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(South Australia) is slightly smaller than the types, and has 

 the elytra! markings as on the Cunnamulla specimen, except 

 that they are on a reduced scale and less sharply denned. 



MORDELLA 9-MACULATA, Lea. 



Some specimens from the Dividing Range (Victoria) have 

 the markings of the upper-surface golden, and with two small 

 distinct spots in the middle of the pronotum. A specimen in 

 the National Museum is labelled (probably in error) as from 

 the Endeavour River. 



• MORDELLA OVALISTICTA, Mad. 



PI. xiv., fig. 84; pi. xv., fig. 122. 

 The type and only specimen I have seen of this species 

 in general appearance is very close to several others (1£- 

 macidata, 8-macidata, and notabilis), but is distinguished 

 from them by the narrow subapical fascia of the pronotum 

 extending, without interruption in the middle, almost from 

 side to side, the two narrow vittae behind it are not quite 

 parallel to each other, and if extended would meet slightly 

 beyond the scutellum. Macleay described each elytron as 

 trimaculate, but he overlooked a small spot to the side of 

 and mid- way between the first and second. 



MORDELLA PROMISCUA, Er. 



M. communis, Waterh. 



Var. trivialis, Waterh. 



Var. aemula, Lea. 



Var. fugitiva, Lea. 



Var. raymondi, Lea. 



Var. simillima, Lea. 

 PI. xiv., figs. 85-90. 

 So many species vary in the direction of promiscua and 

 its varieties that, from examination of the upper-surface only 

 of many of their specimens, I believe it to be impossible to 

 state with certainty as to which of several species they belong 

 to. The variety trivialis is the most distinct of the species, 

 and one need seldom be in doubt about typical specimens of 

 that variety, but the other varieties and some species (atis- 

 tralis, bella, brevis, cara, elegans, felix, limbata, obsoleta, 

 and sydneyana) so frequently have the spots or fasciae broken 

 up, that apparently connecting forms may be traced amongst 

 many species, that yet, by their typical forms, are seen to 

 be abundantly distinct, and which should not be regarded as 

 varieties of the species. I have previously given some patterns 

 of the species and its varieties (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



