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decidedly longer than usual, but the insertion of the scape is as. 
in all the other species. 
GLAUCOPELA INSTABILIS, 2. Sp. 
Black; rostrum (except base), antenne, tibiz, and tarsi red.. 
Upper-surface with white or whitish scales, mixed with black or 
other scales ; under-surface and femora with white scales, tinged 
with blue or green. 
Rostrum rather wide, shorter than prothorax ; strongly punc- 
tate, more densely towards base than apex. Prothorax almost 
twice as wide as long; densely punctate. Hlytrw suboblong, con-. 
siderably wider than prothorax, parallel-sided to near apex ;. 
striate-punctate, interstices rather wide, feebly convex, and 
finely punctate. Length, 2 mm.; rostrum, 2 mm.; width, 1 mm. 
Hab..—W.A.: Geraldton, Swan River, Beverley. 
The clothing of this species is excessively variable, and is not 
exactly the same in any two specimens out of about forty under 
examination. The scales on the prothorax are usually paler at 
the sides than on the disc ; there is usually a pale median line- 
dividing two dark patches of scales; sometimes the line is 
entirely absent, and the discal scales may be entirely black, or 
coppery-yellow, or of a dull white ; in an occasional specimen the 
prothorax is clothed with black scales, except for a feeble line of 
white at the base and side. The clothing of the elytra is even 
more variable than of the prothorax, the paler scales may be of a 
dead-white, or coppery, or tinged with blue; they may occupy 
almost the entire surface, or be distributed as feeble spots; in 
some specimens the black scales form six more or less distinct. 
spots; in others the white scales form scutellar and sutural 
markings, and three more or less interrupted transverse fascie. 
Derm reddish = = 3 ee ee TUG, 0. See 
Derm black or piceous-black. 
Legs red_... 5S fuscomarmorea, Blkb. 
Femora black, tibiz and tarsi red. 
Clothing uniform ... sp 
Clothing more or less variegated. 
Elytra syuamose and setose 22 ... @istincta, Blkb. 
Klytra squamose only... cut instabilis, n. Sp. 
varipes, Blkb. 
G. wnicolor (Pascoe) is described as being two lines in length. 
Of the above species distincta is the largest, and measures but 
one and one-half lines. 
MYOoSITTA CARPOPHAGA, 2. sp. 
Head and rostrum red, prothorax reddish-testaceous; elytra, 
under surface, legs, and antenne testaceous. Clothed with very 
fine yellow pubescence, absent on head (except between eyes) and 
disc of prothorax. 
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