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dashes is also present, and the peculiar colouration of the 

 punctures is the same; the general colour of the elytra is 

 brownish, like that of the thorax of torridus, Pasc. Our 

 series of torridus contains eight examples — Cape York (1), 

 Torres Strait (1), Murray Island (3), Port Moresby (1), Rock- 

 hampton (1), Northern Australia (1) — which hardly differ ex- 

 cept in the depth of the red of legs and under-side (almost 

 black in some), while the types of hicolor and tardus &\?tQT 

 from them in the colour of the large punctures on the elytra 

 and their tendency to form dashes; the differences between 

 these, as indicated, are very slight and doubtfully specific." 

 From the above, and from the specimen sent, I should say 

 th.a,t tardus , Blkb. = 6*co^or, Fab,, and that torridus, Pasc, is 

 a variety of the same species, having reddish legs and under- 

 side, with the fovese concolorous with the elytra. The name 

 of Pascoe's species should be retained for this distinct variety. 



A. minutus, Pasc. Mr. Waterhouse very kindly com- 

 pared the types, and writes: " = rutilipes, Blkb., which is like 

 yours. Type of minutus is a little smaller, and I fancy the 

 punctuation is a trifle finer, but they seem to be the same 

 species." 



A. maurulus, Pasc. A specimen sent agrees exactly with 

 specimens I had determined from the Illawarra, New South 

 Wales, as pusillus, Pasc, and there is little to distinguish 

 these species in their respective descriptions, both from the 

 same locality, except a slight difference in colour and size, 

 maurulus having the elytra ''dark blue-black" and length 

 3 to 3 J lines, while in pusillus Pascoe says ''elytra nearly 

 opaque, brownish-black," length 2| lines. 



A. frenchi, Blkb., Mr. Blair writes, "seems to be another 

 such erratic (as uniformi§ and alienus). It is somewhat 

 variable, but we have many specimens from New Guinea, 

 Gilolo, Ternate, Obi Islands. There are also other allied 

 forms in this region, and these all seem to be more at home 

 there than amongst the Victorian fauna." Certainly amongst 

 the many hundreds of specimens examined and captured from 

 every Australian State I have never met with it, so that 

 a,gain its locality requires confirmation. 



Supplementary Notes on Amarygmin^. 



Amarygmus (Erotylus) morio, Fab. In a later communi- 

 cation Mr. K. G. Blair writes : "I have discovered another 

 type of Fabricius ; the specimen was apart from the others in 

 the Banks Collection, and had been quite overlooked by me. 

 E. morio is identical with the specimen sent from Murray 

 Island, and specimens from New Guinea have also been 



