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received. If you refer to Fabricius' description of morio, it 

 does not appear to agree with the specimen : — 'Antennae fili- 

 formes, atrae. Thorax nitidus, ater, laevis, elytra atra punc- 

 tata striata.' As a matter of fact the type was a dull-black, 

 with hardly a glimmer of metallic lustre, but it seemed to 

 me so like in structure to the insect sent that I thought I 

 would try the effect of a little soap and water. The effect was 

 marvellous, and the thorax and elytra, when washed, show 

 as bright a colour as a modern specimen. The antennae (two 

 joints on one side, three on the other) I dare not wash, but 

 they show distinct signs of red, and I have no doubt would 

 be as red as they should be if cleaned. This shows that the 

 creature must have been in its present dirty condition when 

 it came into Fabricius' hands, and that it is not a change 

 due to the accumulation of years." Mr. Blair's specimen 

 sent, as compared with this, is, in my opinion, one of the 

 many varieties of the species named uniformis, Blkb. From 

 the typical North Queensland form it differs only in (1) the 

 more green-bronze colour of upper-surface, (2) the slightly 

 larger seriate-punctures of elytra, with more irregularity in 

 its striation. This would make uniformis, Blkb., and its 

 synonyms in my table give place to A. morio, Fab., as the 

 earliest name. The name has been unaccountably omitted 

 from the catalogues, e.g., Gemminger and Harold, Masters, 

 Junk. 



Tahle of Amarygmus (Australian species). 



Species marked * not personally examined by the author. 

 Numbers in the columns as in Glial coyterus table, swpra. 



l|58|Proiiotuni black. 

 2 128 1 Elytra black (or so dark as to be 

 indistinguishable from black). 

 Elytra striate. 

 Upper-surface more or less nitid. 



Size large, 12 mm. long tristis, Fab. 



Purplish, var. ohtusus, Pasc. 

 Size smaller, 4-9 mm. long. 



Length greater than twice breadth minutus, Pasc. 



rutilipes, Blkb. 

 Si 16 1 Length less than twice breadth. 

 9jl3lElytral intervals strongly convex. 

 10 j jForm wide and convex, surface 



very nitid carho, n. sp. 



Form less wide. 



Sides of pronotum widely arcuate perplexus, Blkb. 

 1 Sides of pronotum nearly straight 



j (narrowed in front) pinguis, Blkb. 



16i Intervals very lightly convex. 



jEyes approximate semissis, Pasc. 



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