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6. Tribe P3:debini. 

 key' to genera. 

 Section Pcsderl. 

 Posterior tarsi two-lobed in tlie fourth joint, or furnished witli 

 a membranous appendage; anterior tarsi expanded. Pccderus. 



Posterior tarsi with the fourth joint simple, not furnished 

 with a membranous appendage. Litliocharis. 



Fcrderus. 

 P. cruenticollis, Germ.; Fauvel, I., 55. P. cingulatus, Macleay, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, N.S.W., 1871, IL, 146. 

 Corselet red ; eh/tra hhce, passing to green or to hlach ; 

 antenna', stout, rising ; ahdomen black, or at the fourth and fifth 

 segments more or less reddish, sparsely punctate. AVinged, black, 

 nitid, with very long greypubescenee thinly distributed, elytra 

 a purple tint, or greenish, or else blackish purple, thorax red 

 in front of the hips, the fourth and iifth abdominal segments 

 very often dark brown or red, the middle dusky, the first three 

 joints of the antennae reddish, beyond more or less pitch brown ; 

 these latter are stout, strongly clubbed about the apex and 

 pilose, fifth and tenth joints sensibly broader ; head oblong, 

 eyes large, a pretty deep impression on each side running 

 longitudinally to the base of the antennae, head finely but 

 sparsely punctate ; middle of the disc and forehead smooth ; 

 mandibles black ; thorax ovate, convex, same width as head, on 

 each side finely but sparsely punctate ; scutelhnn black and 

 punctate ; elytra a good deal broader than thorax, a little 

 longer, thickly and deeply rugose, together with the abdomen 

 pretty deeply' but rather thinly punctate. 

 Length — 6^-7 mill. 



Localities. — Eockhampton, :Melbourne, Tasmania, King 

 George's Sound, Adelaide (type examples). 



Lithocharis. 

 L. debilicornis, Woll.— Fauvel, II., 51. 

 Size very small, testaceous red all over. The smallest of the 

 genus; in shape like hrunnea ; a little shining, having a sparse 

 pubescence, the mouth, antenna^, elytra, and f eetyellow ; antenUcT 

 very short, monilif orm ; head and thorax very finely alutaceous, 

 with rather deep dense punctures, those of the elytra being 

 denser, while on the abdomen they are obsolete ; head quadrate, 

 having a space riuming lengthwise without any punctures ; 

 thorax subquadrate ; the elytra one-third longer than the 

 thorax. 



Ljength — '^\ mill. 



Localities,— SiRm, Japan, Persia, Egypt, Algeria, Prance, 

 Adelaide. 



Qjjs^ — This insect is probably cosmopolitan. 



