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I have had under examination the following colour- varieties: — 



Va7\ A. — Median fascia almost white, apical spots wanting. 



Va7\ B. — Prothorax immaculate; median fascia almost white^ 

 apical spots absent, legs (except anterior tibise) black. 



Var. C. — Prothorax immaculate. 



Var. D. — Prothorax immaculate, apical spots wanting. 



Var. E. — Prothorax immaculate, apical spots wanting; leg.s^ 

 black, except anterior tibiae and inner portion of anterior femora. 



Var. F. — Elytra (except for the basal marking) entirely dark. 



Var. G. — Prothorax immaculate, elytra (except for the basal 

 markings) entirely dark. 



Var. H. — The same, except that the elytra have a decided 

 coppery-green gloss. 



Lemidia labiata, Gorham. 



Of fourteen specimens of this species under examination 

 scarcely two are alike in all details; the variety noted hy the 

 Rev. H. S. Gorham is perhaps less variable than the more typical 

 forms. Of these one specimen has the pale elytral vittae very 

 close to the suture, wide and continuous from base to apex, but 

 with a slight interruption at about the middle; one specimen 

 with a black prothorax, and another with a discal blotch only, 

 have each a very distinct and almost white transverse fascia just 

 beyond the middle and almost touching the sides. 



Lemidia sub.enea, Gorham. 

 A specimen from Mount Kosciusko has all the legs infuscate. 



CUPESID^^. 



CuPES VARiANS, n.sp. (See Supplementary Note on p. 513.) 



Plat, narrow, opaque. Of a rather dingy brown; elytra paler,. 

 in places feebly mottled ; abdomen and legs concolorous with 

 elytra. Head and prothorax densely and uniformly clothed 

 with round muddy-grey scales, almost entirely concealing 



