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Hob. — South Australia: Lucindale (B. A. Feuerheerdt) . 

 Type, I. 7885. 



There are twenty specimens before me, but I cannot 

 regard them as belonging to more than one variable species; 

 the femoral dentition is usually very feeble, and is occasionally 

 quite absent, but the dentition is similarly variable on several 

 other species. Many specimens are rather close in general 

 appearance to acaciae (with which the dentate specimens 

 would be associated), and have very similar abdominal 

 clothing (except that the nude spots are longer), but the 

 rostrum of both sexes is conspicuously longer; the specimens 

 with edentate femora, in my table, would be associated with 

 longicornis, to which, however, they are not very close. The 

 pubescence is fairly dense about the eyes, forms a conspicuous 

 median line on the pronotum and is dense on the sides, and 

 forms numerous irregular spots close to or conjoined with the 

 suture, towards the sides the spots (often consisting of but 

 two or three hairs) are smaller and much less conspicuous to 

 the naked eye, on the sides of the sterna the pubescence is 

 denser than elsewhere ; there is a narrow nude space on each 

 side of the metasternum where it joins the episternum (but 

 the episternum itself is uniformly clothed, except that a very 

 small narrow spot — usually concealed by . the elytra — is 

 sometimes visible) ; on each of the four basal segments of 

 abdomen there is an elongated nude spot towards each side. 

 On many specimens the median clothing of the pronotum is 

 more stramineous than white, and it is occasionally inter- 

 rupted in the middle. The male differs from the female in 

 having slightly wider prothorax, slightly narrower elytra and. 

 conspicuously thinner front femora. 



Two specimens (A), from Lucindale have the head and 

 prothorax with whitish pubescence, rather thickly scattered 

 about and the median clothing unusually dark and con- 

 spicuous, on the elytra the subsutural spots are larger and 

 more confluent than usual, and the other spots are also 

 unusually numerous, their metasternal episterna are uniformly 

 clothed. Two other Lucindale specimens (B), agree with A, 

 except that each metasternal episternum has a conspicuous 

 nude spot; on one of them also the rostrum is almost black. 

 A specimen (C), from Kilkerran (Blackburn's collection) is 

 unusually small, and has the subsutural spots less numerous 

 than usual. One (D), from Quorn (Blackburn's collection), 

 has elytral clothing as on C, but each metasternal episternum 

 with a conspicuous nude spot and the rostrum quite black. 

 One (E), from Kangaroo Island, has a few spots touching the 

 suture, but none towards the sides, a conspicuous nude spot on 

 each metasternal episternum and the rostrum black. Another 



