124 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



insect; also it is said only to be " apicem versus et lateralibus 

 seriatim et remote subtiliter granulatis," while Hope's insect and 

 my specimens have the elytra plainly and rather closely granulated 

 from base to apex of elytra 



TENEBHIONID^. 



Phycosecis litoralis Pasc. = P. algarum Pasc. — Mr. Champion 

 has pointed out the fact that this genus cannot be retained in 

 the Heteromera (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894, Part ii., p.364). 

 I compared the types of these two species with specimens taken 

 by myself at Sydney and Fremantle. The differences between 

 the two type-specimens are, I think, due only to abrasion. Fresh 

 specimens are covered with a white squamosity, easily removed, 

 and in this case the insect is of a dirty brown colour. 



Dipsoconia {Endophloeus) australis Hope. — The distinction 

 between this and Z>. j^y^'ifosa'P&sc., is little known to Australian 

 collectors. D. australis is of a lighter colour, with distinctly 

 costate elytra; while E. jn/ritosa is much darker, with shorter 

 hairs, and elytra without distinct costse. The first-mentioned is 

 synonymous with D.Bakewelli Pasc, {Jicle Champion, Trans Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1894). My specimens of D. australis are from Tas- 

 mania; those of D. pyritosa are from Muswellbrook, N.S.W. 

 The type is from Melbourne. 



Arrlienoplita pygmcea Champ.: Corticeus australis Champ. : 

 Diphyrrhyncus ellipticus Champ.: Ectyche coerulea Champ. — 

 I am indebted to the generosity of Mr. Champion for cot3'pes of 

 these. 



JSelceus. — No identification of species in this genus should 

 depend on the right or left prothoracic process overlapping. Thus 

 in the Paris Museum, of two specimens labelled H. perforatus 

 Latr., the tj'^pe has the right overlapping the left, the second 

 specimen has left over right. Of thirteen specimens in the 

 British Museum labelled H. perforatus Latr., five have left over 

 right, seven have right o\ev left, while in one case these processes 

 do not meet. Again, of nine specimens marked H. colossus Breme, 

 six have left over right, while three have right over left. 



