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from Cairns, differ in having scarcely visible ])rotboracic punctures, and legs 

 more brightly tiavous. A female, from Mount Tambourine, possibly belongs 

 to the species, but differs from normal females in having slightly larger punc- 

 tures on prothorax (although still small), and legs black, with the tarsi brown. 



Var. ? — Twelve specimens (Northern Queensland and Bundaberg, Black- 

 burn's collection; Cairns district, F. P. Dodd; and Kuranda, H. Hacker) are 

 so extremely close in general appearance to this species (they even differ sexually 

 in the colour of the head), that it seems undesirable to name them as distinct, 

 but they certainly have the eyes more distant, those of the male being as widely 

 separated as in the female of the typical form, and those of the female about 

 one-third more than in its female ; placing specimens side by side, the differences 

 are at once apparent. One male has the prothorax reddish, with its middle 

 infuscated. 



DITROPIDUS OPACICEPS sp. nov. 



$ Black; clypeus, labrum, basal half of antennje, palpi, and parts of 

 legs, more or less obscurely flavous or reddish. Glabrous. 



Head shagreened and with very minute punctures; median line feeble. 

 Eyes rather widely separated. Prothorax about thrice as wide as the median 

 length, sides strongly rounded ; punctures sparse and minute. Elytra subquad- 

 rate; with rows of fairly distinct punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly and 

 on the sides set in fairly deep stria?. Length, ((?$), 1-75-2 mm. 



2 Differs in being more robust, clypeus darker than labrum, and in the 

 usual particulars of the eyes, legs, and abdomen. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Sydney, Galston, Como. Queensland: Mount 

 Tambourine (A. M. Lea) ; Dalby (Mrs. F. IL Hobler) ; Bribie Island (H. 

 Hacker and Lea) — Type, /. 10930 in South Australian ]Museum; eotype, C/2323 

 in Queensland Museum. 



The outlines and general appearance are almost as in the preceding 

 species, but the prothorax is almost — on some specimens quite — impunctate, and 

 the distance between the eyes, sex for sex, is about twice as great ; the prothorax 

 and shagreened head readily distinguish the species from D. tranquillus. The 

 legs are sometimes entirely pale, but usually the femora, or at least the hind 

 ones, are deeply infuscated; the head could hardly be regarded as reddish, but 

 it is not of the deej) shining black of the prothorax. The prosternum and meta- 

 sternum are fairly densely punctate in the middle, the metasternum is shining 

 and sparsely punctate there. The distance between the eyes of the male is 

 about equal to the length of the five basal joints of antenna' ; in the female it is 

 about one-fourth more. The only specimen from ]\Iount Tambourine has darker 

 legs than usual, and the middle of its labrum is infuscated. 



GELOPTERA TEIRASPILOTA Lea. 

 A specimen of this species, from the Queensland National Park, has an 

 infuscate spot on the suture between the two large median spots, and these are 

 almost connected with the sides. 



