208 On the Goleop'erous Genus Lcmode?. 



timber in the " scrub,'*' and appiirenlly feeds on the fungoid 

 growths infesting such situations. It is not gregarious like 

 L. coccinea, Boh. 



L. tumidipennis differs very considerably from tlie other 

 species of the genus Lemodes, not only in the peculiar form of 

 tlie elytra, which may indeed be considered merely an exagge- 

 ration of that which is found in L. coccinea, but also in the 

 lack of the long silky red pubescence, witii which the others 

 are for the most part clothed, and more particularly in the 

 shape of the head, which instead of being strongly transverse 

 and subtriangular in outline, and almost truncate behind the 

 eyes, is almost circular in outline and strongly rounded 

 behind the eyes. The prothorax is about half as long again 

 as it is broad and more strongly compressed laterally before 

 the base, so that it appears lo bulge out dorso-ventrally. 

 These characters certainly warrant generic separation, and 

 1 propose for it the name Lemodinus. 



The small size and general facies of this insect give it a 

 distinctly Antliicid appearance, indeed a search amongst the 

 unnamed Antliicid material in the i\luseum Collection re- 

 vealed the presence of some of the specimens taken by 

 Commander Walker and presented by him. An examination 

 of the characters, together with those of Lemodes, proves 

 that both these genera should be transferred to the Anthi- 

 cidse. The deep form of the body, not at all depressed, the 

 more or less moniliform antenna?, the small, entire, and 

 prominent eyes, the constiicted prothorax, and, finally, the 

 broad triangular intercoXcd process of the abdomen all point 

 to their true affinities with the Anthicidae and are characters 

 all quite foreign to the Pyrochroidse. Herr von Krekich- 

 Strassoldo informs me further that the genitalia agree in 

 general wnth those of the Anthicida?, and that the lower wings, 

 while belonging, as do those of all the Heteromera, to Gangl- 

 bauer's Type 111. (Mtinchener Koleopt. Zeitschr. 1903, p. 'I'^ri, 

 or Gahan in Entom. vol. xliv. 1911, p. 125), yet in Lemodes 

 show a more develo))ed form than appears in the Pyrochroidai ; 

 in the Anthicidse these organs show very considerable variety 

 in their degree of development. 



To the same group of genera as indicated by ^Iv. Black- 

 burn (Trans. Roy. JSoc. tS. Austr. 1899, vol. xxiii. p. 83) 

 belongs his genus Trichananca. Mr. Blackburn has suffi- 

 ciently demonstrated the relationship of T. victoriensis, 

 Blackbn., with Lemodes, indeed he considered that L. corti- 

 calis, Lea = T. vicionensis, Blackbn^ (the latter name taking 

 precedence); while an examination of the tj'pe of T. victoriensis 

 now in the collection of the British Museum makes it clear 



