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PHL(EOCHAEIS. 



-P. antipodum, Pauv. I have met with this species, I think, 

 several times in the Port Lincoln district. If I am right in 

 my identification of it, however, M. Eauvel has founded his 

 description on immature or very pale specimens. I have now 

 before me two examples from Port Lincoln that I cannot 

 consider specifically distinct, one of which is coloured as 

 P. antipodum is described, while the other is very much darker, 

 being of a pitchy colour, with the front of the head, the thorax, 

 the apex of the elytra and of the hind body, and the base of the 

 antennae reddish. It is just possible that if my specimens were 

 placed side by side with M. Fauvel's types they might prove to 

 be a distinct species, but, judging by the description, I think 

 they are identical. 



HOMALIUil. 



a. Adelaides, sp. nov. Piceus ; mandibulis, labro, palpis, 

 antennis, pedibusque rufescentibus ; antennis brevibus, 

 crassiusculis ; capite medio sparsim, ad latera crebrius, 

 subtilius punctulato ; prothorace postice leviter angustato, 

 sparsius subtiliter punctulato ; elytris prothorace duplo 

 longioribus, crebrius subtiliter sublineatim punctulatis ; 

 abdomine obscure subtiliter punctulato. Long. 1\ 1. 

 There is a slightly reddish tone about the thorax, shoulders, 

 and sides of the hind-body in this insect. The antennas are 

 very little longer than the head ; their joints 3-10 all transverse 

 (4-10 strongly so), the apical joint very little longer than wide. 

 The thorax has strongly rounded sides, and is widest just be- 

 hind the front, thence slightly contracted to the base, in front 

 of which the sides are sinuate so that the hind angles are very 

 nearly right-angles ; there is scarcely any indication of longi- 

 tudinal foveas. The elytra are parallel-sided, and scarcely 

 wider than the thorax. The puncturation of the hind body 

 becomes more sparing and obscure from the base to the apex. 



Extremely like the European S. concinnum, Er., from which 

 it differs in its much shorter and stouter antennae, and in the 

 somewhat more distinct puncturation of the hind body. 



I obtained a single specimen from debris on the banks of the 

 Torrens. 



a. philorinoides, Eauv. I have taken under bark of 

 JEiicalyptus, both near Port Lincoln, and in the Adelaide district 

 specimens which agree quite satisfactorily with the description 

 of this insect, previously recorded only from Victoria. 



COLYDIID.E. 



DITO:\IA.. 



D. pidchra, sp. nov. Minus depressa ; rufa ; elytrorum disco 

 infuscato ; prothoracis lateribus valde explanatis fortiter 



