BY A. RAFFHAY. 



Rytus emarginatus, King. 



2.°. 9 



£. emarginatus, King, (Tyrus) Trans. Ent. Soc. N.8.W. 1865, 

 p. 303; 11 9. Victoria, Kin--, (Rytus) I.e. 1865, p. 304. 



I have not seen emarginatus, King, but I have received from 

 Mr. Masters a specimen labelled Victorian, King, which is a ^; 

 and certainly King's description of Victoria' refers to a Q, and 

 that of emarginatus, King, to a £. Both have the same size and 

 a very obsolete punctuation. It is most likely that both £ and 

 9 belong to the same species. 



A', emarginatus has certainly the head very much like the head 

 of procurator, Schfs., but the strong punctuation on the head of 

 procurator would have been certainly mentioned by King, and 

 for this reason I consider it as a different species. 



As regards Victoria, King, (the supposed 9 of emarginatus, 

 King), it is certainly different from orientalis, Schfs., (the 9 of 

 procurator, Schfs.); in procurator (orientalis, 9) the punctuation 

 is much scattered, but rather strong and distinct; in Victoria the 

 punctuation is exceedingly obsolete, hardly visible and very 

 much scattered; the head is longer, more attenuate in front; the 

 maxillary palpi are shorter, the basal club of the 4th joint is 

 thicker and a trifle longer than the apical subulate part, which is 

 not quite so slender as in procurator: the 9th joint of the 

 antennae is at least as long as broad, and much longer than the 

 tenth, which is transverse ; the elytra are more rounded and 

 more convex. 



Parramatta (emarginatus, ex King) ; New South Wales 

 ( Vict 1 >rice, ex Masters). 



Rytus subulatus, King. 



Tyrus subulatus, King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N.S.W. LSG4, p. 103: 

 Rytus j)unctatus,J\.ing,7.c. 1866, p. 303, PL v. fig. 6; (J. subasper, 

 Schfs., Nunq. Otios. iii. p. 510. 



The identity of subulatus and punctatus, King, is evident, as 

 it was only a substitution of names; subulatus, being the older, 



