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FIRST GUOL'P (a, B, C, D, E, OF TABL LATION). 
Tb3 species under this heading form part of a natural 
group with which, however, some species with very different 
antennal structure (A A, B, C, D, E, of tabulation) 
are so closely allied that they ought to be placed in it to 
make it complete as a natural group. Sir W. Macleay plac- 
ed them all together, and attributed similar antennal struc- 
ture to them all. There are strongly marked sexual charac- 
ters in the clypeus of all of them, and in the front tarsi of 
more than half, sexual characters in the antennae moderately 
strong, in the abdomen almost none, vestiture of dorsal sur- 
face and structure of liind tarsi uniform, or but slightly 
varying specifically, structure of front tibiae very uniform. 
The following are notes on some of the species: — 
L. Addaida., Blackb., is L. coinafun^ Macl., although 
the description of coinatua is extremely misleading, being 
founded on a colour var. such as I have not seen, and said to 
resemble Z. margtnipennis, Blanch., which is a species of 
the same natural group, but by no means one of the most like 
it superficially. Macleay had a peculiarly coloured example 
before him, and gave a by no means felicitous description of 
it under the name comatus. 
L. flavopilosus, Macl. This species was described from 
Gaynclah specimens, as also was fulvolnrtiis, Macl. Between 
the two descriptions I find absolutely not one differential 
character except that the pilosity of one is called "pale red" 
and of the other "yellowish." In the Australian Museum I 
find one specimen (male) of flavopdo8us and two (female) of 
fulvohirtus, doubtless including the types. Tliey are all from 
one locality (Gayndah), and do not seem to differ inter se 
except in sex. 
L. xanfhofrirhus, Blanch. Macleay says that the basal 
two joints of the hind tarsi are equal. The specimens so 
named in the Sydney Museums — as also in my own collection 
— have hind tarsi wi£h the basal joint (though longer than 
is usual in this group) distinctly shorter than the second 
joint. The author of the name does not mention the hind 
tarsi. 
L. ater, Macl. A male (unique) in the Macleay Museum 
is evidently the type of this species. Excessively close U) 
phoenicopterus, Germ., and attributed to the same region (S5. 
Australia) as that species. It is notably larger than any 
specimen that I have seen of ordinarily coloured phoenicop- 
terus, nor have I seen phfeuicopterus (of ordinary size) with 
elytra dark piceous in colour as they are in ater. The gemi- 
nate striae of the elytra are more strongly marked than in 
