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Lyraphora, Kraatz (including Platedelosis). 



The type of Lyraphora was given as obliquata; the 

 :type of Platedelosis as bassii. The two supposed genera were 

 widely separated by Kraatz, the firstnamed being placed in 

 his first group having the "mesosternal process narrow, greatly 

 elongated and acuminate''; the other in his second group 

 having ."mesosternal process wide, subdilated, apex acuminate 

 or rounded-." As a matter of fact, in the female of obliquata 

 the process (fig. 185) is much the same as in bassii (fig. 186) ; in 

 the male it is somewhat narrower, but it is quite distinctly 

 wider than long, and to place the species in the first group 

 is absurd. 



Both species have the clypeus of the same shape, club 

 of antennas sexually variable in size, scapulae large and pro- 

 jected inwards between prothorax and elytra, abdomen of 

 male somewhat flattened along middle but not grooved, and 

 front tibiae of male armed at apex only. In the female of 

 obliquata the front tibiae of the male are tridentate, in the 

 female of bassii they are bidentate ; but this alone is not sufii- 

 ■cient to warrant their generic separation. 



44. bassii, White (2585). Q., N.S.W. 



45. obliquata, Westw. (2561); Kraatz, Deutsche Ent. 



Zeit., 1880, p. 191. Q., N.S.W. 

 gratiosa, Blanch. (2560). 

 ocellata, Macl. (2562). 



46. VELUTINA, Macl. (2586); Lea, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. , 



1911, p. 465. Q. 



47. vittivaria, Lea, n. sp. Q. 



Ablacopus, Thorns, (including Anthracopharis). 



48. ater, Schoch, Gen. et Spec. Cetonidensammlung, 



Zurich, 1895, p. 140. Q. 



49. t^niatus, Schoch, Mitt. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., ix., p. 381; 



Ent. Nachr., xxii., p. 199. Q. 



50. trapezifer, Thorns. (2564). Q., N.S.W. 



Micropcecila, Kraatz. 



51. cincta, Don. (2569); Froggatt, Proc. Linn. Soc, 



N.S.W., 1896, p. 75. N.S.W., W.A. 

 circumcincta, Dej. 

 fulvocincta, Blanch, 

 var. breweri, Janson (2568). 

 var. melancholica, Lea, n. var. 



