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concern us, since the second aggregate of that group has not been 
as Australian. Beyond this I iid em beider d followed 
YasoRhéi, as his principal (so far as con the Australian 
e.g., tabulates the true Anthribides as of oblong or oval, —con- 
*rasted with cylindrie,—form, but in the detailed pn. tit of 
their genera calls some of them “almost cylindric,” “ subcylin- 
dric,” and even unreservedly “cylindric.”] I have adopted in 
the place of those characters others which Lacordaire treats as 
subordinate to them, founded on (a) the relation between the 
upper and lower edge of the rostral scrobe, in the one case the 
lower edge protruding outwards further than the upper edge or 
the upper edge cutting into m un margin of the rostrum, so 
that the scrobe is visible from above ; in the other case the upper 
edge not cutting into the isbérel er of the rostrum and the 
lower edge not protruding outwards beyond the upper, and the 
scrobe ee being entirely invisibla from above (5) the 
form of th 
Of the ri genera known as Australian I have been able 
to include in the following tabulation all except ns 
is a genus characterised by Mr. Jordan (Ent. Z. Stett, 1895, p- 
scr 
without seeing it. It is founded on a species of moderately large 
size, with spinose elytra. 
Tabulation of the Anthribid eie known to be Australian:— 
A. ee ee inserted on the be of the ros 
A transverse carina (independent of - Ape on the pronotum, 
C. Prosternum and mesosternum elevated and 
contiguous ii .. Bythoprotus. 
CC. Pro reed and mesosternum not as in 
Byt 
D. name tint scrobes visible Hom ‚ER and not 
basal vertical and suleiform. 
E. Eyes small and very e ongate : 
F. Carina of pronotum strungly arched .. Ancylotropis. 
FF. Carina of pe straight .. QGenmethila. 
EE. Eyes not as in the ing two genera. 
F. "be pror proximate on mn the forehe .. Litocerus, 
n Carina of 1 RM straight ... .. Ethneca. 
GG. Carina of pronotum strongly arched ... Commista, 
DD. Rostral isible above unless 
they are basal vertical M suleiform. 
E. Eyes entire or nearly so, 
