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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



PHYLLOCHARIS. 



P. melanocephala, Baly. la th« Proceedings of the Austral- 

 asian Association for the Advancement of Science, 1902, p. 402, 

 Mr. Lea announces the occurrence in N.S. Wales of a species 

 under the above designation. I cannot find that Baly described 

 such an insect. Perhaps Mr. Lea refers to P. melanospila, Baly, 

 described in the Journal of Entomology, Vol. I., p. 290. 



AUGOMELA. 



A. tgnita. In the Proceedings of the Australasian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 1902, p. 417, Mr. Lea has 

 described an insect under this name, having apparently over- 

 looked the fact that Mr. M. Jacoby had already described an 

 Australian Augomela under the same name. It appears to me 

 that the two descriptions are founded on the same species, 

 although Mr. Lea's brevity (omitting e.g. a descriptioa of the 

 shape of the prothorax) makes it difficult to be confident. 

 Jacoby's type (Ann. Ent. Soc. Belg., 1898, p. 368) was from 

 Richmond, N.S.W., — Lea's from lUawarra, N.S.W. 



Postscript. 

 While the preceding pages have been in the printers' hands it 

 has occurred to me that above, in my tentative Revision of the 

 genus Onthophagus, I have used the term " metasternum" some- 

 what loosely. "Disc of the metasternum " would have been 

 more accurate, as in every case where the segment is mentioned 

 it is the horizontal surface (bounded laterally by the lines of the 

 intermediate coxse produced hindward to the abdomen) that is 

 referred to, and the " sides of the metasternum " mean the 

 lateral parts of that horizontal surface. 



