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REVISION OF THE SUBFAMILY TENEBRIONINjE, 

 FAMILY TENEBRIONID^. 



(Australian Species : with Descriptions of new Spkcies 

 OF Tenebrionin^^ and Cvphalein^). 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. 



(With six text-figures.) 

 Revision of the Subfamily l^enehrionince. 



This subfamily is in more need of revision than any of the 

 Tenehrio7iidce, through the extraordinary complications that have 

 arisen through the imperfect descriptions of early writers, 

 notably of Boisduval ; and this has been aggravated by the 

 diversity of determinations made by later authors. As these 

 complications apply to some of the commonest of Australian 

 insects, it is hoped that the author's attempt at reaching a stage 

 nearer finality will assist other entomologists by clearing our 

 catalogues of names that are either synonyms, or belong to lost 

 types, and are valueless. This task has been facilitated by the 

 aid of Mr. K. G Blair, of the British Museum, who has sent me 

 a collection of specimens, some of which have been compared 

 with the types of Pascoe and Hope, while others have some 

 historic value from their labels. 



The subfamily is now held to include the Coelometopides, 

 Tenebrionides vrais, and Toxicides of Lacordaire. 



Distribution. — In the new Catalogue of Junk, in which the 

 Tenehrionidce are so ably edited by Gebien, there are 97 genera 

 of the subfamily, excluding Microphyes, Chileone, and Ephidonius, 

 and including Teremenes (vide infra). Of these, only 16 are 

 represented in Australia, of which 10 are exclusively so (endemic). 

 These 10 are distributed as follows : — 



Exclusively Australian. 



Brises — Central Australia (including Northern Territory). 



Asphalus — New South Wales, Queensland (coastal districts). 



