172 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's Revision, of the 



apply fairly well to the females of several species before 

 me ; one of these bears a label in the Rev. T. Blackburn s 

 writing " Attains australis, Fairm." ; and as it is the 

 only common species I have from about Sydney (the type 

 of australis being given as from Sydney) and agrees fully 

 as well as any of the others with the description, I accept 

 the identification as correct.* 



In the type of australis the lower surface of only the first 

 of the antennal joints was pallid, in the specimens before 

 me the number of joints that are pallid beneath vary in 

 number from one to four, whilst occasionally the second 

 joint is entirely pallid. Fairmaire describes the scutellum 

 as " triangidari." In specimens having the elytra somewhat 

 freed from the prothorax the scutellum appears as widely 

 triangular with the apex widely rounded ; with the pro- 

 thorax overlapping the elytra, as is usually the case, the 

 scutellum could scarcely be described as triangular. In 

 the female the hind tibiae are moderately curved, and at 

 the tip compressed, fairly wide and distinctly emarginate 

 or notched, but not spurred. 



The male (I have a pair taken in cop.) differs from the 

 female in being slightly smaller, with longer antennae 

 (which have the serrations of the joints more pronounced), 

 the front femora stout, moderately curved and with strongly 

 projecting trochanters; the front tibiae are rather stouter 

 and the hind ones shorter and less curved than in the 

 female. 



Hah. N. S. Wales : Sydney, Como, National Park. 



Hypattalus elegans, Blackb., T. R. S., S. A., 1804, p. 209. 



Of this species Blackburn says " colore praecedenti {piunc- 

 tulatus) simillimus" (except as to the elytra and legs) the 

 colour of the abdomen not being mentioned ; of piunctvlatus 

 it is described as "parte mediana rufis," apparently as in 

 the normal form of ahdominalis. Tlie type specimen was 

 possibly examined without removal from the card, as in 

 four females before me the two basal and the apical seg- 

 ments are blackish whilst the others are blackish or infus- 

 cate along the middle, but this could not be seen from the 

 side ; in the two males I have seen the abdomen is en- 

 tirely red. The male is smaller than the female and the 



* Mr. Blackburn himself {I. c.) appears to have had some slight 

 doubts as to the correctness of his identification. 



