BY H. J. CARTER. 105 



amination. The smallest (except T. tasmanica Champ.), and the 

 most finely sculptured species in the genus. From Champion's 

 species, it differs in colour, clothing, and sculpture, the punctures 

 everywhere finer and nowhere variolose. The prothorax has a red- 

 dish tinge, when viewed from the side, in some cases. Types in the 

 author's Coll. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES VI. -VII. 

 Plate vi. 

 Fig. 1. — Platyphanes Clarki. 

 Fig. 2.— P. chalcopteroides. 

 Fig. 3 —P. Frenchi. 

 Fig. 4. — P. eUiptints. 

 Fig.5.— P. parallelus. 

 Fig. 6. — P. minor. 



Fig.7. — P. qnadrifoveatus, var. subangulatus, 

 Fig. 8. — P. qnadrifoveatus. 

 Fig. 9. — Bolbophants Dumbrelli Lea. 

 Fig. 10. — B. rugatu*. 

 Fig. 1 1. — B. varicolor. 

 Fig. 1 2. — Tore uma cupreum. 

 Fig. 13. - Chlorophanes punctipennis. 

 Fig. 14. — Mitrephorus ronvexicollis. 



Plate vii. 

 Fig. 1 — Pi-ophan.es brevispinosus. 

 Fig. 2.— P. ducalis. 

 Fig.3. — Trisilus femoralis Haag (at first, misdetermined by the author as 



a new species). 

 Fig, 1. — Cyclophants gloriosus. 

 Fig. 5. — G. variegatus. 

 Fig. 6. — C. splendens. 

 Fig.7. — Chartopteryx imperialis. 

 Fig. 8. — C. planus. 

 Fig.9. — Mmrodes Kershawi. 



Some loss of antennae and tarsi is due to the breaking loose of a specimen 

 in the box sent to Mr. Macintosh, who kindly took the original photo- 

 graphs. 



