50 REVISION OF THE SUBFAMILY TiJSEBRIONlNJ^, • 



the excellent description and figure by Blessig) I should place 

 U. Lottinii Boisd., as a probable synonym; this doubt rendering 

 it undesirable to preserve the name. 



Upis cretiata Boisd. — There has again been much disagreement 

 as to the insect described under this name. The Macleay 

 Museum has, under this name, what is undoubtedly P. nigra 

 Bless., probably so identified by Macleay. The British Museum 

 has a specimen of Hypaulax oblonga Bates, labelled as U. crenata 

 Boisd.; while another specimen bearing this name, in the British 

 Museum, is certainly Hyjyaulax temiistriatw, and Herr Gebien 

 writes that he has an Hypaulax under BoisduvaFs name. The 

 ten words of BoisduvaFs description, without dimensions, apply 

 more aptly to Hypaulax than to Promethis, especially "thorace 

 Isevigato, subconvexo, lateribus rotundato," since the species of 

 Promethis, in no case, have a Isevigate thorax, nor are the sides 

 notably rounded. Although the name has reappeared in Junk's 

 Catalogue under Setenis, it should be consigned to oblivion, as a 

 probable synonym of the common Hypaulax oblonga Bates. Jt 

 is scarcely possible that Boisduval should have failed to collect 

 this in the Sydney district. 



Baryscelis laticollis Boisd. - It would be tedious and useless to 

 follow up the various attempts to determine this species. In 

 1869, Pascoe described Meneristes laticollis, which is possibly the 

 same thing, though Champion expresses a contrary opinion 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 392), without giving any reason. There 

 seems little cause to doubt that Pascoe's species is the same as 

 that described by Blessig as Tenehrio australis, by Motschulsky 

 as Asiris angulicollis, and by Blanchard as T. iiigerrimus. Mr. 

 Blair writes that in the Bates Coll., he has "one series over 

 laticollis Pasc, and another over australis Macl.; but I cannot 

 distinguish between them." The Rev. T. Blackburn proposed, 

 as his solution of the tangle, the identity of T. australis Boisd., 

 and B. laticollis Boisd., but even Boisduval could scarcely 

 describe the same insect under two genera in two successive 

 pages. Moreover, the words " antice emarginato " applied to 

 B. laticollis, are not contained in the ten words that describe 

 T. australis; and this being a marked character in Pascoe's 



