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oblique swelling just in front of each eye? 3. Are the large 

 elytral tubercles in the same positions as the specimen sent 

 of rostralis? As affirmative answers were given to all, there 

 is no doubt but that the names are synonymous. 



Leptops hypocritus, Pasc. 

 A co-type, sent for examination by Mr. Arrow, has 

 clothing not at all green, the prothorax with a feeble median 

 (not subbasal) carina, with two distinct transverse interrupted 

 impressions; each elytra with three undulated (scarcely sub- 

 tuberculate) ridges, of which one commences on the shoulder 

 as an obtuse tubercle. The rostrum was described as "in 

 medio canaliculato," the middle of that of the co-type seems 

 to be narrowly impressed near the base, but near the apex 

 it appears to be feebly carinated ; regarding it as non-carinated 

 it would in my table (14) be placed with setosus, with which 

 it has scarcely anything in common; regarding it as carinated 

 it would be placed in L, from all the species of which it 

 is at once distinguished by having but the humeral tubercles. 

 Probably, however, the male possesses characters that would 

 cause it to be referred to a different section. Quite certainly 

 it is not the species I incorrectly had as hypocritus, and so 

 commented upon. ( 15 ) 



Leptops acutispinis, Pasc. 

 A very distinct species, the original description, how- 

 ever, is not quite accurate (judging by a co-type on loan 

 from the British Museum), as the rostrum is described as 

 "robust, a slender somewhat abbreviated carina in front"; 

 whereas it is comparatively thin and has a median carina 

 traceable from the base almost to the apical triangle. 



Leptops polyacanthus, Pasc. 

 A specimen from Cunnamulla appears to belong to this 

 species, but has the elytral tubercles more acute than usual 

 and the inter-ocular elevations very feeble instead of strongly 

 pronounced. 



Leptops fasctculatus, Lea, var. pulchripennis, n. var. 



In the Cairns district I obtained numerous specimens 

 that appear to represent a variety of fascicvlatus; they differ 

 from the typical form in having the elytra non-fasciculate, 

 or at least with the fascicles so reduced as to be little more 



(14) Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, 1906, p. 316. 

 OS) Ante, 1914, p. 296. 



