78 H. I. Carter: 



19 Head wide (facies of Alphitobius) Taxes, Champ 



20 25 Aipterous , 



21 Eyes small, widely separated, body ovate, epipleurae wide (facies 



of Otiorrhyncus) Simarus, Borch 



Ismarus, Haag 



22 Eyes large, more approximate, $ obvate, epipleurae narrow 



1 Metistete, Pasc 

 Lisa, Haag 

 '23 25 Epipleurae scarcely separated from elytra, labial palpi oval or 

 clavate 



24 Legs without sexual characters, elytra striate punctate 



Melaps, Cart 

 (?) Oocistela, Boroh 



25 Tibiae dentate, femora hollowed and laminated in J 1 , elytra 



tuberculate Notocistela, n.gen. 



Synonymy. — Scaletomerus, Blackb. = Otys. Chump. 



By comparison of types in the Brit. Mus. Mr. Blair notes that — 

 S. proximus, Borch. = 0. harpilinus, Champ. 

 Simarus, Borcli. = Ismarus Haag. (nom pre-occ). 

 The former name was substituted by Borchmann for Ismarus. 

 Metistete, Pasc. = Lisa, Haag. 

 (?) Melaps, Cart. = Oscistda, Borch. 

 The synonymy of Lisa, Haag., with Metistete is pointed out under 

 Metistete below. 



I am not quite sure as to the synonymy of oocistela with Melaps, 

 having been unable to understand the last phrase in Herr Borch - 

 mann's description, " rundlich-viereckige Eudglied der Maxillar- 

 taster." If this last word is a misprint, as would appear from the 

 figure and description, and applies to the labial and not the 

 maxillary palpi, I think the synonymy would hold good. In Melaps 

 pilosus the palpi and mentum are very similar to those in the 

 figure of Oo. convexa. My original classification of Melaps as a 

 T enebrionid was an error, the tarsal claws being finely pectinate. 



Dimopphochilus, Borch. 

 Herr Borchmann has described three species, D. apicalis, D. diver- 

 sicollis and D. sobrinus. It seems quite possible that all three are 

 but varieties of a very common insect, which I have taken myself in 

 West Australia, and which is found in all collections. Having closely 

 examined by microscope several specimens of D. diver sicollis, I 

 find that the mandibles distinctly place the genus in my second 

 group, having a broad apex, more or less distinctly divided, as in 

 fig. given (Fauna Sud., West A us., 1905, p. 354), though in general 



1 The ^ of Metittete gtbbieollit, Newm., is winged. 



