382 Mr. A. M. Lea's Notes on 



joints more or less diluted with red) and the legs, black ; 

 its head is mostly black, its prothorax is darker than usual 

 but with normal markings, and its elytra have the two 

 fasciae represented by obscure spots and still more obscure 

 stains. 



In Masters' catalogue the species appears both as being 

 distinct (6407) and as a synonym oi gigas (6417). Suffrian 

 describes asgigas, Oliv., a species appearing in the catalogue 

 under ruhiginosus, Boi. (6431). Unfortunately I have not 

 Olivier's original description of gigas for comparison. 



Prionopleura cognata, Saund. 



The colour of this species is variable to a certain extent ; 

 the black markings of the elytra (never sharply defined) are 

 occasionally absent ; in the males the legs are frequently 

 almost entirely black, whilst in the females they are often 

 entirely red. 



Rah. Tasmania : Huon River, Hobart, Mt. Wellington, 

 Launceston ; N. S. Wales : Sydney, Blue Mountains. 



Prionopleura erudita, Blackb. 

 (Plates XXIII, XXIV, figs. 58, 122, 123.) 



The maculate femora render this species unusually 

 distinct. The male (unknown to Blackburn) differs in 

 being smaller with the dark markings covering a greater 

 portion of the upper-surface ; the antennse are longer and 

 some (in the only male I have seen both antennse are 

 broken) of the joints are darker. 



Rah. S. Australia. 



Three specimens from Brisbane appear to represent a 

 variety of this species, in all of them the prothoracic U is 

 very indistinct although traceable, and the elytral markings 

 instead of being sharply defined are feeble piceous blotches 

 only in two and entirely absent in the other; in all three 

 the two terminal joints of the antennse (instead of the 

 terminal one only) are dark. The sculpture and femora, 

 however, are as given for erudita. 



Aporocera apicalis, Saund. 



I have the sexes of this species from N, W. Australia ; * 



* There are specimens in the Macleay Museum from King's 

 Sound (N. W. Australia) ; Wide Bay, Port Denison and Mackay 

 (Queensland). 



