Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. 249 



SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL POSITION. 



Lycus (Charactus) australis, Boisd., Voy. Astr,, II, p. 

 119; Dej., Cat., 3 ed., p. 112; Wat., Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Loud., 1877, p. 74 ; Masters (Calopteron), Cat. Col. 

 Aust., No. 3364. 



" Supra croceus ; thorace macula media nigra ; elytris 

 subparallelis sulcatis ; subtus antennisque nigris." 



Hah. Australia. 



Of the species here recorded this description fits 

 IletriooThynchtts nigripes, lateralis, marginicollis, irrcgidaris 

 and Trichalus amjjliatus; without additional particulars 

 therefore it would be dangerous to identify any species as 

 australis. 



Lycus ochraceus, Dalm., Sch. Syn. Ins., App., p. 81; 

 Boisd., Voy. Astr., II, p. 122; Wat., Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 85 ; Masters {Metriorrhynchus), 

 Cat., Sp. No. 3354. 



" Subtus ater, supra ochraceus ; thorace disco nigro ; 

 elytris stratis, reticulato-punctatis. 

 " Long 6 lin. 

 " Elytra ad scutellum infuscata." 



Hah. Australia. 



There are about a dozen species before me, any one of 

 which might be ochraceus, as they all agree with the above 

 description. 



Pyrocoelia bicolor, Fabr. {Lampyris), Syst. El., II, p. 

 100 (1801); Boisd., Voy. Astr., II, p. 129 (1835); 

 Mots. (Cratomorphus Mots.), Etud. Ent., p. 34 (1853) ; 

 Gorham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1880), p. 91; E. 

 Oliv., Notes Leyd. Mus., VIII, p. 199 (1886) ; Olliff, 

 P. L. S., N.S.W. (1889), p. 646. 



" Supra testacea, subtus atra, abdominis segmentis 

 duobus penultimis striga abbreviata, albissima." 



Hah. N. S. Wales ? 



This description may have been drawn up from a pallid 

 specimen of Luciola Jlavicollis, or from a species of 

 Atypliella. 



