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as it frequently is in haemorrhoidalis. The type was some- 

 what doubtfully recorded from Australia ; the specimens 

 before me are from Queensland (Mount Tambourine), New 

 South Wales (Bulli, Illawarra, Gosford, Forest Reefs, Galston, 

 Sydney, Ben Lomond, Blue Mountains, Mount Irvine, and 

 Mount Victoria), Victoria (Flinders, Jameson, Warragul, 

 Warburton, Macedon/ 42 ) Alps, and Dividing Range), and 

 South Australia (Mount Lofty). 



A. Troth orax entirely black. 



haemopterus, Guer. (typical). In his collection Black- 

 burn had many forms correctly standing as one species, and 

 of these two bear his name label haemopterus ; these two are 

 black, the elytra reddish, with a narrow black vitta on each 

 close to the suture, and extending from one-third to two- 

 thirds the length of the elytra, and slightly nearer the apex 

 than the base ; this form (of which there are nine specimens 

 and both sexes before me) is here regarded as the typical 

 one, as in the original description the elytra are described as 

 being "d'un jaune ferrugineux et la suture fin em en t horde e 

 de no?r." 



Var. montanus, Cart. On this variety the elytra are 

 black, with the apex, shoulders, and a narrow connecting 

 line on the fifth (counting one on the suture) costa on each 

 elytron reddish (the extreme outer margins from the base to 

 beyond the middle are black, but from above the whole of the 

 margins appear to be reddish). 



Var. A, n. var. Numerous specimens differ from mon- 

 tanus in having the red of the fifth costa on each elytron 

 extending a variable distance, but never to the base ; and 

 the shoulders not red. This form was commented upon (but 

 not indexed in any way) by Blackburn, and he had at least 

 four specimens of it. 



A A. Trothorax not entirely black. 

 Var. puberulus, Blackb. Apparently only one speci- 

 men (now in the British Museum) of this form was known 

 to Blackburn, although he considered it would probably be 

 variable. In general appearance typical specimens of the 

 form are close to typical ones of haemopterus, except that the 

 prothorax is reddish with a black trident-shaped mark (as 

 viewed from the front) ; the middle tine of this appears to 

 end in the scutellum, the lateral ones, from directly above, 

 appear to end about the middle, but from the side each is 

 seen to extend to the base. Numerous specimens of the 

 variety before me vary from having strong impressions and a 

 conspicuous median carina, to those in which (as on the type) 



(42) Including the type of montanus. 



