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apical joint was described as "elongato cult ri for mi" ) is with- 

 out this. It was doubtfully recorded as from New South 

 Wales; the specimens before me are from New South Wales 

 (Forest Reefs) and South Australia (Lucindale), in addition 

 to two co-type males. 



Copidita pulchra, Blackb. 



The type of this species was unique in the Blackburn 

 collection, and is now in the British Museum; its sex, unfor- 

 tunately, was not noted. It was the only species referred by 

 Blackburn to his second subsection of the genus characterized 

 by "apical joint of maxillary palpi scarcely longer than 

 penultimate"; in the specific description this was noted as 

 "guam penultim.us parum longiori," and again, "The short 

 apical joint of the maxillary •palpi." 



I have taken, at Forest Reefs, two females that have the 

 apical joint rather shorter than usual in the genus, although 

 decidedly longer than the penultimate joint (its inner edge is 

 about the length of that joint, but the outer edge is quite 

 one-half longer) ; their colours agree exactly with the descrip- 

 tion, but the elytra are without the "lineis subelevatis 3 pers- 

 picue instructis" of the type; this, however, being a somewhat 

 variable character in several species of the genus, it is quite 

 probable that the specimens really belong to pulchra. 



Three specimens, from Mount Victoria, agree well with 

 the colours, except that the elytra are more of a metallic 

 bluish-green than "laete cyaneis," and of these a male has 

 three disoal lines on each elytron, but they are fairly distinct 

 only towards the base; but the apical joint of the maxillary 

 palpi of both sexes is conspicuously longer than the penulti- 

 mate, whilst in the male it is of such a curious shape that 

 had the type been of that sex Blackburn could scarcely have 

 avoided describing it. 



There is still another species, ruficollis, Macl., whose 

 female would be referred to Subsection II., but its male has 

 bifid claws, and both sexes have entirely pale femora. 



Copidita maritima, n. sp. 



<S • Black, with a dull bluish gloss ; head (except for 

 a large oval median spot and the tips of the mandibles), 

 pro thorax (except for a large frontal blotch), part of 

 scutellum, labial palpi, and parts of legs flavous ; four apical 

 joints of antennae (and sometimes others) also pale. Densely 

 clothed with short, whitish, depressed pubescence. 



Head with several vague impressions; with rather small 

 but sharply-defined and somewhat irregularly-distributed 

 punctures ; mandibles bifid. Antennae long and thin, eleventh 



