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darker than the general colour in the female. This sexual 
variation of the under-surface appears in several other species, 
e.g., ventralis and acacie. 
C. TARSALIS, Black. 
C. EricHsoni, Pasce. 
C. VENTRALIS, Pasc. 
Derm reddish or testaceous, elytra almost or quite 
concolorous with prothorax. 
Rostrum slightly longer than prothorax. 
Club and almost the entire funicle infuscate 
‘Club infuscate, funicle not 
Rostrum the length of or slightly shorter than 
prothorax. 
Tarsi infuscate 
Tarsi concolorous with tibiee. 
Length (including rostrum) less than 2 mm. ... 
Length at least 25 mm. 
Club entirely black ... 
Apex only of club black (or piceous). 
Metasternum black; abdomen red in 
female, black in male ; 
Metasternum and abdomen reddish, not 
sexually variable. 
Rostrum feebly or moderately grooved 
in middle near apex ... 
Rostrum not grooved 
Elytra with two piceous spots... 
‘Prothorax piceous ; elytra pallid tinged with piceous 
about scutellum and along suture 
Black. 
Legs black 
Legs pallid 
GLAUCOPELA RUFA, 7. sp. 
Dark-red, sterna sometimes piceous. 
Hab.—N.S.W.: Queanbeyan. 
Hab.—N.S.W.: Tamworth. 
Hab.—W.A.: Geraldton, Swan River. 
impura, . sp. 
Sydneyensis, Blkb. 
tarsalis, Blkb. 
parva, 0. sp. 
negriclava, D. sp. 
ventralis, Pasc. 
inornata, 0. sp. 
Erichsoni, Pasc. 
maculata, n. sp. 
acacie, n. sp. 
nigra, N. sp. 
rujipes, n. sp. 
Clothed with yellowish 
setose pubescence, on the prothorax leaving six nude spaces— 
-one on each side, two at base, and two at apex; elytra with 
pubescence more or less linear in arrangement and frequently 
interrupted, and leaving three more or less distinct semi-nude 
spaces—one near base, one near apex, and one behind middle. 
Under-surface with greyish-yellow pubescence. 
Eyes large, round, depressed. Rostrum distinctly longer than 
prothorax, sexually variable in length ; finely punctate; shining. 
Prothorax transverse, sides rounded, base about twice the width 
-cf apex ; densely and strongly punctate. Hlytra wide, short, 
much wider than prothorax ; punctate-striate, interstices wider 
ives striz, and seriate-punctate. Length, 2 mm.; rostrum, 
3—= mm.; width, 1} mm. 
Hab. Wy en River; N.S.W.: Whitton. 
In colour this species is different to all its described congeners, 
‘being of an uniform dark- or brownish-red. The rostrum is 
