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DIPLOCOTES FOVEICOLLIS, Oll. 
Mr. Clark has taken four specimens of this species, about 
the Swan River, associated with the preceding species. Two 
of them have the elytra considerably darker than in Victorian 
specimens. 
TENEBRIONIDAE. 
ALPHITOPHAGUS BIFASCIATUS, Say. 
A. pictus, Menetr. 
A. populi, Redt. 
A. quadripustulatus, Steph. 
This species has been seen in countless thousands in wheat 
stacks at North Geelong, although it has apparently not been 
previously recorded from Australia. For references, etc., see 
Junk, Col., Cat., Pars. 28, p. 382; where it is recorded as 
from Europe and North America; but it is probably almost 
world-wide in distribution. 
LATHETICUS ORYZAE, Waterh. 
This species has been taken at wheat stacks in New South 
Wales (Barellan and Enfield); it does not appear to have 
een previously recorded as Australia. For references see 
Junk, l.c., p. 393. 
THORICTOSOMA, n.g. 
ad wide, bilobed in front, the lobes partially over- 
n Mandibles 
short, stout, notched at tips. Mentum large, convex, con- 
cealing labial palpi. Two joints of maxillary palpi exposed, 
: : t 
s 
abdomen ; episterna rather wide, but with indistinct sutures. 
Abdomen with first segment once and one-half the length of 
Second, and the length of fifth, third slightly shorter than 
Second and longer than fourth. Legs short; front coxae 
lightly separated, the middle ones more widely, the hind ones 
Still more widely; femora unarmed, tibiae spinose near base, 
the front pair dilated, with a strong tooth near base separated 
from one near apex by a deep notch; tarsi thin, hind ones 
four-jointed, the others five-jointed ; claws small and simple. 
Apterous. 
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