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locality, Mount Kosciusko), and also more of the form for which I 

 proposed the name N. atripennis (from original locality, Mount 

 Buffalo). After examination of this new material, the differences 

 between IV. atripennis and N. froggatti so slight, that I am 

 unable now to consider it a distinct species; I, therefore, sink 

 it to the rank of a variety. The somewhat narrower form 

 (especially of prothorax), absence of a green elytral margin, and 

 less strongly developed humeral angles in N. atripennis, though 

 noticeable, do not seem of actual specific value. 



4. Notonomus phillipsi Castelnau. 



Trans. Hoy. Soc. Vict., 1868, p.212; Chaudoir, Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, 1874, vi., p. 580 ; Sloane, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1902, xxvii., p.279. 



It seems advisable to offer a description of the species which I 

 identify as N. phillipsi Cast. The name is an unfortunate one, 

 in view of the older N. philippi Newra.; but I do not venture to 

 change it, owing to the present state of the rules of nomenclature, 

 which seem to countenance as valid, names, no matter how 

 similar to older ones, if differing by a single letter. 



<J. Elongate-oval. Head black: prothorax olivaceous with wide 

 seneous-green margins; elytra dark bronze, with ninth interstice 

 and lateral channel green; femora piceous, apex of tibiae and 

 tarsi reddish. Prothorax subquadrate (4-6 x 5 mm.), depressed, 

 wider across base (3*9 mm.) than apex (3-5 mm.); sides obliquely 

 narrowed to base without sinuosity; basal angles subrectangular; 

 border wide and strongly reflexed towards base; posterior mar- 

 ginal puncture distant from base in lateral channel; lateral basal 

 impressions deep. Elytra truncate-oval (10*7 x 6-2 mm.), de- 

 pressed, strongly declivous to apex, lightly rounded (subparallel) 

 on sides, strongly striate; interstices convex, third 5-7-punctate, 

 tenth feebly developed near apex; lateral apical sinuosities well 

 developed ; basal border strongly dentate at humeral angles. 

 Intercoxal declivity of prosternum rather narrow and rounded in 

 middle, of mesosternum concave. Tarsi with fifth joint not 

 spinulose beneath. Length, 16-5-17-7; breadth, 5-7-6-2 mm. 



Hab. — Victoria: Bright (C. French). 



