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pulchra, Blackb. : I.e., p. 76. N.S. Wales; Vict. 

 litoralis, Lea: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., 1907, p. 168. 

 Tas. ; King Island. 

 Oxacis, Lee: New Sp. Col., 1866, p. 165; Blackb.: Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 1899, p. 78. 



australis, Boi. (Oedemera, 4402); Blackb.: I.e., p. 78. 



S. Austr. ; Vict. 

 lateralis, Macl. : Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1887, p. 



325 (Ananca). Q'land. 

 zietzi, Blackb.: I.e., 1895, p. 56 (Ananca): 1899, p. 79. 



S. Austr. 

 inquisitor, Blackb.: I.e., p. 80. N.-W. Austr. 

 ornatipennis, Blackb. : I.e., p. 80. N.-W. Austr. 

 caviceps, Blackb.: I.e., p. 81. N.-W. Austr. 

 linearis, Blackb. : I.e., p. 82. W. Austr. 

 Oedemera, Oliv. : Entom., iii., 1795, No. 50. 

 bivittata, Boi. ( ' Ananca , 4403). Austr. 

 brevicornis, Boi. (Ananca, 4404). Austr. 



PSEUDOLYCUS. 



Several species of this genus are abundant in Australia 

 and Tasmania, and vary in colour in exactly the same ways 

 as species of Metriorrhynchus and Triehalus, of the Mala- 

 codermidae, do, and with which they are frequently associated 

 on flowering shrubs ; the exoskeleton is also somewhat soft 

 as in the Malacodermidae, so that the apparent width of 

 specimens appears to be subject to alteration as the specimens 

 dry up. Several species of similarly-coloured longicornes may 

 also be found in their company. As the Malacodermidae are 

 usually much more abundant than the others, it is to be pre- 

 sumed that with the Pseudolyci, etc., the resemblance is a 

 protective one. In consequence of the great variation in 

 colour and size several varietal forms have been named as 

 distinct species, and several varieties have been noted by 

 Champion and Blackburn. The colours of the new species 

 have been described as they were found on the types, but it 

 is very probable that, as with all others of which I have seen 

 long series, they are variable, and not to be too much 

 depended upon. 



PSEUDOLYCUS HAEMORRHOIDALIS, Fab. 



Var. atratus, Guer. (luctuosus, Boi.). 



Var. cinctus, Guer. 



Var. marginatus, Guer. 



Var. rvfipennis, Cart. 



This is the most variable and abundant species of the 

 genus in Tasmania, but it occurs also in New South Wales, 



