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I send a specimen that agrees with it for your examination." 

 [ = H. maculata^ Haag., which thus disappears as a synonym; 

 while H. canescens, Blackb. fnec Hope), also my Revision, 

 p. 80, requires a name, and is described below as //. 

 scutellaris. — H. J. C] 



"A. GouLDii, Hope (type, W. Australia), agrees with a 

 specimen unnamed in British Museum from Cliampion Bay 

 (Duboulay). I send this for your examination." [This is a 

 species of which I have lately seen several in the South Aus- 

 tralian Museum from the Perth district, and which I consider 

 congeneric with Dimnrjihochihis dirersicollis, Borch., and is 

 redescribed below. — H. J. C] 



"A. NIGRICANS, Hope (type female, Port Essington), 

 agrees with specimen (male) unnamed in British Museum 

 from N.W. Australia. This I send for examination." 

 [Redescribed below. — H. J. C] 



"Allecula rufa, Sol. This is a Chilian insect, from 

 Coquimbo." [Borchmann, in the Junk Catalogue, erroneously 

 ascribed this to Australia ; hence Homotrysis rufa, Blackb., 

 is a valid name, and my proposed substitute, H. rubra, is 

 superfluous. — H. J. C] 



Homotrysis arida, Blackb. =//. sitiens, Blackb. Mr. 

 Blair writes, "I see no real point of distinction between Black- 

 burn's species 'arida' and 'sitiens.' " 



[N.B. — Names in italics are synonyms.] 



Synatractus variabilis, Macl. Mr. Lea has lately 

 pointed out to me that this species has tarsal claws entire, not 

 pectinate; a fact which I confirm from examination. More- 

 over, from British Museum specimens, it seems to belong to 

 the genus Casnonidea, Fairm. (Family Lagriidae), of which 

 various species occur from India to New Guinea. The name 

 S;/n-atractus thus disappears from the Australian list, and 

 Macleay's species becomes Casnonidea variahilis, Macl., unless 

 it should prove to be synonymous with one of Fairmaire's 

 species. 



The following are new species, largely from the South 

 Australian Museum or my own collection, examined since the 

 publication of my Revision of the Family : ■ -, 



Chromomoea gracillima, n. sp. 



Elongate, oblong, narrowly tapering behind ; whole sur- 

 face metallic-black, glabrous; base of femora, three basal 

 joints of antennae and palpi testaceous, tibiae also with 

 testaceous band (in one example at least). 



Head densely punctate, in male wider than prothorax, 

 in female as wide as the apex of prothorax ; eyes widely 



