Iphione hirta de Quatrefages 1866

Iphione hirta de Quatrefages, 1866 indeterminable Iphione hirta de Quatrefages, 1866: 272. Remarks. De Quatrefages (1866: 272) based this species on a damaged specimen from New Guinea, with some elytra lost; he thought there were 11 pairs of elytra, and thus that the species would be easily separated from all others in the genus, which have 13 pairs. He indicated that elytral margins were smooth, barely fimbriated. Pettibone (1986: 3) indicated that the type was lost and because it was inadequately described, it was regarded as indeterminable. We agree with her conclusion.