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Anatisis laminosus, Newm., Ooldea. 



Aposites lanaticollis, Blackb., Kingunyah. 



Uracanthus albatus, Lea, Leigh Creek. 



U. ater, Lea, Ooldea. 



Pempsamacra dispersa, Newm., Parachilna. 



Ancita fasciculata, Blackb., Ooldea. 



A. varicornis, Germ., Orroroo, Parachilna. 



Symphyletes fumatus, Pasc, Clayton Creek. 



Penthea pardalis, Newm. 

 PI. xxxvi., fig. 84. 

 The specimen figured represents a slight variety of the 

 species commonly labelled as pardalis in Australian collec- 

 tions ; but the original description would fit many species of 

 the genus. Ooldea. 



P. picta, Pasc, Ooldea. 



MlCROTRAGUS. 



In Group III. Par men ides, Microtragus, and its close 

 allies are thus dealt with by Lacordaire (35) : — 



Antennes rapprochees a leur base. 

 Dernier art. de tous les palpes ou des max. seuls 



triangulaire Stychus 



Dernier art. des palpes normal ; prothorax 

 tubercule sur les cotes. 

 Elytres ovalaires, arrondies en arriere ... Microtragus 



Elytres tres-attenuees et epineuses Ceroegidion 



Antennes plus ou moins distantes a leur base ... Athemistus 



No doubt he had but few species and specimens under 

 examination, as the character noted for Stychus is a sexual 

 one, the male having the apical joint of each palpus consider- 

 ably dilated to the apex, 60 as to be triangular; this is also 

 the case with 31. mormon, and in several other species of 

 Microtragus, and in all the species of that genus before me 

 (where I can be certain of the sexes) the apical joint is more 

 or less variable sexually; Stychus, therefore, cannot be 

 maintained, as it was proposed solely upon this character, 

 the species, amycteroides, having been previously correctly 

 referred to Microtragus. Nor is the rounding of the apex of 

 the elytra to be relied upon, as on several species the apices 

 are conspicuously produced (although far from being spine- 

 like as on Ceroegidion). The main character of the table is 

 also unreliable, as in Athemistus hoiritti the antennae are 

 much closer together than in other species of Athemistus, and 

 more like those of Microtragus ; Athemistus^ however, is 

 otherwise distinct. 



(35) Gen. Coleopt,, ix., p. 263. 



