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but not always clothed with denser scales than elsewhere; in 

 some specimens the whole of the prothoracic scales are of a 

 uniformly muddy-ochreous colour; in others it is densely clothed 

 with ochreous scales of various shades, from almost white to dark 

 brown. The scales on the elytra are also subject to very great 

 variation; they are occasionally rather dense and almost uniform 

 in colour, sometimes obscuring the punctures, these appearing 

 very small and in narrow grooves; in otliers they are uniformly 

 muddy-brown, a transverse fascia of ochreous scales across the 

 middle excepted; in two specimens the fascia is represented by a^ 

 small spot on each side; on others the scales are almost uniformly 

 sooty-black; others are irregularly mottled witli black, sooty, 

 ochreous, white and brown scales. The clothing of the under 

 surface also varies considerably, both in colour and density, 

 on many becoming ochreous, and on a number almost uniformly 

 leaden or sooty; on a specimen lent to me by the late 

 Herr Faust the two basal segments are densely clothed with 

 snowy scales, except an obscure spot on the side of each; the 

 scales on the three apical segments are tinged with ochreous, 

 each of them with a small brown spot at the sides; there is also 

 a large brown blotch common to the third and fourth; on this 

 specimen also the legs are feebly ringed with ochreous, white, 

 and brown scales. A specimen in the Australian Museum is 

 densely and almost unifoimly clothed on the upper surface with 

 almost snowy-white scales. Perhaps the most noticeable differ- 

 ence in form is that of the prothorax; it has usually a somewhat 

 triangular outline, but many specimens have the middle only a 

 little narrower than the base. The prothoracic granules are 

 usually massed together in a somewhat triangular space in the 

 middle; occasionally there is a transverse patch of them near 

 base; sometimes, but rarely, a few are on the sides. The scutellura 

 varies slightly in length and width. The elytral punctures 

 appear to be different in size on different specimens, but this is 

 more apparent than real, and is caused principally by the com- 

 parative density of the clothing; the suture is often granulate to 

 summit of posterior declivity; sometimes the granules scarcely 



