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VI. A Monograph of the Australian species of the 

 Coleopterous family Lycidae. Bj Chas. O. 

 Waterhouse. 



[Read 4th April, 1S77.] 



The numerous species of the family Lycidce added to the 

 National Collection during the last fe^w years have obliged 

 me to make a somewhat detailed examination of the group. 

 The present paper is the result of my study, so far as the 

 Australian species are concerned. The number of species 

 at present recorded from that continent is 14; to these 

 24 new species are noAv added, making a total of 38, but 

 of the described species seven are unknown to me. 



List of Species. 



Porrostoma erTthropterum, Er. 



„ rufipenne, Fabr. 



,, brevirostre, sp. n. 



„ laterale, Redt. 



„ abdominale, sp. n. 



„ elegans, sp. n. 



„ unifornie, sp. n. 



„ irrepulare, sp. n. 



„ textile, sp. n. 



„ russatum, sp. n. 



,, apicalc, sp. n. 



,, lineatum, sp. n. 



„ togatnm, sp. n. 



„ scalare, sp. n. 



„ fallax, sp. n. 



„ salebrosum, sp. n. 



Porrostoma haemorrhoidale, sp. n. 



„ plagiatum, sp. n. 



„ lugubre, sp. n. 



„ cinctnra, sp. n. 



„ clientulum, sp. n. 



„ inquiuulum, sp. n. 



„ dichronm, sp. n. 



,, lirabatum, sp. n. 



Trichalus flavopictns, sp. n. 

 ,, discoideus, Er. 

 „ ampliatus, sp. n. 

 „ sulcatus, sp. n. 

 „ serraticornis, Fabr. 

 Calochromus scutellaris, Er. 



„ Guerinii, MacLeay. 



Porrostoma, Casteln. 1830. 

 The following descriptions will, I think, be sufficient 

 to show that the length of the rostrum in these insects is 

 not of generic importance, and that therefore the genus 

 Metriorrhynchus (Guerin, 1838) cannot stand. All the 

 species have the costa of the elytra next the suture not 

 branching at the base, but parallel Avith the sutiu'e. 



* Thorax divided into seven areolets. 

 All the males of the species of this section (so far as 

 they are known to me) have the ])enultimate segment of 

 the abdomen divided in the middle nearly to the base by 

 a parallel-sided incision. (PL I. fig. 5.) 



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