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I have little doubt of the synonymy of the seven names. 



(13) After my recent experiences in the examination of 

 long series, I am compelled to include varicollis, Cart., as a 

 variety of yarelli, C. and G., though the name should stand 

 for this local form, of which Mr. Duboulay took a large 

 number, all more or less marked as stated in its description. 



(14) I agree with Blackburn that unicincta is the male, 

 flavicollis the female, of the same species. 



(15) Saunders' figure and description of co stalls proclaim 

 its identity with impressicollis, Macl., a fairly common 

 Queensland insect. 



(16) I am a little doubtful here. There is a slight colour 

 difference, as the suture and apex of moribunda are said to 

 be narrowly black, this marking being absent from dispar, 

 Blackb. This variation is so common in analagous cases — 

 e.g., rufipennis, Kirby, that I think I am justified in giving 

 this synonymy. 



(17) I have seen many specimens which include all these 

 names and which form continuous series. 



(18) (25) (26) (27) (30) (32) (35) (41) (43) (46) (47) 

 (55) (56) (60) In all these cases Dr. E. W. Ferguson has 

 been kind enough to confirm my own impressions by an 

 examination of types in the British Museum. As regards (32), 

 I have previously published the synonymy of sternalis, 

 Blackb., with distincta, Saund. Dr. Ferguson's note on 

 inermis, Kerr., states: — "There were two spp. included under 

 inermis, both marked types; one = distincta, Saund. =deli- 

 ciosa, Kerr.; the other = nova, Kerr.; baliola seems little 

 more than a colour variety of distincta, Saund., with broader 

 bands and basal elytral border." 



(20) I have followed Kerremans in placing acutipennis, 

 Thorns, —pnoducta, Saund., though the former name has been 

 long given in Australia to the species described as insir/nis, 

 Blackb. 



(21) *S'. delta, Thorns (vide note in tabulation). 



(22) I am only slightly in doubt as to the correct inclu- 

 sion of dawsonensis in this ; but there is only a slight colour- 

 difference, the addition of an apical spot on each elytron, 

 and this variation is common in other species. 



(23) S. variopieta, Thorns. This form is well known to 

 collectors as a variety of semicincta, C. and G. I have taken 

 the two forms in company frequently, at Medlow, Blue 

 Mountains. 



(24) S. electa, Kerr., cannot be more than a variety of 

 laena, Thorns. 



(28) See note in the tabulation. 



