486 Mr. K. G. Blair on the Fahrician Ti/pes of 



22. jVphitobius Icevigatus, Spec. Ins. i. p. [iO [O^jatruni). 



New Zealand. 



=piceus, 0\. ,= Microphyes inifipes, Macl. 



This name is also omitted from the Catalogues. 



I have to thank Mr. H. J. Carter, ot Sydney, for a spoci- 

 men of Alicrophyes 7-ufipes, Macl., compared with tlie tyjx'. 

 Champion notes Alphitobius piceus,0\., from Adelaide River 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. 18U4, p. 379), and remarks that it is not 

 included in Master^s Catalogue. 



23. Saragus laivicoUis, Syst. Ent. p. 73 {SUpha). Australia. 



Tin's species is credited in the Catalogues to Olivier (Ent. 

 ii. 1790, 11, p. 12), but this anthor again only follows the 

 description of Eabricius. Confusion has also arisen as to 

 the species designated. The type belongs to Maclcay's 

 Section II., with the elytia reticulate, and, from descrij)tion, 

 is probably identical with S. reticuhitus, Haag. Two other 

 specimens in the British Museum have their origin indieated 

 as ''Queensland." The Tasmanian and southern insect 

 identiliod as this sj^ecies by de Brcme, Hope, and Machay 

 should therefore be known as S. costatus, Sol. { = lavicolJis, 

 de Br., Hope, Macl., nee F.). 



24. Taraxides Icevigatus, ¥., Spec. Ins. i. p. 323. Tro})ical 

 Africa. 



= T, sinuutus, F.,= 7'. conftmts, Westw. 



There is some little doubt as to whether the insect pur- 

 porting to be the type of this species was the otie actually 

 observed by Fabricius. Wcstwood did not think it was, 

 and named it afresh (Trans. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1843, p. 223), 

 but his rea.«on for this opinion was mainly that it differed 

 from the description in being larger than T, moUtor, instead 

 of smaller, as slated. This was apparently a slip, and is so 

 noted by Olivier, whose figure also agrees suffieiently well 

 with the Banksian insect to be recognizable (Oliv. Ent. iii. 

 1795, 57, p. 16, pi. ii. fig. I'd lis). This figure is incorrectly 

 quoted in the text as fig. 19. Tiie identity of Tenehrio Icevi- 

 </ntns, v., with T. Iavi(jaliis, L., presumed by Olivier and 

 Wcstwood, is ap])arently ineorrect, and is nowliere suggested 

 by Fabricius. 



