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R. Pale basai markings not confined to extrême base . . villosa. 

 RR. Pale basai markings confined to extrême base. 

 S. Submedian pale fascia dilated only towards suture. 

 m. Dark basai part almost twice the size of dark sub- 



apical part Frenchi, in part. 



mm. Dark basai part not much larger than dark sub- 



apical part kingensis. 



SS. Submedian pale fascia not dilated towards suture. 



T. Elytral punctures comparatively uniform .... militaris. 

 TI. Elytral punctures not comparatively uniform. 



U. Médian fascia continued to extrême margins . . meridioiialis . 



UU. Médian tascia no' so continued obliquefasciata, in pa.rt. 



Clerus cruciatus W.-S. Macl. (fig. 1). 



I hâve examined the Macleay Muséum type of this species, 

 hearing a label in the late W.-S. Macleay's writing « Clerus cruciatus 

 Capt King Australasia ». It was supposed by M. Blackburn to be a 

 Lemidia, but in his table of the Australian Cleridœ it ^vould be 

 placed in Orthrius : 



Its eyes are large, coarsely granulated and very slightly notched 

 in front just as they are in Clerus sepidchralis Westw., which has 

 been referred to Orthrius, and with which it is certainly congeneric. 



If the dark markings were originally black they hâve now faded 

 to a moderately dark brown. The head is not entirely dark 

 (asimpHed in the description) but only between the eyes; the dark 

 parts of the elytra consist of a longitudinal stripe on each, 

 commencing on the shoulder, completely divided near the middle 

 and then dilated beyond the middle and terminated before the apex; 

 seen from above this interrupted stripe appears to be marginal but 

 it is not really so. The resemblance of the pale portions of the elytra 

 to a cross is not particularly marked. — The length is 9 mill. 



Lemidia flavovaria Westw. (fig. 20 21) 



The type of this species was described as from King George's 

 Sound; there are two spécimens in the Macleay Muséum from 

 King's Sound (l) which possibly belong to it; they differ from the 

 description, however, in having the prothorax without a piceous 

 horse-shoe shaped mark (many species, however, vary in being 

 with or without a prothoracic blotch) and in having the abdomen 



(1) As possibly were the types, as the two localities hâve ofteu been 

 confounded. 



