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Macleay in error described the mesosternum as black. The 

 type of ruficollis was from Gayndah, and is a female; the 

 type of dentipes ( 52 > is evidently a male, and was from an 

 unknown locality. The specimens now before me are the 

 type of ruficollis, one from Australia (old collection), three 

 from Queensland (Mackay and Brisbane), one from New 

 South Wales (Forest Reefs), and five from South Australia 

 (Mount Lofty and Myponga). 



COPIDITA NIGRONOTATA, Boll. 



PL xiii., fig. 24. 



This species varies in length from 10 to 16 mm., and some 

 specimens are much darker than others. There are nearly 

 always five small spots on each elytron : one on the shoulder 

 and four in a line close to the suture at almost equal distances 

 apart, but the apical one is seldom as sharply defined as 

 the others, and occasionally is absent. 



COPIDITA BALDIENSIS, Blackb. 



A specimen, from Jenolan, differs from a co-type of this 

 species in having the prothoracic impressions smaller and 

 shallower, and the lateral spots much smaller and appearing 

 more like stains; oij the elytra the subelevated lines are even 

 less defined (on the co-type, although not conspicuously 

 elevated, they are traceable to near the apex, but on the 

 Jenolan specimen they are not traceable even to the middle). 



Copidita kershawi, Blackb. 



The type of this species was described as having "capite 

 in parte postica longitudinaliter canaliculato," and 

 was said to differ from baldiensis "by its head strongly canali- 

 culate in the hinder part." It was originally received from 

 Mr. Kershaw, of the National Museum, and is now in the 

 British Museum. I have seen three Victorian specimens from 

 the National Museum, said by Mr. Kershaw to have been 

 named by Mr. Blackburn, but not bearing his name labels, < 53 ) 

 and these agree with the description except that the head is 



(52) It was represented in the Blackburn collection by a label 

 only. 



(53) In reply to an enquiry Mr. Kershaw wrote:- — "Regarding 

 Copidita kershawi, I have examined four other specimens, but 

 cannot find any trace of a longitudinal groove on the back of the 

 head. The specimen referred to by Blackburn is one of a number 

 of beetles I sent him about 1899; all. those sent were numbered, 

 and a corresponding number was attached to similar specimens in 

 our collection; he did not return a specimen, but sent me the 

 name and number." 



