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SUBFAMILY MOLYTIDES. 



Aphela phalerioides, Pasc. 



This species was doubtfully recorded as from Queensland. 

 Some specimens from Adelaide (Macleay Museum) and Cape 

 Leeuwin and Roebuck Bay (British Museum) agree with the 

 description and differ from helopoides, as phalerioides is stated 

 to do. They also differ from that species in having the elytral 

 punctures not perfectly regular on some of the interstices, 

 especially on the third and seventh. Both sexes have the 

 front tibiae produced at the outer apex, but in addition the 

 male has the basal-joint of each of the front tarsi strongly 

 produced externally. 



SUBFAMILY GONIPTERIDES. 



Oxyops hyperoides, Pasc. ( 'Gonipterus ) . 

 0. simplex, Lea. 

 There is a specimen in the collection of the late Rev. T. 

 Blackburn labelled as Gonipterus hyperoides, and I think 

 correctly so. The species, however, is not a Gonipterus, but 

 an Oxyops, and has been redescribed by me under the name 

 of . simplex. 



Oxyops pallida, Lea. 



. There are eleven specimens in the British Museum that 

 probably belong to this species. They are f om Alexandria 

 (Northern Territory) and marked as having been taken on 

 young shoots of the "Desert Box." They all have a sprink- 

 ling of ochreous meal that on the prothorax causes an appear- 

 ance as of three moderately distinct lines, and many of the 

 elytral punctures are filled with the meal.( 27 ) The elytra also 

 have numerous vague spots (distinct to the naked eye) caused 

 by the compacting together of a few large scales behind some 

 of the seriate punctures. (28) The specimens, with one excep- 

 tion, are slightly larger than the type, and two of them are 

 of a rather dark-brown. 



Oxyops obscura, Blackb. (formerly Medicasta). 



0. minuscula, Lea. 



The type of Medicasta obscura is in the Museum, and it 



is certainly an Oxyops, and also the species subsequently 



named by myself as 0. minuscula. Mr. Blackburn appeared 



to have some slight doubts as to its correct generic position, 



(27) The meal would be lost in alcohol, and the type was; 

 probably sent in that preservative to Mr. French. 



(28) Of these spots there is not a trace on the type. 



