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the British Museum) and a co-type (now in the South Aus- 

 tralian Museum), and these have rather thin antennae ; the 

 female has considerably stouter antennae, although no joint is 

 conspicuously flattened, but a few of them are not quite 

 cylindrical in section. Structurally the species appears to be 

 a Pseudolycus, and I have no hesitation in referring it to that 

 genus ; it is to be noted that according to Blackburn's generic 

 table the male of P. haemopterus would be referred to 

 Copidita, and the female to Pseudolycus. The present species 

 mav be readily distinguished from all others of the genus 

 by its shining glabrous prothorax, with three large depres- 

 sions: a medio- basal one and a large one towards each side 

 near apex, each of the latter encroached upon by a conspicuous 

 black elevation ; the apical joint of the antennae is semi- 

 double, with the tip paler (sometimes not by much) than the 

 base, the elytral suture (including that of the co-type) is 

 narrowly black from the base to well beyond the middle. It 

 is (for the genus) singularly constant in colour, of thirty- 

 eight specimens before me (three others are noted as a variety, 

 however), the only variations being to a slight degree in the 

 tips of the antennae and in the lower parts of the basal 

 joints : but one Tasmanian specimen has the base of the pro- 

 notum obscurely infuscated. The species is widely distributed, 

 specimens under examination being from New South Wales 

 (Dorrigo, Ben Lomond, Tamworth, Forest Reefs, and 

 National Park), Victoria (Jameson), and Tasmania (Laun- 

 ceston, Devonport, and Ulverstone). 



Var. pictipes, n. var. Three specimens (including both 

 sexes, taken by Mr. Carter at National Park) differ from the 

 common form in having the tip of the antennae no paler than 

 the basal part (and in consequence the semidoubling less con- 

 spicuous), the suture no darker than the rest of the elytra, 

 and all the tibiae pale except at their tips ; they are also 

 rather more conspicuously pilose between the eyes. 



Pseudolycus vitticollis, Macl. (formerly Ananca). 

 There are two specimens of this species (including the 

 type) in the Australian Museum, and they are of one sex 

 (apparently female). The species belongs to that section of 

 the genus containing hilar is and carteri, and in general 

 appearance the specimens are like rather broad ones of the 

 latter, but it differs in having the prothorax distinctly wider, 

 the median vitta almost twice the width, and terminated 

 before the apex ; on one specimen the dark lateral marking 

 on each side appears as a narrow margin just visible from 

 above (this specimen is presumably the type) ; but on the 

 other there is a conspicuous black vitta or macula on each 



