72 SUBFAMILIES CYPHALEIN^E AND CNODALONINM, 



L. simplex Westw., is widely distributed in New South Wales 

 and Victoria, while my specimens of L. lata Waterh., are from 

 the Tweed River, N.S.W., and South Queensland. 



Mithippia Pasc. 



l.Prothorax widest at apex, punctures coarser, elytra striate-punctate. ... 



aurita Pasc. 



2. Prothorax with parallel sides, punctures finer, elytra irregularly punc- 

 tate Jansoni Bates. 



I have the former from the Blue Mountains. Of the latter, I 

 have a cotype from West Australia, kindly given me in exchange 

 from the British Museum. 



As it is impossible to identify Prophanes striato punctatus 

 Westw., from the ten words of its description, I append a de- 

 scription of the insect so labelled in the South Australian 

 Museum, kindly lent me, and which applies also to the two 

 specimens in the Macleay Museum, the first from Brisbane, the 

 latter labelled New South Wales. It is a Platyphanes, the 

 largest of the elongate group. 



Platyphanes striato-punctatus Westw. 



Elongate ovate, black, moderately nitid, pronotum and under 

 side with brownish tint, palpi, antennae, and tarsi reddish. 



Head : labrum emarginate: epistoma straight in front, rounded 

 at sides, making an angle with the strongly raised and sub- 

 cornute canthus, the latter straight at the sides; eyes bordered 

 on the inside by a carina, separated by a distance equal to the 

 2nd and 3rd antennal joints combined, the whole clearly and not 

 very closely punctate. Antennae not extending to base of pro- 

 thorax, enlarged towards apex, joint 3 little longer than 4, 3-7 

 obconic, 8-11 oval, longer than wide, 11 longer than 10. Pro- 

 thorax 4J x 7J mm., length measured in the middle, width at 

 base, arcuate-emarginate at apex, the anterior angles strongly 

 advanced and subacute but rounded at the tips; sides nearly 

 straight, extreme border thickened anteriorly, finer posteriorly 

 and on front angle; posterior angles widely acute (about 80°), 

 and very slightly produced, base bisinuate; disc with two foveas 



