456 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
Cormocephalus subminiatus, Newp. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 100; 
id. Tr. Linn. Soc. xix. p. 425 (1845). 
Cormocephalus miniatus, 1d. ibid. 
Cormocephalus auranttipes, aurantiipes var. obscurus, and subminiatus, 
Haase, Abh. Mus. Dresden, no. 5, pp. 57-62 (1887) (where other 
synonyms may be found). 
The types of Newport’s species cited above, namely 
aurantiipes from the Swan River *, obscurus from Sydney, 
miniatus from Adelaide, and subminiatus from the Swan 
River, are preserved in the British Museum and are, I 
believe, specifically identical. 
Moreover, according to Haase, C. gracilis, Kohlrausch, 
from Gayndah, is based upon the young of this species, and 
C. maryinatus, Porat, from Sydney, upon a variety without 
median sulcus on the anal tergum ; also Meinert’s type of 
exiguus from Brisbane was referred by Haase to the species 
he identified as subminiatus, Newp., of which he had seen 
examples from Adelaide. 
In addition to the types of Newport’s species above referred 
to, the British Museum has specimens from South Queensland 
(B. Spencer) ; Bendigo in Victoria and Sydney (W’. Froggatt) ; 
Queensland (J. Macpherson),and New Xouth Wales; Melbourne 
(Degen) ; Mt. Lofty (B. Spencer); Perth (Turner) and the 
Darling Range (B. H. Woodward) ; and ‘Toowoomba. 
Haase separated subminiatus from this species on the 
strength, as he believed, of its having thinner and more 
strongly spined anal legs; but this feature, like the presence 
or absence of a sulcus on the anal tergite, appears to be quite 
inconstant, the sulcus being sometimes strong, sometimes 
faint, and sometimes absent, irrespective of locality. 
Hence I find it impossible to maintain obscurus as a sub- 
species or variety. 
Another variety instituted by Haase has fiom 11-14, 
instead of 9, spines on the anal femora. The specimens 
exhibiting this abnormality were from Adelaide. 
Judging from dried and alcohol-preserved material, the 
colour in this species varies from a uniform chestnut to olive- 
brown or green, with dark green bands across the terga, deep 
bluish-green antenne, red head and anal somite. ‘The last is, 
1 suspect, the true colour of the species. 
Cormoccphalus Turnert, sp. n. 
3 (adult), Prevailing colour greenish, with the anal somite 
and legs paler. Head more convex than in C. aurantitpes; 
* Not Port Essington, as Newport asserts. 
