BY ARTHUR JI. LEA. 377 



HISTERIDAE. 



Platysoma coxvbxiusculum Macl. 



There are tliree specimens mounted on a card as types of this species, Init 

 of these only two (those on the front of the card) agree with the description; 

 their elytral striation is much as on P. hipunctatum,, but they are considerably 

 wider, larger, more convex and otherwise different from that species. The other 

 specimen differe from the types in being smaller, narrower, and in having an 

 additional short stria on each elytron, the medio-basal impression on the pronotum 

 absent, etc., and belongs to P. completum. 



I'AiiOJiALUs PLANiCEPS Macl. (formerly Platijsoma) . 



This species is a Paromalus, larger, wider, and more depressed than P. iimhid- 

 catus or P. mctoriae and with considerably larger punctures. 



Tribalus australis Macl. (formerly Abraeus). 

 ( T. leae Lewis . ) 

 The fdur types of T. australis agree perfectly with two eotypes of T. leae. 



NITIDULIDAE. 



Haptoxcura ocularis Fairm. (formerly Epuraea)* 



(Uaptoncus tetragonus Murrayt ; Carpophilus convexiusculus Macl.) 



Blaekburnt recorded Haptoncura ocularis from Queensland and the Hawaiian 



Islands, pointing out Sharp's opinion^ as to its identity with Raptoncus tetragonus. 



The types of Carpophilus convexiusculus agree with the specimen he had named 



a^ H. ocularis, and one of them agrees well with Murray's figure of H. tetragonus; 



the other has elytral markings more extended. I have also taken the species in 



the Cairns district. 



TROGOSITIDAE. 



Lepebina cibeosa Pasc. 

 (L. mastersi Macl.; L. burnettensis Macl.) 

 Ollitt' commented upon L. cirrosa as being remarkable "for the great length 

 of the white scales on the sides of the prothorax, and the large size of the elytral 

 fascicles"; but the scales and fascicles are very easily abraded and I cannot look 

 upon the type of L. mastersi as other than a large, partially abraded specimen of 

 the species; I think also that L. hurnettensis was founded upon small specimens 

 of the species, as OUiff thought possible. It occurs from Northern New South 

 Wales to Darwin. 



SoRONiA AMPHOTiFORjiis Rcitter. 

 {Aiicgrona vesca Oil.; Ancyrona arnica Oil.) 

 The types of A. vesca agree with specimens identified by Blackburn as S. 

 amphotiformis, and I cannot regard the type of A. arnica as othei' than a large, 

 partially" abraded specimen of the same species. 



•Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1849, p.28. 

 tMon. Nitid., 1863, p.401, PI. xxxiii., fig. 7. 

 JTrans. Boy. Soc. S. Aust., 1902, p.306. 

 §Tr. Dubl. Soc, 188.5, p.231. 



