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but has the black basal fascia of the elytra contiuiious, instead of twice inter- 

 rupted to the base itself; it appears to be the commouest form of the species, and 

 extends from Cairns, in Qneensland, to Derby, in North-Western Australia. 



var. OBSCURICOLLIS var. nov. 



Ten specimens from Queensland (('ooktowu. Cairns, Bowen, and Gayndah) 

 and one from New South Wales (Dorrigo) may be considered as representing- 

 another variety, having- the dark prothoracic blotch ill-defined, and extended so 

 as to cover the whole surface except a narrow space at the apex, or an obscure 

 space in each front angle; each elytron has three reddish transverse spots or 

 fasciae: one subbasal, with a short medio-frontal extension, one postmedian, its 

 concave side towards the apex, the other and smaller one suliapical. The punc- 

 tures on the prothorax and elytra are variable ; to the naked eye the prothorax at 

 a glance appears entirely dark. 



EPISCAPHULA GUTTATIPENNIS Blackb. 



This species is structurally close to E. duplopunctata, but is slightly more 

 parallel-sided and with somewhat longer antennae ; the type, and a specimen from 

 Townsville, have identical pale elytral markings, which may be regarded as a 

 subbasal fascia broken up into four spots, a postmedian fascia, also broken up 

 into four spots, and a subapical fascia interrupted at the suture ; a somewhat 

 larger specimen, from Townsville, has smaller punctures and the postmedian 

 fascia only broken up into two sj)ots. 



EPISCAPHULA FOVEICOLLIS Blackb. 



On three specimens with the typical markings of this species (a cotype and 

 others from Charters Towers and Normanton), there are large punctures con- 

 gested into spaces on each side of the prothorax near the base and apex; on the 

 apical spaces the surface is flattened in two specimens, and very feebly depressed 

 on the other. A specimen, from the Stewart River, that appears to belong to 

 the species, has no medio-lateral spots on the prothorax, the medio-basal one is 

 distinctly bifid in front, the larger punctures are more generally distributed, 

 although fairly dense in the angles ; on the elytra the subapical spots are con- 

 joined to form a fascia continuous from side to side. 



EPISCAPHULA NIGRONOTATA sp. nov. 



Plate iv, fig. 2. 



Black; prothorax flavous, a large black spot on each side of the middle, the 

 two conjoined at base ; elytra flavous, a large black spot about scutellum conjoined 



