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the disc; such specimens frequently mate with specimens 

 having the prothorax immaculate. 



On the bodies drying the elytra curl up so that they 

 usually appear to be much narrower (especially in pinned 

 specimens) than the abdomen. They vary in colour from 

 green to purple, but the base is usually more or less 

 shining and frequently with a coppery gloss ; the greater 

 part of the elytra, however, is usually more or less opaque. 



The dark markings of the under surface also vary to a 

 considerable extent, in some specimens nearly all, in others 

 scarcely any, of the metasternum is black ; in some all the 

 abdominal segments are black at the sides, whilst in others 

 the five basal segments are clear at the sides ; the parts 

 more or less concealed by the elytra also vary. 



Three males from the Illawarra district have the greater 

 portion of all the femora pallid, also the lower surface of 

 the first and second joints of antennae, the metasternum 

 (except for a triangular space) and abdomen (except for 

 the apical segments) ; but at the sides of the abdomen in 

 two of them there are infuscate spots. On the head the 

 flavous frontal space is rather larger than usual; in one 

 of them it is connected with the base by an indistinct 

 infuscate streak, which widens out towards the base but 

 near it is suddenly constricted ; in the second specimen 

 the pallid basal space forms a rather narrow triangle whilst 

 in the third it is still narrower and very indistinct, 



A very distinct variety from S. Australia is represented 

 by two specimens in the Macleay Museum. These are 

 very small (6-7 mm.), have the head red except for an 

 interrupted black fascia between the eyes, the apical half 

 of the prothorax (but not the extreme apex) black ; the 

 apex of the femora, the tibiae, tarsi and antennae (basal 

 joints in parts paler) more or less dark ; and the elytra of 

 a dingy green. 



Hah. Queensland; N. S. Wales; Victoria; Tasmania; 

 S, and W. Australia. 



Telephorus flavipennis, Mad., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. 

 Wales, II, p. 264. {Fig. 171.) 



This species can be readily distinguished from imperialis 

 (which in many respects it closely resembles) by the 

 bicostate elytra and unicolorous antennae. 



Two specimens from the Tweed River diff'er from the 



