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Division 1. 



Cleptor inermis, Lef. 

 ( ?) Colasjjoides australis, Jac. 

 ( ?) Colas poides ccanthopus, Har. 

 PL viii., fig. 144. 

 The sexual charact-ers of inermis, the typical species of 

 Cltptor, were not mentioned. There are in the Museum the 

 three specimens previously commented upon by Blackbuniy 

 and bearing labels as follows : — 



1. "Queensland," '"99, " ''Cleptor inermis^ named by 

 Jacoby." 



2. 'Austral Damel," ''106," ''Colasp. xanthopus, named 

 by Jacoby" ; "XanthovKS, Har." 



3. "Sidney," m "Coll. Chapuis," '\Teotaxis fulgida, 

 Lefevre-Chapuis." 



Of these the first two are bronzy females, and agree per- 

 fectly in all structural details, but the second specimen has 

 the margins of the elytra bluish and of the prothorax greenish, 

 its legs are reddish, with the tarsi infuscated : on the first 

 specimen the prothorax and elytra are of uniform colour 

 throughout, and the legs are entirely red ; those of the type 

 were described as "nigro-brunneis." The third specimen is 

 certainly, I think, conspecific with the others, but is a male 

 and more brightly metallic (golden-red with greenish reflec- 

 tions, the margins as on the second specimen), with blackish 

 legs having a metallic blue gloss, but the tarsi infuscated only ; 

 the apical segment of its abdomen is irregularly depressed in 

 the middle, the hind tibiae (fig. 144) are curiously shaped at 

 the apex, and the basal joint of each of the four front tarsi 

 is distinctly inflated. Two other males (from Mackay) agree 

 well with the third specimen, but tend more to a purplish- 

 bronze, with margins violet (on one of them the prothoracic 

 margins are green), the legs (except the tarsi) are also dark. 

 Another male was labelled ''Platymela (?) sapphira, Boisd.,"(5i> 

 in Blackburn's collection ; it is of a vivid-green, with violet 

 margins and under-surface, and dark legs (tarsi and knees 

 paler). There are also numerous specimens in the Macleay 

 Museum, from Rockhampton and Dawson River, and varying 

 in colour from brassy to deep-purple. All the specimens have 

 the flanks of the prosternum with numerous sharply defined 

 punctures, and non-striate except close to the coxae : the latter 



(90) The locality is almost certainly wrong. 



(91) It is not Chrysomela fulvilahris, Germ., of which (7. 

 sapphira, Fab. (Boisd.), is suppased to be a synonym, as that 

 species certainly belongs to the Chrysomelides. 



