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P. floricola, sp. nov. Sat late ovalis ; sat convexus ; nitidus ; 

 supra brunneo-testaceus, capite prothoraceque in disco, et 

 elytris prsesertim latera versus, varie inf uscatis ; corpore 

 subtus pedibusque rufo-brunneis ; capite crebre minus sub- 

 tiliter, prothorace minus crebre magis subtiliter, elytris 

 (striis neglectis) fere ut caput sed minus crebre, punctulatis ; 

 elytris striatis, striarum (his apicem versus multo magis 

 fortiter impressis) puncturis quam interstitiorum sat 

 raajoribus. Long., 2|— 24 L; lat., 14 1. 

 Victoria ; on flowers near Fernshaw (Black Spur). 



PHYTOPHAGA. 



I have recently sent examples of a considerable number of the 

 Phytophaga that I have described to the eminent specialist Mr. 

 M. Jacoby, of the London Entomological Society, with the 

 request that he would favour me with information regarding any 

 of my determinations that he might consider incorrect. He has 

 courteously responded to this request and has pointed out the 

 following errors (which it seems desirable to place on record) in 

 my work. 



TEKILLUS. 



T. micans, Blackb. Mr. Jacoby informs me that this species 

 is identical with Alittus foveolntus, Chp., and adds the informa- 

 tion that he also regarded it as a Terillus and that it is the 

 species he described as T. porosus. I have no doubt Mr. Jacoby 

 has conclusive reasons for this determination (probably he has 

 seen Chapuis' type) but it should be noted that Chapuis in his 

 tabulation of the //^/tmei^^.s' indicates as a leading character of 

 Alittus that the lateral margins of the pronotum are perfectly 

 straight (" tout a fait droits' ) which they are most emphatically 

 not in this insect, and in the specific description says that the 

 tibiaj are the same colour " Jiavo ferruginicB " as the antennae 

 which they are not in any of the somewhat numerous specimens 

 that I have seen of this insect. No doubt Dr. Chapuis incorrectly 

 described his insect. 



HALTICODES. 



This genus (charactised by me Tr. Roy. Soc, S. A., 1896, p. 69 

 Mr. Jacoby says does not appear to him to ditfer from Lactica 

 Dr. Chapuis gives as one of the main distinctions of the Lacticites 

 the presence of a deep transversal prothoracic furrow " limite de 

 <ihaque mtc^ In Halticodes the prothoracic furrow terminates 

 laterally by arching round to the base ; whereas T understood the 

 expression ^'•limite de chaque cote'' to indicate that the 

 transversal furrow is cut off on either side by a longitudinal 

 furrow at right angles to it (as in Crepidodera). I presume how- 

 ever that this is not the case, and in that event I do not know 



