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KiRKALDY has with justice complained of the indication, not des- 

 cription, given by Asiimead of tliis genus; tliis however does not 

 entitle him to claim the genus by a somewhat longer descrip- 

 tion. He also correctly points ont that Ashmead stated no type 

 for his genus. Kfrkaldy however has unfortunately given two 

 types; in the first référence (supra) at p. 354, he writes of E. hicincta 

 Ericiis. (( (the type of the genus) », to the second référence where 

 he proposes a new name he writes « type hyacinthus Kirk ». 



EURYMELOIDES VARIA. 



Earymela varia Walk., List. Hom., III. p. 644. (1851), 

 Eurynieloides hicincteUus Kirk., Rep. Exp. Stat. Uaw. Plant. Assoc, 



Pt. IX, p. 352 (1906). 



Hab. : Besides the locaUties given by Walker, theBrit. Muséum 

 possesses the species from Queensland, where it was collected l)y 

 M^ F.-P. DoDD. 



Eurymeloides ocellata. 



Eurymela ocellata Sign., Ann. Soc. Eut, Fi\, (2) VIII, p. 511, PL 



XVII, f. 13 (1850). 

 Eurymeloides cuinulosus Kmii., Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc., 



Pt. IX, p. 351 (1906). 



This is a variable species; the tegmina hâve the white basai lascia 

 either spotted with black or unicolorous. A similar reraark applies 

 to the snbapical fascia which sometimes encloses a large oval 

 transverse spot as in Signoret's figure, or is incomplète, or nar- 

 rowed into a unicolorous transverse fascia. The pale spots on the 

 commissure are ahvays présent. 



Hab. : West Australia; Freemantle (Brit. Mus.). N. S. Wales; 

 Sydney (Brit. Mus.). Queensland (F.-P. Dodd. — Brit. Mus.). 



It is probable that E. ornatus Kirk. may be a variety of this 

 species. 



Eurymeloides testaceus sp. n. — Head, pronotum, scu- 

 tellum, sternum and legs ochraceous, abdomen beneath pale stra- 

 mineous, scutellum a littledarker and more testaceous in hue than 

 pronotum ; head beneath pale testaceous; with dark wrinkles, a 

 narrow basai margin and the cheeks pale ochraceous, tarsi piceous; 

 tegmina black, the veins and the base pale testaceous, an indistinct 

 transverse fascia before middle which reaches disk ofclavus where its 

 margins are only visible, another fascia just before apical area prin- 

 cipally denoted by its margins, and three small spots on each side 

 of claval suture creamy-white ; scutellum with some longitudinal 

 dépressions on basai half, transversely impressed before apical area 



