Avstraliwn Gistelidae. tif 



Bates's note as to the punctures and rugosity of the antennae is 

 valueless. I find the same feature in many sp. of Chromomoea. 

 Finally, there seems little doubt but that L. foveicdllis, Bates, had 

 already been described by (Icrmar as Allecula fastigiata, a name 

 omitted from Borchmann's catalogue, and unnoticed by Blackburn, 

 though a common insect in South Australia. 



Licymnius strigicollis, Fauv., is quite unknown to me, and has 

 therefore been omitted from the above table. 



/.. bicolor, Blackb. — This insect is so unlike L. foveicdllis, Bates, 

 in the structure id' the prothorax and antennae that it cannot be 

 included in the same genus. It will be found later under my n. gen. 

 Atoichus. 



G. pitta, Pasc. — It may be considered doubtful whether picta, 

 pascoei, Bates, and vittata, Bates, are not merely varieties of the 

 same species. Specimens compared with the types have been sent 

 from the British Museum, and I am unable to separate pascoei 

 from vittata, which must be considered as synonyms. In C. picta 

 the yellow colour largely predominates on the elytra, only the suture 

 and sides being black, while the legs and antennae are yellow 

 (except the apex of the hind femora). I have only seen specimens 

 of G. picta from Queensland, and Northern New South Wales. 

 Paseoe gives Brisbane as its habitate. Most Australian collections 

 have used the three names rather indiscriminately, and I have 

 hitherto regarded the common Sydney species (C. pascoei, Bates) as 

 picta, Pasc. Specimens from Dorrigo, N.S.W., winch I regard as 

 Pascoei var., are unusually dark in colour, with the elytral vitta 

 reduced, and the legs sometimes quite black. It is very probable 

 that Eutrapela australica, Bohem., is the same as G. pascoei, 

 Bates, in which' case the latter name becomes a synonym. 



G. nigriceps, Champ. — I have never seen an authentic specimen 

 of this, even from an old Tasmanian collector like Mr. Lea. From 

 the description I am unable to separate it from pallida. Bates, 

 though its author says he has compared it with all Bates's types. 

 While placing it under pallida in my table, I do not necessarily 

 imply that it is a synonym of that species, which, however, is a very 

 variable insect, and may well include its Tasmanian ally. 



G. maculicornis, Blackb. — I think I have identified this, which 

 again may be considered but a variety of pallida. 



G. Mastersi, Macl., only differs from G. Deplanchei, Fob, in the 

 colour of the legs, and shade of the antennae — characters of doubt- 

 ful value. I have a specimen from Sydney like the Queensland 

 type. I include under Chromomoea several species that Blackburn 



