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whereas in P. vitiensis the ‘‘apex” of the elytra should be infus- 
cate, in this specimen the infuscation is slightly in front of the 
apex, leaving the extreme apex of a pallid color. 
PHALACRID&. 
In the Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1893-4 occurs an important memoir 
in which M. Guillebeau revises this family and enumerates a 
number of new genera and species including several from Aus- 
tralia. The author distributes the family into ten sub-families. 
I regret that I have been unable to arrive at any very certain 
conclusions as to the identification of the various sub-families and 
genera. As regards the sub families, some of them appear to be 
distinguished inter se by very slight characters ; the Olibromor- 
phini for instance are expressly stated to agree with the Olibrini 
in everything except in the metasternal process being shorter so 
as not to protrude beyond the intermediate coxe. As regards 
the genera they are not recognisable with absolute certainty, no 
diagnosis being published and there being no indication of the 
characters beyond the few that the author makes use of in a 
tabulation of genera which he supplies. This tabulation, of 
course, only enables one to identify the genera on the assumption 
(a very large one) that all the species one is examining are 
referable to the genera named in M. Guillebeau’s table. 
I have before me a considerable collection of Phalacride 
gathered by Mr. Koebele and placed in my hands for identifica- 
tion. Owing to the very scanty characters attributed to Mr. 
Guillebeau’s genera I am unable to refer any of the above 
mentioned specimens with certainty to any of those genera—but 
on the other hand there are none of those specimens which I can 
say with certainty do not belong to his genera. Under these 
circumstances the only possible course for me in describing Mr. 
Koebele’s new species is to furnish a table of the genera which 
M. Guillebeau attributes to Australia arranged by his characters 
and apply to the species provisionally the names which that 
author employs, pointing out nevertheless that by this course I 
probably include under some of his names species which, if he 
had them before him, he would regard as requiring new generic 
names. The species described below, then, are divided into 
genera according to the following scheme, with the one exception 
indicated further on. J must remark however that the species 
which I refer to M. Guillebeau’s sub-family Olibromorphini have 
the metasternum according to my observation protruding slightly 
beyond the intermediate coxe, though not nearly so much pro- 
truding as the metasternum of those species which I refer to his 
Olibrini. I am disposed to think that this discrepancy is only a 
slight difference between his observation and mine because the 
species which have the metasternum short agree more or less 
