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of the basal joint of the hind tarsi). The type was from 

 King Island (whence both Mr. J. A. Kershaw and I have 

 taken it), but it occurs also in Victoria. After commenting ( 34 > 

 upon the exact agreement of the description of luctuosus with 

 atratus, Blackburn nevertheless assumed ( 35 ) that it was a dis- 

 tinct species, closely allied to haemorrhoidalis , but differing in 

 the colours of the hind tarsi, these not even being mentioned 

 in the original description ( 36 > of luctuosus ; in any case (as 

 above noted) the colour of the basal joint is not to be relied 

 upon . 



Var. cinctus, Guer. In this variety the suture (except 

 close to the base), outer margins, and tips of the elytra are 

 reddish, the red usual! v somewhat dilated on the shoulders 

 and tips. It was described as from King Island, and the 

 specimens before me are from King Island and Tasmania. 



Var. rufipennis, Cart. This is the most abundant 

 variety of the species, and the one figured by Champion as a 

 variety of cinctus. W> Both Champion and Carter described 

 the elytra as being uniformly red (or ferruginous) ; on many 

 specimens, however (and including the type ( 38) of rufipennis), 

 the elytra! suture is narrowly dark at the base, and 

 sometimes is narrowly dark throughout. On the type 

 of rufipennis the hind tarsi are entirely dark, but the lower 

 parts of the three basal joints of antennae are not entirely 

 black; on many other specimens of the variety, however, the 

 antennae are entirely black, and the hind tarsi not so. A 

 specimen from Mount Wellington has a fairly wide sutural 

 space at the base conspicuously black, with the second costa 

 for a short distance black, and the third lightly infuscated 

 about the base. Two specimens from Hobart (taken in cop.) 

 are rather more robust and the elytra more convex and paler 

 than usual, but with the suture conspicuously black to well 

 beyond the middle. 



Var. costipennis, n. var. A form is fairly common in 

 Tasmania in which the costal elevations of the elytra (except 



(WAnte, 1899, p. 84. 

 (tt)L.c, p. 85. 



(36) Atra, thorace rugoso; elytris costatis, antennis com- 

 planatis. 



(37) In Champion's reference to haemorrhoidalis he described 

 as a variety of that species ia form having "the elytra with the 

 apex, suture, and outer margins ferruginous" (this form is really 

 typical of die variety cinctus); and he described as a variety of 

 cinctus a Form having "the elytra entirety ferruginous," this 

 form being the one he figured (pi. vi., fig. 10), although the refer- 

 ence rto the plate is apparently given for the variety of 

 haemorrhoidalis. He, however, correctly assumed that they were 

 all forms of one species. 



(38) Kindly lent for examination by Mr. Carter. 



