226 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, VIII., 



tralia. I have to thank Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse for confirmation 

 of my opinion. 



Family TENEBRIONID^E. 



MORTCHUS HETEROMERUS King. 

 C^DIOMORPHA AUSTRALIS Blackb. 



I have recently examined the type of Morychus heteromerus* 

 King; in Masters' Catalogue appearing (number 1913) as a 

 Pedilophorus;\ it belongs to the Tenebrionidce and is identical 

 with C cediomvrvha aiistralis Blackb. J As M. heteromerus was 

 the prior name that must stand, but as King certainly referred 

 it to the wrong genus, and even family, the species must remain 

 under Ccedio?norpha.§ 



Family PYROCHROID^. 



Lemodes splendens, n.sp. 



(Plate xviii., fig. 9). 



Red; elytra with a broad purplish-blue fascia, mesosternum 

 and appendages black, tip of antennae and of palpi and parts 

 of the tarsi of a dingy red. Length 5-5^ mm. 



#a&. — Walcha, N.S.W. (W. W. Froggatt). 



The shape, punctures and pubescence are much as in L. Master si 

 and L. coccinea. The elytral fascia occupies rather more than 

 one third of the surface, its hind margin is irregularly concave 



* The type is in the Australian Museum, and bears a blue label in the late 

 Eev. R. L. King's writing. 



t No authority is quoted for referring it to Pedilophorus. 



I Of Catdiomorpha australis I have specimens which were so named by Mr. 

 Blackburn and Mr. G. C. Champion, and which agree perfectly with Mr. 

 Blackburn's description. 



§ King's original description, 11 words, is certainly insufficient for its 

 positive identification, but as the type is in good order, and I had the 

 authentically named specimens of C. australis with me at the time (the 

 second occasion when 1 examined it) of comparison, there can be no doubt 

 as to the correctness of the synonymy. 



