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called Anaxo — a genus very narrowly differentiated from Ghro- 

 niomoea, but which must be more strictly limited if retained as 

 distinct from Chromomoea. Evidently Blackburn's idea of Ana.ro 

 differs from Bates's, since A. aereus, Blackb. =C. unicolor, Bates. 

 The latter author specially excluded the narrower navicular species 

 from Anaxo, while the wider, more depressed form, short terminal 

 joint of the antennae, black colour, more robust head (less con- 

 tracted behind the eyes), are characters which in combination are 

 true of the speeies retained below under Anaxo. 



Synonymy. — C. pascoei, Bates = (7. vittata, Bates = {1) Eutrapela 

 australica, Bohem. 

 C. (allecula) fastigiata, Germ. =C. (Licymnius) fovei- 



collis, Bates. 

 ('. Deplanchei, Fauv. =C. rufipennis, Blackb. 



var. C. mastersi, Macl. 

 C. rufescens, Bates = Ana.ro puncticeps, Blackb. 

 C. unicolor. Bates = An axo aereus, Blackb. 

 va r . sydn eya n u s , Blackb. 

 var. lindensis, Blackb. 

 The first two cases above have been already discussed. The 

 synonymy of rufipennis, Blackb., with Deplanchei , Fauv., has been 

 noted by Borchmann. Evidently C. masters/', Macl., is only a 

 slight colour variety, the antennae being castaneous brown instead 

 •of black, and the legs, except the apex of post femora, red. 



Anaxo puncticeps, Blackb. — There are three specimens so named 

 in the Melbourne Museum, probably by Blackburn, from Victoria, 

 the original habitat. These correspond with the description, and 

 are certainly conspecific with what I consider is C . rufescens, Bates, 

 a fairly common insect in New South Wales. 



Anaxo aereus, Blackb. — The synonymy of this with G. unicolor, 

 Bates, is confirmed by Mr. Blair, who has compared the types. 

 Blackburn himself surmised this in his note under A. sydneyanus 

 (Trans. Hoy. Soc, S. Aus., 1893, p. 1:54), the latter having slight 

 colour differences in the antennae. With regard to lindensis the 

 author gives slight differences of size, colour and the relative width 

 of head to that of prothorax to distinguish its from at reus. The 

 size and colour are of no account. 1 have seen so-called specimens 

 from the South Aus. Mus. of both species, of varied size, and colour 

 without any distinction, as is also the case with labelled speci- 

 mens from the Brit. Mus. The head wider or narrower than 

 the prothorax, is again a variable character, so difficult to assess, 

 that with eighl so-called aereus and seven so-called lindensis before 



