139 



(prosterno metasterno et in feraina segmento V Ijasali in 



medio sparsius subtilius, prosterni lateribus crassius) punctu- 



lato. 

 Maris segmento ventrali apicali late leviter emarginato, 



feminpe truncato. Long., 15 1. ; lat., 5 J — -6 1. 

 This species is clistinguisliable from all others known to me of 

 the genus by the elytra being scarcely sinuate behind the 

 shoulders ; in S. maciiJaria, Don., the elytral sinuation is slight, 

 but in the present insect it is less marked still. I have seen two 

 males and two females ; both the former have the apical ventral 

 segment bright red, and one of them has the penultimate red 

 and the antepenultimate spotted with red, while the other has 

 merely the penultimate spotted with red ; of the females one has 

 the hind body entirely black while the other has the apical seg- 

 ment spotted. The female with the hind body entirely black has 

 the prothorax also entirely black, in the other three examples 

 before me at least the hinder part of the lateral margin of the 

 prothorax is red. 



W. Australia ; taken by J. C. F. Johnson, Esq. 

 >S'. imperator, Thoms. There can be no doubt, I think, that this^ 

 is another name for ;S'. Jliirrayi, Gemm. and Har., which was 

 substituted in 1869 for *S'. trifasciafa, Murr., a preoccupied name.. 

 Thomson's name was published in 1878, and therefore becomes a 

 synonym. 



TEXEBRIOXID.^:. 



CEDIOMORPHA. 



C. australis, Black b. In describing this species (Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S.A., 1887, p. 272) I accidentally omitted to state the size; 

 it is, long., 2 1. ; lat., If 1. 



LIXDIA. 



L. aoi(/7istafa, Blackb. In describing this species (Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S.A., 1887, p. 275) I accidentally omitted to state the size; 

 it is, long., 21.; lat., J 1. 



PLATYDEMA. 



F. ohscitrum, Blackb. (Proc. L.S., N.S.W., 1888, p. 1,430). 

 Mr. G. C. Champion — a well-known English authority on the 

 Tenehrionidw — has kindly dra^^^n my attention to the fact that 

 this was a pre-occupied name ; I therefore propose T. Cliamjnoni 

 as a substitute. 



PHYTOPHAGA. 



Frasonot'iLS iiiorhiUosus, Chap. This name having l)een preoc- 

 cupied by Mr. Baly, I propose Chapuisi as a substitute. 



CRYPTOCEPIIALUS. 



C. consors, Boisd. I have recently seen an example of this 



