ABT. 14 THE BEETLE FAMILY PSEUDOMORPHIDAE NOTMAN 25 



SILPHOMORPHA VICINA Castelnau 



New South Wales (Hy Edwards Coll.).— Coll. Amer. Mns. Nat. 

 Hist. 



SILPHOMORPHA FALLAX Westwood 



South Australia (Hy Edwards Coll.) (3) ; New South Wales, 

 Australia (Edwards Coll.) (2) ; Mount Lofty. South Australia 

 (Lea); Tintinara, under bark, July 1. 1887, Tepper (Lea). — Coll. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Genus SPHALLOMORPHA Westwood 



No new species could be distinguished in the material at hand in 

 this genus and no complete descriptions are given. The species are 

 somewhat more easily separated than in the other genera. In the 

 following synopsis the species marked with an asterisk are those 

 known from the original descriptions only, not being identified in 

 the material at hand. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF GENUS SPHALLOMORPHA WESTWOOD 



1. Color brilliant metallic green with purple or violet reflections. 



* speciosa Pascoe. 

 Color not brilliant metallic green 2 



2. Elytra without discal or sutural maculae or vittae 3 



Elytra with discal or sutural maculae or vittae 8 



3. Elytra without basal and apical pale fasciae decipiens Westwood. 



Elytra with basal and apical pale fasciae 4 



4. Elytra finely rugose. Thorax entirely pale. Elytral fasciae wider. 



* flavicollis MacLeay. 

 Elytra smooth, shining 5 



5. Lateral pale vittae of the elytra submarginal. Thorax black, with narrow 



piceous margin * marginata Ca.stelnaxi. 



Lateral pale vittae marginal 6 



6. Thoracic disk entirely red nitiduloides Gu^rin. 



Thoracic disk not entirely red 7 



7. Thoracic disk red with two broad black vittae picta Castelnau. 



Thoracic disk entirely black ornata MacLeay. 



8. Elytra without discal maculae or vittae 9 



Elytra with discal maculae or vittae 17 



9. Elytra more smooth and shining, scarcely at all alutaceous 10 



Elytra less shining, distinctly alutaceous 12 



10. Elytra with a common basal pale reddish, triangular macula which includes 



scutellum * discoidalis Castelnau. 



Elytra not thus maculate 11 



11. Elytra with common, nearly I'ound. pale macula on posterior half. 



* guttifera Castelnau. 



Elytra with common macula median in position and produced in a point 



toward scutellum guttigera Newanan. 



12. Thorax very broad, about three times as wide as long. Elytra with com- 



mon cordiform pale macula * cordifer Blackburn. 



Thorax narrower, about twice as wide as long 13 



13. Thorax and elytra with conspicuous pale margins 14 



Thorax and elytra without or with very narrow pale margins 15 



