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character alone is sufficient to distinguish them from multicolor 

 and striafipecfifs. 



The description of xanthopus is insufficient for its positive 

 identification, as the sexual features are not noted ; if varietal, 

 it has precedence of inermis, in which case the red-legged form 

 should be known as xanthopus and the dark-legged one as var. 

 inermis. The description of Colaspoides australis also agrees 

 fairly well with specimens of this species, but here again the 

 essential sexual features were not mentioned. In the short 

 diagnosis the legs were described as fulvous, but in the lengthier 

 description they were stated to be piceous or dark fulvous ; if 

 australis should also prove to be synonymous it would appear 

 that Jacoby had specimens of both the typical form and of the 

 variety. 



Cleptor rufimanus, Lef. 



In the original description of this species the legs (except 

 as to their colour) and abdomen were not even mentioned, and 

 as it evidently belongs to a section of the genus whose species 

 :are most readily identified by the male tibiae, it seems inad- 

 visable to positively identify any species as rujimanus^ without 

 comparison with the type, unless the same happens to be a 

 male, and its sexual features are noted ; it is desirable also 

 that the sculpture of the flanks of its prosternum should be 

 noted. 



There are, however, five females before me, of which two 

 (mounted together) from the Blackburn collection bear labels 

 as follows: — "N. Austral.," ''Cleptor riifimanvs, by Jacoby," 

 "rufimanus, Lef." ; and these specimens have the prothoracic 

 punctures, apparently the most distinctive characters of the 

 species, as described. The others are from Mackay, Cairns, 

 and Somerset. I have seen no males that could be confidently 

 associated with them. 



Cleptor haroldi, Blackb. 

 Of this species the legs (except as to their colour) and 

 abdomen were not even mentioned. The type is now in the 

 British Museum ; in the collection of the late Rev. T. Blackburn 

 it was represented by a label only. Possibly two females in 

 the Museum (from Cairns), one purplish-blue, the other brassy, 

 may belong to the species ; but as the essential sexual features 

 were not mentioned it is quite impossible to identify the species 

 with certainty from the original description. 



Cleptor multicolor, n. sp. 



S . Of variable colours. 



Head with fairly numerous but rather small punctures, 

 denser between eyes than elsewhere ; median line well defined 

 in front, but becoming feeble or absent about base. Prothorax 



