investigated: — 



Brycopia = Dinoria. 



Brycopia (Dinoria) coelioides Pasc. ^ B. diemeneusis Cart. 



Licinoma nilidn Pasc. = var. Daedrosis victoriae Blackb. 



L. {Daedrosis) monticola Blackb. = L. pinicta-latera Cart. 



L. elata Pasc. = L. violacea Macl. 



In the last case I compared the specimen of elata from the British Museum 

 with specimens labelled elata Pasc, and the type of violacea in the Australian 

 Museum, and note that elata was correctly named and that the type ciolacea is 

 merely a larger specimen of the same species. 



On the Bunya Mountains (S. Queensland) last October, I ttxik 3 examples of 

 a Licinoma which may at present be called L. elata Pasc. var., but which differ 

 from the typical form in the following characters:^ — (1) Antennae and tarsi black 

 (or nearly so) — red in L. elata; (2) sides of prothorax less widened in middle, 

 less abruptly narrowed behind. I bad described this a.s new, but its sculpture and 

 form approach that of elata so closely tliat it is inail\'isat)le to separate it bv 

 name. 



In Daedrosis my tablet must l)e cancelled; eight of the nine L-,pecies recorded 

 there being disposed as follows: — Daedrosis crenato-striata Bates = 7). amhigiM 

 Bates = D. pyymaea Haag. 



D. angulala Cart is a Brycopia, while Lejilof/aslrus was incorrectly placed as 

 synonymous with Daedrosis, and is a distinct genus, differentiated by the complete 

 absence of (1) hind angles of thorax. (2) slioiilders, tlie iia'rowing of both 

 segments in this region causing the "pedunculation" stated by Macleay. Besides 

 the original L. mastersi, my Daedrosis apifurmis and D. hirsiita umst be trans- 

 ferred to Leptoyastrus, and the following new species added, while the species 

 identified by me as Daedrosis monticola Blackb. is described l)elow as TK anten- 

 iialis. Daedrosis interrupta mihi umst be transferred fo Adelium. 



In regard to the Daedrosis synonymy above, there is little doul)t. that tlie fine 

 distinctions made by Bates for "amhiyua" disapiiear in the examination of a 

 long series, tlie Blue Mountains forms being generally darker and larger. The 

 small forms taken on the coast, that I had identified as pyymaea. happened to lie 

 more pilose, but Mr. Blair considers that they are not specifically distinct from 

 the type of crenato-striata. Daedrosis now, therefore, contains two species, the 



•See noto, infra, on /,. triiiicala. 



tTraus. Roy. See. S. Aus., xxxviii.. ISUl. j). :!88. 



