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The five specimens before me appear to be all females, 

 and the prothoracic excavations vary slightly on them all. 



COPIDITA PUNCTA, W- S. Mad. 



1. On the typical form of this species the head has a 

 large rounded or elliptic, completely isolated black spot in 

 front, the pronotum has a large, curved, longitudinal, black 

 or blackish vitta on each side, and the elytra have 'the suture 

 narrowly pale, but the pale portion touches neither the base 

 nor apex, and is slightly dilated posteriorly, the elytral 

 margins are usually very narrowly pale, but the pale portion 

 is sometimes so obscure that it might be regarded as absent. 

 On the male the abdomen (5°* has the second-fourth segments 

 black ; - on the female those segments usually have a black 

 spot on each side, but occasionally the abdomen is entirely 

 pale. 



2. A male, from Lucindale, has the abdomen entirely 

 pale, and the sutural marking rather wider than usual and 

 parallel-sided, except at its beginning and end. 



3. A male, from Tasmania, differs from the typical 

 male in having the pale sutural portion considerably wider 

 than usual, and somewhat dilated at the middle (of the 

 suture), the disc outside of the dilated portion is also obscurely 

 longitudinally diluted. 



4. A male, from Lucindale, has the head entirely black 

 between the eyeg, each of the prothoracic vittae near the 

 apex directed outwards and then backwards for a short 

 distance (so as to appear somewhat hook-shaped), the sutural 

 marking extremely narrow but continuous throughout, and 

 the abdomen, tibiae, and tarsi black. 



5. Three males, from Northern Queensland, have the 

 head, abdomen, and legs as in No. 4, but the prothorax has 

 a disconnected spot on each side near the vitta, the elytra 

 have the suture narrowly but conspicuously pale from the 

 base almost to the apex, and each shoulder has a small 

 pale spot. 



6. A female, from Galston, has the markings of the 

 head and prothorax as in No. 4, the elytral suture narrowly 

 pale throughout, till at the tip it joins in with the conspicu- 

 ously pale lateral margins, and the abdomen (except the basal 

 segment and part of the second) blackish. 



7. Five females, from Dalby, have the head widely 

 black between the eyes, the prothoracic vittae rather wider 

 than usual, the sutural marking commencing very narrowly 

 at the base, feebly dilated at the middle, and suddenly and 



(50) The. abdomen was not mentioned in the original description. 



