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A A. — Surface of eyes more opaque, very con- 

 spicuously facetted. 

 B. — Elytral intertices, infer se, equal or nearly 

 so. 

 C. — The pronotuin unicolorous. 



D. — The pronotum scarcely punctulate granarius, Linn. 

 DD. — The pronotum closely and some- 

 what strongly punctulate - - frenchi, Black. 

 CC. — The pronotum bicoloi-ous - - - lividus, Oliv. 

 BB. — Some of the elytral interstices tuber- 

 culate or more elevated than the rest. 

 C. — The pronotum closely and evenly punc- 

 late. 

 D. — The alternate elytral interstices non- 



tuberculate - - - - victoriae, Black. 



DD. — The alternate elytral interstices 



tuberculate - - - - suberosus, Blackb. 



CC. — Pronotum punctured neither closely 

 nor evenly. 

 D. — The alternate elytral interstices 



strongly tuberculate - - insignior, Blackb. 



DD. — The alternate elytral interstices 

 not tuberculate. 

 E. — Pronotum nitid. 



F. — Pronotuin unicolorous - baldiensis, Blackb. 

 FF. — Pronotum margined with 



testaceous- - -callabonensis, Blackb. 



EE.^ — Pronotum opaque - - lindensis, Blackb. 



A. HOWiTTi, Hope. 



This species was described very briefly in 1846, and attributed 

 to Victoria, and the next year its author described a species from 

 Tasmania (under the name tasmaniae) in almost exactly the same 

 words. In 1859 de Harold (Berl. Zeit.) reported the two species 

 identical, but in 1861 {/oc. «'/.) stated that he had examined 

 specimens (emanating from Hope himself) in Chevrolat's collec- 

 tion and had fovmd that so far from being identical they had 

 absolutely nothing in common ("durchaus nichts gemein"). In 

 Tr.R.S. S.A. (1892, p. 209), I quoted de Harold's earlier 



