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Neocuris Mastersi M'Ac\.=zStigmodera liliputana Thorns. =.S'. 

 ocularis Kerr. — I have long had little doubt but that the first- 

 named species from Gayndah (of which I have a specimen, 

 identified by Masters, from Gosford, N.S.W.) was a Stigmodera. 

 Macleay's name being the older, a difficulty arises, since S. 

 Mastersi is already a nom. prseocc. There remains the alternative 

 of using Thomson's name, S. liliputana Macl. {7iec Thorns.) Mr. 

 Blackburn has already pointed out the synonymy of *S'. liliputana 

 Thoms., with S. ocularis Kerr.(Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 

 1900, p.42). 



Stigmodera uniformis Kerr.=>S'. grapliisura Thoms.— I have 

 not seen Thomson's type, but it is scarcely possible to doubt this 

 synonymy. I have specimens from Sydne}^, and from the Blue 

 Mountains, which have been compared with Kerremans' type, 

 and which also exactly fit Thomson's description. Thomson's 

 publication was the earlier. 



Stigmodera pallidipennis Blackb.=*S'. mustelamajor Thoms.= 

 ^S'. gihhosa Macl. — It appears to me that Mr. Blackburn's species 

 is but a well marked local variety of *S'. mustelamajor Thoms., so 

 far as the less widened prothorax goes; but the colouring is so 

 variable in this species, especially in the metallic markings of the 

 prothorax, that little can be deduced from this. I have speci- 

 mens under the first name from South Australia; and of the 

 second, from Queensland, given me by Mr. G. Masters. I have 

 seen specimens also from the Blue Mountains, N.S.W. Of the 

 identity of <S*. mestelamajor Thoms., with S. gihhosa Macl., there 

 is no doubt. 



Stigmodera suhpura Blackb.^^S'. postica Thoms. — I have speci- 

 mens of this, taken by myself in Sydney, and kindly identified 

 by Mr. Blackburn as aS'. stchpura, which exactly correspond to 

 Thomson's description. In some specimens the " tache noire 

 posterieure " is absent. Thomson's name has the precedence. 



Stigmodera vigilans is ?zo^ a synonym of aS'. rectifasciata Saund.5 

 as suggested by Mr. Blackburn (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., 

 1900, p.42). I have specimens of S. vigilans Kerr., compared 

 with type, taken in the Blue Mountains; while S. rectifasciata 



