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elevated parts of the elytra entirely pale, so that there appear 

 to be four narrow infuscate vittae extending from near the 

 base to near the apex of each elytron ; but the basal half 

 of each lateral margin (not visible from above) is entirely 

 black. 



PSEUDOLYCUS WALLACEI, Lea. 



In the original description of this species the first joint 

 of the antennae was described as being "as long as the eye 

 and much shorter" {narrower, of course, should have been 

 used instead of shorter). The sutural costa on each elytron 

 diverges from the suture near the base, and curves round to 

 join in with the first discal costa at its base, and this char- 

 acter in itself is sufficient to distinguish it from all other 

 species known to me, but the clothing of the abdomen is also 

 very distinctive, and the eleventh joint of the antennae is not 

 semidouble. Mr. Carter took three specimens (at Acacia 

 Creek, in New South Wales) of the species, but they are all 

 considerably smaller than the type and all different in colour. 

 One of his specimens has the prothorax black, and elytra 

 black except for a reddish streak on each side, commencing 

 on the shoulder and ending on the side well beyond the 

 middle; the others have the elytra entirely reddish, and the 

 sides of the prothorax reddish with the dark discal portion 

 dilating to the base ; on one specimen the dark portion is 

 black, but on the other it has a conspicuous purplish gloss. 



Pseudolycus torridus, Blackb. 



Only the type of this species (now in the British Museum) 

 was known to Blackburn; but two, somewhat larger, speci- 

 mens were taken by Mr. Hacker at Brisbane (his No. 466). 

 The species is very distinct by the red middle of its pronotum 

 and by its continuously flattened antennal joints (after the 

 second) ; the eleventh joint is semidouble, but less conspicu- 

 ously so than in haemorrhoidcdis. There are also two speci- 

 mens of the species in the Australian Museum from Wide 

 Bay, and one of these has the median vitta of the pronotum 

 considerably enlarged and the black basal markings with 

 vermiculate encroachments of red. 



Pseudolycus hilaris, Blackb. (formerly Copidita). 



In his table of the Oedemeridae Blackburn separated 

 Copidita from Pseudolycus on account of the antennae, and 

 further divided Copidita into the typical and three sub- 

 sections ; of these subsection 1 consisted of but one species, 

 hilaris. Apparently of this species he had but two speci- 

 mens (and one sex, the male) before him : the type (now in 



