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The type of albersi (from North Australia) was described 

 as having the humeral and median spots smaller than the 

 others. This is occasionally the case, but usually the median 

 spot is the largest of all. In the figure it is also shown as 

 isolated. This is also sometimes the case with the typical 

 form, but it is usually joined to the suture. The pygidium was 

 described as brown with the sides testaceous, but in the figures 

 of both sexes the pygidium is shown as being dark in the 

 middle, and on each side of same pale, with outer parts again 

 dark. I cannot regard it as more than a variety of eucnemis. 



Nigricollis was described as a variety, but evidently from 

 a common form of the female of eucnemis. No locality for 

 it was given. 



Burmeister ( 29 > stated that Schizorrhina obliquata, Westw:, 

 was the female of eucnemis; but in this he was in error. 



Neoclithria eburneoguttata, Blanch. 

 incana, Mad. 

 PI. xii., fig. 116. 

 A damaged female from Dalby has spots somewhat darker 

 than as described, but in the correct positions. This specimen 

 agrees well with Macleay's description of Cetonia incana, ex- 

 cept that it is slightly smaller. 



POLYSTIGMA OCTOPUNCTATA, Burm. 



ochracea, Westw. 

 PL vii., figs. 25 to 28. 



This species has a small black spot on each side of the 

 prothorax, but on the elytra the markings are somewhat 

 variable. There is, however, always present on each elytron 

 a transverse spot just beyond the middle, and a rounded one 

 close to apex ; adjoining the scutellum there is a narrow streak 

 sometimes appearing to be part of the scutellum itself; close 

 to this there is usually a small oval spot, occasionally con- 

 nected with the black streak, but occasionally absent alto- 

 gether. The shoulders are usually immaculate, but some- 

 times there are two (or one) minute blackish spots on each ; 

 on one specimen before me (fig. 26) there are two spots on 

 the right shoulder, and none on the left. On the pygidium 

 there is always a conspicuous black spot. On the abdomen 

 and sterna the black or infuscate parts are also variable. 



Burmeister recorded the name octopunctata as a manu- 

 script one of Hope's. Westwood in describing ochracea said, 

 "Whether this be a variety of octopunctata, Hope, M.S., I 

 have not at present means of clearly determining ; it seems, 



(29) Handbuch der Entomologie, iii., p. 799. 



