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trict which present slight uniform distinctive characters perhaps 
entitling them to be considered a local variety and which may be 
thus characterised : 
Var. Jindensis. Minor (long. 1 1.). Differt capitis parte mediana 
strigosa nec rugulosa; prothorace ad basin vix manifeste 
impresso 
(This variety differs from Wi/soni by its smaller size and fulv- 
ous legs, except the hind femora). 
I have also some specimens from the higher mountains of Vict- 
oria which seem to represent a local race though hardly desery- 
ing to be considered a species ; they may be thus characterised : 
Var. alpicola. Major (long., 14 1.). Differt capitis parte 
mediana subcoriacea, vix strigosa (subtilissime nec rugulose 
punctulata), puncturis magnis prope oculos sat numerosis ; 
prothoracis impressionibus basalibus sat distinctis. 
(This variety differs from Walsoni by its larger size, and legs, 
except the hind femora, entirely fulvous). 
T may add that I find the angularity of the front corner of the 
prothorax a character that cannot be relied upon. In all the 
above mentioned specimens the front angles are more or less pro- 
duced externally ; I have even specimens in which one angle 
seems more prominent than the other; in the specimens from 
Port Lincoln and Yorke’s Peninsula the angle seems less marked 
than in those from the Adelaide district and Victoria, in some 
examples it is scarcely traceable. 
P. varipes, sp. nov. Ovalis, sat elongata ; nitida ; nea, tibiis 
tarsisque rufis piceo-variegatis, antennis rufis (parte dimidia 
apicali infuscatis) ; capite convexo leviter crebre vix subt- 
iliter punctulato, sulcis interocularibus sat profundis (ab 
oculorum parte postica ad antennarum basin fere recte ut 
linez sat subtiles extensis) ; antennis quam corporis dimidium 
haud longioribus, articulo 1° quam 2" 3" que conjuncti 
haud ‘breviori, his inter se sat equalibus ; prothorace quam 
longiori minus quam duplo latiori, sat grosse sat crebre 
punctulato, quam caput distincte latiori, antice distincte 
angustato, lateribus vix arcuatis, angulis anticis paullo in- 
crassatis sat acutis sed vix extrorsum directis; elytris 
striatis, striis sat grosse nec confertim punctulatis (striz 
primz puncturis vix confusis), interstitiis manifeste punct- 
ulatis vix convexis. Long., 12 1.; lat., 31. 
Near P. Olliffi, Blackb., but of a less brightly brassy tone of 
color, with all the femora dark, the prothorax and elytral strix 
considerably more strongly punctulate, and the interstices of the 
elytral striz less flat. 
N.S. Wales: Blue Mountains. 
