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Wales and Queensland, as well as in Victoria, and the 

 specimens before me may be regarded as belonging to two 

 common forms and several varieties. 



Form 1 (typical). Elytra entirely pale (this form at 

 present only known from Victoria). 



Form 2. Elytra entirely dark (usually black, but some- 

 times deeply infuscated, rarely with the suture obscurely 

 diluted with red). 



A specimen (from Benalla) has the elytra deeply infus- 

 cated except for a conspicuous flavous spot on each shoulder ; 

 one (from Tamworth) has the humeral spots enlarged so as 

 to occupy the whole of the basal two-fifths (except the 

 suture) ; another (also from Tamworth) has basal markings 

 occupying the same space, but the rest of the elytra very 

 lightly infuscated; one (from Brisbane) has the apical two- 

 fifths of elytra deep black; sharply defined from the flavous 

 basal portion ; another (also from Brisbane) has the apical 

 half black and the basal half deeply infuscated. 



Paromarteon constans, n. sp. 



Deep purplish-blue; parts of appendages obscurely 

 diluted with red. Clothed with straggling blackish hairs, 

 becoming shorter, paler, and denser on under-surface and legs. 



Head transverse; with a few scattered distinct punctures. 

 Eyes large and prominent. Antennae moderately stout, 

 extending to middle coxae, three basal joints rather thin and 

 shining, the following to tenth equal in width, and slightly 

 decreasing in length, eleventh distinctly longer but not 

 wider than tenth. Prothorax transverse, sides strongly 

 rounded, base slightly narrower than apex; with a few minute 

 scattered punctures. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, 

 sides feebly dilated to beyond the middle, and then gently 

 rounded to apex; with fairly dense and well-defined, but not 

 very large punctures, becoming much smaller posteriorly. 

 Length, 3^-4^ mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 6117. 



Structurally fairly close to mutabile, except that the 

 elytra are rather wider; but very differently coloured, and 

 the nine specimens in the Museum do not exhibit the least 

 tendency to vary in colour. 



Temnopalpus bicolor, Blackb. 



A specimen from the Blackburn collection was labelled 



"Near Temnopalpus bicolor, antennae longer and more 



slender, pronotum less closely punctulate, elytra more 



strongly punctulate." A specimen from Benalla differs from 



