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and joint 11 flattened. In the $ all joints are rounded, not hol- 

 lowed beneath or flattened. 



A. apicalis, Blackb. — I cannot make out very definite distinc- 

 tions between some West Aus. specimens I have (which answer to 

 Blackburn's description) and the former species, except that the 

 eves are certainly less approximate in the £ 



A. Amoenus, Pasc. — The description was evidently taken from a 

 female, though Pascoe thought it a male (Jour. Ent., 1863. p. 46), 

 or he could scarcely have overlooked the strong sexual characters 

 shown (i.e., if the specimen sent from the British Mus., labelled 

 A. amoenus, Pasc, compared with type, is correctly named). In 

 this specimen the front tibiae are dentate on the inside, in the 

 middle, the mid and posterior tibiae are clothed with long, curly 

 cilia on the inside, the post tibiae being curiously flattened, 

 widened and strongly curved. The joints 6-8 of antennae have a 

 sharp triangular tooth on the inside apex, that does not occur in 

 the ? . The two apical joints are much narrower than the preceding. 

 Besides the British Mus. specimen (without locality label), I have 

 only one other rf specimen before me. This is on a card with a 

 . ? specimen, labelled ''Forest Reefs, A. M. Lea." 



A. nodicornis, Blacbk. — The $ specimens are very like those 

 of amoenus, but the 3rd antennal joint is of the same length as 

 the 4th, whereas in amoenus 3 is shorter than 4. The elytral punc- 

 tures are smaller in nodicornis. In the 3 the 7th joint oyf 

 antennae is widely produced, and the four apical joints are 

 evidently finer and smaller. 



A. Simplex mihi is also very close to both amoenus and nodicornis 

 so far as female specimens go, but it is usually smaller, with 

 much stronger and closer punctures on the head. In the cT joints 

 6-9 are hollowed beneath, and triangularly widened, but are not 

 produced at the apex, joints 10-11 are much finer, the 11th very 

 finely pointed. The hind angle of the prothorax is rather less 

 than 90 degt. The species tasmanicus, lineatus and plebejus may 

 !"• readily identified by colour, and more filiformed antennae. 

 In' A. tasmanicus the black colour nearly covers the elytra, only the 

 suture is distinctly yellow, soon shading off into the black. 



Apellatus simpler, n. sp. 



Elongate ovate, head and antennae black or piceous, the basal 

 joints of the latter ivd, prothorax and elytra reddish-yellow, the- 

 sides and apex of the latter narrowly black, underside red, with 

 apex of abdomen piceous. 



