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the depressions are feeble and the median carina absent. 

 The large reddish, densely-clothed spaces vary considerably in 

 size, but apparently nevei' quite meet at the base; on an 

 occasional specimen they are obscurely connected with the 

 apex, but on one female (from Forest Reefs) are widely con- 

 tinuous from base to apex. On another female (from Mount 

 Tambourine) the patches are rather short, but the apex of 

 the prothorax has two slight disconnected patches in line 

 with the others ; on this specimen also the elytra are without 

 black vittae close to the suture, but the suture itself, adjacent 

 to their positions, is black. A male (from Macedon) has the 

 prothoracic patches much smaller than usual, with the depres- 

 sions very conspicuous and the median carina unusually acute. 



Var. elegantulus, Blackb. Only one specimen of this 

 variety was known to Blackburn, but he considered it also 

 would be variable. He relied upon the shape of the pro- 

 thorax to distinguish it from others of the genus, but this is 

 not to be relied upon. On the type the prothorax was 

 described as having a black median vitta and a black spot 

 on each side, and the elytra as being black with three narrow 

 vittae : the suture and a stripe along the fifth (counting the 

 sutural) costa on each elytron. Of this form I have seen but 

 two specimens, both males, as was the type ; three females 

 have similarly-coloured elytra, but the entire apex of the pro- 

 thorax is black with three tines proceeding from it, as on 

 puberulus. 



Var. B, n. var. Prothorax with two conspicuous red- 

 dish patches of variable extent, but leaving a trident-shaped 

 black mark ; elytra with shoulders, apex, and sides conspicu- 

 ously red and part of the suture red. On this form the 

 extreme margins of the elytra towards the base, as seen from 

 the sides, are black, but the black is concealed from above. 

 A male of the variety was taken in cop. with a female of 

 puberulus by Mr. Carter, who also had another male of it 

 mounted with another female of nwntanus. A female, from 

 the Dividing Range, has similar elytra, but with the pro- 

 thoracic markings reduced to narrow longitudinal vittae on 

 the apical two-thirds, but not' quite touching the tip. A 

 male, from Dorrigo, has similarly coloured prothorax to the 

 Dividing Range specimen, but the humeral and apical mark- 

 ings of the elytra are quite disconnected. Two females, from 

 the Blue Mountains, have the reddish prothoracic patches 

 unusually large, but not quite touching the apex, and the 

 black parts of the elytra almost confined to parts of the inter- 

 stices between the costae. 



Var. C, n. var. A male, from Gosford, has the red 

 prothoracic patches continuous from base to apex, and the 



