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Group 2. Elytra with two isolated black spots of 

 clothing. 



inusitata. 

 Group 3. Elytra with uniform pubescence, or if not 

 uniform markings entirely lateral or sutural, never 

 as pale spots or transverse fasciae. 



baldiensis, corvina, cuneata i exilis, fuscipilis, 

 Inornata, mastersi, pygmaea, rufipes, sericans, 

 tarsalis, tristis, verticordiae. 



But the following species have forms belonging to more 

 than one division or group : — 



limbata. Div. 2, Group 1 (Subgroup 3) and Group 3. 

 nigrans. Div. 1 and Div. 2, Group 1 (Subgroup 3) and 



Group 3. 

 pygidialis. Div. 2, Group 1, Subgroups 1 and 3. 



The species not known to me appear to belong to the 

 following divisions, etc. : — 

 lepida. Div. 1. 

 mixta. Probably Div. 2, Group 1, Subgroup 1, but 



possibly Div. 1. 

 ornata. Div. 2, Group 1. 

 parva. Div. 2, Group 3. 

 tomentosa. If not a Tomoxia would appear to belong 



to Div. 2, Group 3. 



Mordella australis (Boi.), Lea. 



M. albosparsa, Gemm. (M. albosignata, Boh., n. pr.). 



M. undosa, Macl. 



PI. xiv., figs. 55-59. 

 I have previously (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1895, 

 p. 288) described as australis, Boi., a species whose typical 

 specimens may be readily identified by an oblique vitta from 

 the vicinity of the scutellum, and the pattern given (in 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, pi. i., fig 12) should prevent 

 typical specimens from being confused with any other species ; 

 but specimens with this vitta wanting or ill-defined and the 

 other markings broken up are not readily distinguished from 

 small non-fasciate specimens of promiscua. This species was 

 so identified in the Macleay Museum (although the species 

 identified by Macleay from Gayndah was a form of elegans); 

 the species identified as australis by Olliff from Lord Howe 

 so identified in the Macleay Museum (although the species 

 identified as australis; the original description, "Minor, nigra, 

 thorace postica linea alba; elytris fasciis tribus interruptis, 

 tenuissimis, albidis," in fact, would apply to a great many 

 species of the genus. The description of albosignata, Boh., 



