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represent a variety. They hâve the four tubercles at summit of 

 posterior declivily miich larger and moce acute Ihari in any ol" Ihe 

 above noted spécimens, but the other tubercles and the cosUr are 

 much less proininent, and the punctures on abrasion are seen to 

 be smaller. The sh.i[)e ol" the elytra, however a l'ather unusual one 

 for Leptops, is the saine. 



Variety B. 



Four spécimens from Forest Réels may represent another variety, 

 they are about lîve Unes in length, the large elytral tubercles almost 

 as distinct as in the variety A, but the smalles ones and the costae 

 more pronounced than in the typical form. The prothoracie impres- 

 sion and the elytral punctures are also unusually large. 



Leptops puellaris Pasc. 



Described as from Bathurstin Queensland. There is a Bathurst in 

 New South Wales but not in Queensland (1). The eyes are strongly 

 at variance with the other species of Leptops and puellaris will pro- 

 bably be removed from that genus. 



Leptops acerbus Pasc. 



There are two species before me either of which may be acerhus. 

 One of them (without locality) was identified by me as' acerhus from 

 the description; the other, from W. Australia, was subsequently 

 obtained on loan from M. George Masters; there are also two spé- 

 cimens of the latter species in the Australian Muséum from Cham- 

 pion Bay. Both species bave the breast feebly armed, a character 

 not mentioned by Pascoe. 



In the spécimen without locality (which unfortunately is very 

 badly abraded) the eyes are more ovate and with much finer facets 

 than in the other, the intermediate carina) do not end abruptly 

 (as they do in the other) and the elytra are truly spinose, the inner 

 row having eight, middle row four, aud outer row six spines. This 

 spécimen measures eight lines. The ones with W. Australian labels 

 vary from six to nine lines and the elytral tubercles are much less 

 acute (especially in the female, the sex described by Pascoe) whilst 

 in the second row in the three spécimens before me there are never 

 more than two, and usually but one, there is also a small tubercle 

 atthe junction of the third and seventh interstices which is absent 

 in the other species. 



(1) Ihave, howevei", a specimeu tïom Tauibouriue iu Queensland. 



