BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 



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Atelicus iN.EQUALis, AVaterh.; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5U48. — I 

 have a specimen of this species from Frankford, Tasmania. The 

 metasternum is densely covered with fine silken hair gradually 

 thickening to scales on the sides and on the basal segment of the 

 abdomen. 



Atelicus ferrugineus, Waterh.; I.e. 5046. — I have four speci- 

 mens of this species, two from Braidwood and two from Armidale, 

 N.S.W. Only one specimen is 2| lines in length, and it is without 

 the whitish rings on the apices of the elytra; the smallest speci- 

 men is 1| lines, and has the rings very distinctly marked. The 

 two Armidale specimens were bred from a large Hymenopterous 

 gall on Acacia {longifolia 1). A. Tniniatus, Pasc, from Moreton 

 Bay is possibly synonymous. 



Atelicus atrophus, Pasc; I.e. No. 5044. — Pascoe records this 

 species from S. Australia as well as from Tasmania; I have a 

 specimen from Hillgrove, N.S.W. 



Atelicus variabilis, n.sp. 



Narrow, convex, subparallel and subopaque. Red ; head, 

 rostrum and sides of metasternum tinged with black. Upper 

 surface clothed with minute, rounded, semitransparent scales ; 

 prothorax with a median line of whitish scales joined to a white 

 basal stripe; elytra with a few pale scales about shoulders and 

 apex ; rostrum with griseous scales ; under surface (excepting 

 ajjical segment of abdomen) and legs with dense white scales, 

 tibipe ciliate beneath on anterior half. 



Sead large, a feeble impression between eyes, shallowlj' punctate. 

 Rostrum obsoletely punctate except at base and sides. Scape 

 minutely punctate, scarcely the length of two following joints 

 combined. ProUiorax almost equal in length and width; with 

 moderately large, rounded, shallow, irregular, squamose punctures; 

 apex narrower than base, sides rounded, base bisinuate. Scutelluni 

 small. Elytra feebly diminishing from base to near apex, slightly 

 but suddenly constricted just before the middle, apex feebly 

 emarginate ; each with ten distinct rows of rounded, scarcely 

 approximate punctui'es, each of which contains a glassy scale; 



