368 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN P:NT0M0L0GY, XV., 



yeux; corselet en coeur, reborde lateralement, avec une ligne 

 longitudinal au milieu, et deux traits au bord posterieur, d'un 

 vert brillant, un peu bronze au milieu, elytrees bronzees, ovales, 

 striees, avec trois points sur la troisieme strie, le bord exterieur 

 d'un vert eclatant; dessous du corps et pattes noirs. Nouvelle- 

 Hollande. Collection de M. Gory." 



Genus Setalimorphus. 

 Setalimorphus nanus Sloane. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2) ix., 1894, p.435; Phcenaulax 

 stenomorpha Tschitscherine, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross.xxxii.l898,p.l67. 



The late M. Tschitscherine had recoa:nised his genus Phcenaulax 

 as synonymous with Setalimorphus f' and a comparison of speci- 

 mens of *S'. nanus with the description of Ph. stenomoj'pha con- 

 vinces me that they are the same species. I am not, however, 

 convinced that Phcenaulax is absolutely congeneric with Setali- 

 rtioT2')h%is\ points of dijBPerence being the presence of a setigerous 

 puncture at the basal angles of the prothorax, and two foveiform 

 punctures on the apical ventral segment in S. punctiventris SI. 

 (the type-species of the genus), characters which are not found 

 in aS'. nanus SI. My present conclusion is that while Tschits- 

 cherine's genus Phenaulctx is likely to obtain ultimate recognition 

 as valid, the species on which it is founded must be considered a 

 synonym of Setalimorphus nanus SI. 



Rhytisternus l^vidorsis Tschitscherine. 



Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxv. 1891, p. 169. 



In these Proceedings (1894 p. 4 10) I published the opinion 

 that Rhytisternus Icevidorsis Tschits., was synon3'^mous with R. 

 {Pcecilus) Icevis Macl., but having recognised a species sent to me 

 by Mr. F. P. Dodd from Townsville, Queensland, as jK. Icevidorsis, 

 I have no doubt but that it is a good species, thoroughly distinct 

 from R. Icevis. In R. Icevidorsis the posterior angles of the pro- 



* Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xxxv. p.508 (1902). 



