70 SUBFAMILIES CYPHALEINjE AND CNODALONINuE, 



Prophanes Westw. 



l(3)Elytra bronze. 



2.Head, pronotum, and underside black *aculeatus Westw. 



3. Head, pronotum and underside nitid purple-bronze ducalis, n.sp. 



4(6)Elytra blue (purplish in brevispinosus). 



5. Elytra sparsely foveate-punctate Master si Pasc. ; chalybeipennis Macl. 



6. Elytra closely, finely punctate. brevispinosus, n.sp. 



P. cupreipennis Macl., and P. submetallicus Macl., from New- 

 Guinea, have non-spinose pronotum and apex of elytra, and are 

 more at home under Cyphaleus. 



P. spinosus Waterh., and P. tricolor Haag, are transferred to 

 the genus Anausis (vide infra). 



P. striatopunctatus Westw. — There are two specimens so named 

 in the Macleay Museum, which are Platyphanes of the elongate, 

 10-striate type. They are labelled New South Wales (West- 

 wood's type came from Melbourne), and correspond to West- 

 wood's very brief diagnosis, except that the elytra are black 

 instead of "cseruleo-nigris." It maybe noted that Westwood 

 considered Anausis metallescens and Lygestira simplex as included 

 under his genus Prophanes. 



Mozrodes Waterh. 



Elytra with punctures fine and irregular Weshooodi Macl. 



Elytra striate-punctate Kershawi, n.sp. 



Anausis Bates. 



l.Head and pronotum brown, apex of elytra produced beyond spines. 



Macleayi Bates. 



2(4)Head and pronotum black, apex of elytra not thus produced. 



3. Hairs on elytra long, punctures large quadrispinosus Waterh.; 



tricolor Haag. 



4. Hairs on elytra short and sparse, punctures smaller ... 



metallescens Westw.; spinosus Waterh. 



The synonymy of A. tricolor Haag, with A. quadrispinosus 

 Waterh., has been noted above. From the description, it seemed 

 likely that Prophanes spinosus Waterh., was merely an abraded 

 specimen of A. metallescens Westw. While writing this, I receive 



* Species unknown to the author in nature. 



