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Hypaulax — AW States; widely distributed. 



Ilydissus — New South Wales, Queensland, Lord Howe Island. 



Oec^os-is — Victoria, South Australia. 



Meneristes —l^ew South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queens- 

 land, South Australi-B. 



Teremenes — New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queens- 

 land, South Australia. 



Si/nercticus —New South Wales, Queensland. 



Tanylypa —Tasmania. 



Paratoxicum — Tasmania, and Victorian Alf)S. 



Not exclusively Australian. 



The remaining six genera are distributed as follows : — 



Pediris — Cape York, Austro-Malay Islands. 



Encyalesthus India, E. Asia and Japan, Austro-Malay Islds., 

 E. Australia. 



Promethis -'^\\ik\m, Lord Howe Island, Australia (all States). 



Menephihis — Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia (all States). 



7'ewe6r2o— Cosmopolitan ; two species universally distributed 

 as flour- and grain-pests; other species world-wide. 



Toxicum — Africa, America, Asia, Australia (all States). 



Brises and Ephidonius. 



In Junk's Catalogue, Herr Gebien places Bynses with the 

 Tenehrionince, and Ephidonius with the CyphaleiiuB', but what- 

 ever classification be adopted, it seems quite undesirable to 

 separate them. In the trapezifotm shape of the head, with the 

 eyes widely separated, both are much nearer the Tenehrionince, 

 as further indicated in the continuous epipleurse; while in the 

 form of the antennae, the more widened emargination of the 

 thorax, and especially in the carinate prosternum, they show a 

 strong relationship with the Cyphaleince. Both, however, have 

 marked characters in which they differ very much from each of 

 these groups. (1) In the palpi, where the last joint of the max- 

 illary palpi is at most rather narrowly triangular; in B. trachy- 

 notoides Fasc, this joint is so narrow as to be considered subulate; 

 whereas in both Tenehrionince and Cyphaleince it is strongly 



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