170 Mr. C. J. Gahan’s notes on the 
Pachydissus boops, Blackb., Trans. R. Soc. 8. Australia, 
vol. xili., p. 128 (Dec., 1890) =P. brevicornis, 
Gahan, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Jan., 1891, 
pp. 25 and 27. 
7. Phacodes obscurus, Fabr. 
Callidium obscurum, Fabr., Mant. Ins., vol. i., p. 151. 
Tasmanta: Hobart and Franklin (Walker). 
8. Phacodes personatus, Erichs. 
Wieg. Archiv., 1842, 1., p. 221. 
Tasmanra: Launceston (Walker). 
This species does not appear under Phacodes in the 
Catalogue of Gemminger and Harold, but is quite 
erroneously placed as a synonym of Bethelium signi- 
ferum, Newm. The mistake has been copied by Masters 
in his List of Australian Coleoptera. 
9. Phacodes tenuitarsis, Pasc. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. vii. (1871), p. 270. 
West Austratia: Roebuck Bay (Walker), and Nicol 
Bay. 
10. Phacodes subfasciatus, sp. n. 
@. Fusco-brunneus, cinereo fulvoque pubescens; prothorace 
quam latiori vix longiori, lateribus cinereo sat dense pubescentibus, 
disco pube grisea fulvaque sparsim vestito, medio vix evidenter 
carinato; elytris pube cinerea fulvaque punctis brunneis adspersis 
interrupta, vestitis, utrisque paullo pone apicem fascia subobliqua 
albido-pubescente; apicibus truncatis, haud spinosis; antennis 
medium elytrorum vix excedentibus. Long. 10 mm. 
Hab. Roebuck Bay, North-west Australia (Walker). 
Dark brown, with a pubescence which is for the most part ashy 
grey, but which, along the middle of the head and pronotum, 
alongside the suture, and near the apex of the elytra, is more or 
less tawny in colour. This pubescence is interrupted by the rather 
large scattered setigerous punctures, but is almost sufficiently 
thick, except in one or two places, to conceal the ordinary close 
punctuation of the elytra. At about the beginning of its posterior 
fourth, each elytron has a transverse or slightly oblique band 
formed of a denser and whiter pubescence than that on the rest of 
the surface. Immediately in front of and just behind this band, 
