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Eleale simplex, Newm. 



Specimens from Western Australia differ from the typical 

 form in being larger, more greenish in colour, somewhat less 

 nitid, and in having the antennae dark with the first three 

 or four joints more or less testaceous; on one, an inter- 

 mediate form, joints 1 to 4 are testaceous, 5 to 8 are dark, 

 here and there paler, and the three apical joints are a sordid 

 testaceous. Eleale intricata, Klug, I believe to be only a 

 variety of this species. 



Hab. — South Australia, Vidtoria, Tasmania, Western 

 Australia. 



Eleale pulchra, Newm. 



Two specimens from Cottesloe, Western Australia, have 

 the whole of the antennae dull black, with only joints 2 and 3 

 slightly tinged with red ; on one the prothorax has a distinct, 

 interrupted, longitudinal median carina, on the other it is 

 much less distinct. This is, apparently, the form Spinola 

 named E. himaculata. 



Lemidia alternata, Lea. 

 Four specimens from Queensland differ from the typical 

 form by the size and shape of the elytral markings. Tlie 

 ■red basal band is narrow, the submedian black band very 

 wide, the postmedian red one about half the width of the 

 preceding dark one, and the apical black portion about two- 

 thirds the width of the preceding red part. On all of the four 

 specimens the submedian black band is by far the widest. 

 The whole of the legs are pale, except the posterior tarsi, 

 which are more or less infuscated. 



Allelidea brevipennis, Pascoe. 

 A specimen taken near Ballarat, Victoria (near type 

 locality), differs from the author's description by having all 

 the tarsi blackish. Pascoe in his Latin description says, 

 "tibiis flavis," and in his English delineation says, "tarsi 

 yellow." This may, perhaps, be an error, "tibiae yellow" 

 being meant, but only a reference to the type, which is in the 

 British Museum, will definitely reveal this. The specimen 

 before me has all the tibiae flavous, and the tarsi blackish. 



CURCULIONIDAE. 



Mandalotus lutosus. Lea. 

 Four specimens of the above species were taken by R. F. 

 Kemp and myself from moss on the summit of Mount Lofty, 

 South Australia. The male differs from the author's descrip- 

 tion in having the carina on rostrum distinct, the granules 

 on the prothorax transversely arranged, the under-surface 

 of body diluted with red, particularly the last two segments 

 of the abdomen, the coxae and parts of the under-surface 

 of legs red. 



