﻿art. 
  14 
  THE 
  BEETLE 
  FAMILY 
  PSEUDOMORPHIDAE 
  NOTMAN 
  25 
  

  

  SILPHOMORPHA 
  VICINA 
  Castelnau 
  

  

  New 
  South 
  Wales 
  (Hy 
  Edwards 
  Coll.).— 
  Coll. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  

   Hist. 
  

  

  SILPHOMORPHA 
  FALLAX 
  Westwood 
  

  

  South 
  Australia 
  (Hy 
  Edwards 
  Coll.) 
  (3) 
  ; 
  New 
  South 
  Wales, 
  

   Australia 
  (Edwards 
  Coll.) 
  (2) 
  ; 
  Mount 
  Lofty. 
  South 
  Australia 
  

   (Lea): 
  Tintinara, 
  under 
  bark. 
  July 
  1, 
  1887, 
  Tepper 
  (Lea).— 
  Coll. 
  

   Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  

  

  Genus 
  SPHALLOMORPHA 
  Westwood 
  

  

  No 
  new 
  species 
  could 
  be 
  distinguished 
  in 
  the 
  material 
  at 
  hand 
  in 
  

   this 
  genus 
  and 
  no 
  complete 
  descriptions 
  are 
  given. 
  The 
  species 
  are 
  

   somewhat 
  more 
  easily 
  separated 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  genera. 
  In 
  the 
  

   following 
  synopsis 
  the 
  species 
  marked 
  with 
  an 
  asterisk 
  are 
  those 
  

   known 
  from 
  the 
  original 
  descriptions 
  only, 
  not 
  being 
  identified 
  in 
  

   the 
  material 
  at 
  hand. 
  

  

  KEY 
  TO 
  SPECIES 
  OF 
  GENUS 
  SPHALLOMORrHA 
  WESTWOOD 
  

  

  1. 
  Color 
  brilliant 
  metallic 
  green 
  with 
  purple 
  or 
  violet 
  reflections. 
  

  

  * 
  speciosa 
  Pascoe. 
  

   Color 
  not 
  brilliant 
  metallic 
  green 
  2 
  

  

  2. 
  Elytra 
  without 
  discal 
  or 
  sutural 
  maculae 
  or 
  vittae 
  3 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  discal 
  or 
  sutural 
  maculae 
  or 
  vittae 
  8 
  

  

  3. 
  Elytra 
  without 
  basal 
  and 
  apical 
  pale 
  fasciae 
  decipiens 
  Westwood. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  basal 
  and 
  apical 
  pale 
  fasciae 
  4 
  

  

  4. 
  Elytra 
  finely 
  rugose. 
  Thorax 
  entirely 
  pale. 
  Elytral 
  fasciae 
  wider. 
  

  

  * 
  fiavicollis 
  MaeLeay. 
  

   Elytra 
  smooth, 
  shining 
  5 
  

  

  5. 
  Lateral 
  pale 
  vittae 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  submarginal. 
  Thorax 
  black, 
  with 
  narrow 
  

  

  niceous 
  margin 
  * 
  marginata 
  Castelnau. 
  

  

  Lateral 
  pale 
  vittae 
  marginal 
  6 
  

  

  6. 
  Thoracic 
  disk 
  entirely 
  red 
  nitidiiloides 
  Guerin. 
  

  

  Thoracic 
  disk 
  not 
  entirely 
  red 
  7 
  

  

  7. 
  Thoracic 
  disk 
  red 
  with 
  two 
  broad 
  black 
  vittae 
  picta 
  Castelnau. 
  

  

  Thoracic 
  disk 
  entirely 
  black 
  ornata 
  MaeLeay. 
  

  

  8. 
  Elytra 
  without 
  discal 
  maculae 
  or 
  vittae 
  9 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  discal 
  maculae 
  or 
  vittae 
  17 
  

  

  9. 
  Elytra 
  more 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining, 
  scarcely 
  at 
  all 
  alutaceous 
  10 
  

  

  Elytra 
  less 
  shining, 
  distinctly 
  alutaceous 
  12 
  

  

  10. 
  Elytra 
  with 
  a 
  common 
  basal 
  pale 
  reddish, 
  triangular 
  macula 
  which 
  includes 
  

  

  scutellum 
  * 
  discoidalis 
  Castelnau. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  not 
  thus 
  maculate 
  11 
  

  

  11. 
  Elytra 
  with 
  common, 
  nearly 
  round, 
  pale 
  macula 
  on 
  posterior 
  half. 
  

  

  * 
  guttif 
  era 
  Castelnau. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  common 
  macula 
  median 
  in 
  position 
  and 
  produced 
  in 
  a 
  point 
  

  

  toward 
  scutellum 
  guttigera 
  Newman. 
  

  

  12. 
  Thorax 
  very 
  broad, 
  about 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long. 
  Elytra 
  with 
  com- 
  

  

  mon 
  cordiform 
  pale 
  macula 
  * 
  cordifer 
  Blackburn. 
  

  

  Thorax 
  narrower, 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long 
  13 
  

  

  13. 
  Thorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  with 
  conspicuous 
  pale 
  margins 
  14 
  

  

  Thorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  without 
  or 
  with 
  very 
  narrow 
  pale 
  margins 
  15 
  

  

  