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than feeble clusters of setae, and not supported by tubercular 

 swellings. To the naked eye the elytra have a spotted 

 appearance, but this is due to small patches of golden scales ; 

 the patches on some specimens are brilliantly golden, or 

 greenish-golden, but on others are whitish with a slight 

 golden gloss, and the amount of surface they cover varies 

 considerably; the scales among which they are set are sooty- 

 brown or black, but on the apical slope the scales are entirely 

 dark. Many other parts of the body and appendages are 

 also supplied with golden scales, but without the spotted 

 appearance of the elytra. In some lights each elytral punc- 

 ture appears to have a small shining granule on each side, 

 but with greasy or abraded specimens these tend to disappear : 

 on such specimens also the golden patches diminish in size 

 and brilliance. The granules are occasionally traceable on 

 the typical form, but not on fasciatus, which species the 

 variety approaches in sculpture, although at present I cannot 

 look upon that species as a variety of fasciculatvx. Two other 

 specimens have the scales on the upper-surface entirely 

 golden, with a purplish tinge; on another the scales are 

 white, with a golden or purplish tinge, becoming .greenish 

 on the sides. 



Leptops vacillans, Lea. 



The types of this species were supposed to be from 

 Queensland, but there were two. specimens of the species in 

 the Blackburn Collection labelled as from Western Australia. 



Leptops globicollis, Lea. 

 Numerous specimens from Dalby differ from the type of 

 this species in being larger (up to 20 mm.) and with all the 

 joints of the funicle longer than wide. 



Leptops contrarius, Blackb, 

 PL xxxv iii., figs. 127 to 132. 

 In general appearance many specimens of this species are 

 extremely close to the variety carinatus of duponti; but the 

 suddenly terminated intermediate carinae of rostrum are 

 distinctive. Like so many of the species with armed breast 

 it is very variable in length (16 to 33 mm.) and as to the 

 tubercles and carinae of the elytra. Mr. Brown lias taken 

 numerous specimens at Cue. 



Leptops colossus, Pasc. 

 PI. xxxviii., figs. 135 to 137. 

 The white scales on this species with age tend to become 

 of a muddy-brown, especially on specimens at all greasy. 



