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swollen and visible from above; lateral channel wider; lateral 

 border more arcuate, and passing round anterior angle; elytra 

 wider, shorter, less convex, less strongly striate, &c. 



Tribe Lebiini. 

 Group Sarothrocrepides. 



In his monograph of the Masoreides and Tetragonoderides 

 (Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, 1876, pp. 1-84), Chaudoir indicated 

 a separate group, Sarothrocrepides, distinguished from the 

 Tetragonoderides by the bilobate, fourth joint of the tarsi. This 

 character, however, fails in Lehiomorpha gravis Blackb., and L. 

 fragilis Blackb., so that it seems likely that the group Sarothro- 

 crepides may have to be united with the Tetragonoderides.* 

 Be that as it ma}^, I retain, for the present, Chaudoir's group 

 Sarothrocrepides for the two Australian genera Saroth^'ocrepis 

 and Lehiomorpha. Ectroma (Blackburn, 1889) is the same as 

 Lehiomorpha, but it is a preoccupied name. Chaudoir's unedited 

 name, Lehiomorpha, is, therefore, to be used in its place. Black- 

 burn has dealt very fully with the genus Lebiomorj^ha in Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S. Anst., 190i, pp.105-110. 



Genus Sarothrocrepis. 

 Table of Australian Species. 



1(12) Piothorax with basal angles acute; base truncate on each side 



and with median lobe prominent. 

 2(11) Elytra with humeral angles not raised or prominent. 

 . 3(10) Prothorax unicolorous (testaceous). 



4(5) Elytra with interstices setulose (pattern as in corticalis) 



setuhf^a SI. 



5(4) Elytra not setulose. 



6(9) Length 8'o-lOmm. 



7(8) Elytra testaceous on basal third and with a large ante-apical 



black area corticalis Fabr. 



■' Bedel has regarded the Tetragonoderini as having full tribal value, in 

 his Cat. Raison. Col. du Nord Africa, 1905, p. 229; but I think the group is 

 rather a section of the great tribe Lebiini. The long tibial spurs, witli 

 their outer edge on the lower side serrulate, are characteristic of the 

 Tetragonoderides and Sarothi'ocrepides. 



