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very feeble or altogether absent. The clothing also is gene- 

 rally denser on the hind tibiae, than on those of the female. 



The type was described as having the prothorax "piceo 

 marginibus atris" and the elytral grooves as filled with fulvous 

 hairs. The exact length was not stated, but the figure, ap- 

 parently life-size, measures 34 mm. The figure also has the 

 prothorax coloured a dingy-red. 



Carinata. I have not referred to the original description 

 of carinata (noted as a variety in Masters' Catalogue), but 

 in one of the late Rev. T. Blackburn's note-books, reference 

 is made to the fact that carinata was "deliberately founded 

 upon the type of philipsii " 



Schreibersii. A specimen, sent to me as schreibersi by 

 Mr. Arrow, agrees very well with the typical form, and agrees 

 well with Thomson's description. It does not appear to be 

 worthy of even a varietal name. Thomson gave its length 

 as 29-31 mm., and stated that it was larger than philipsii, 

 evidently having a small specimen of the latter before him. 

 In Masters' Catalogue the name appears under Schizorrhina. 



Kirbyi. This is the commonest form of the species. It 

 has the derm entirely black, and clothing pale-flavous. 



Donovani. This variety was named from a small specimen 

 with the prothorax red and hairy. A specimen that agrees 

 very well with Thomson's description is in the South Austra- 

 lian Museum, labelled as carinata in the late Rev. T. Black- 

 burn's writing; it measures 23 mm. A still smaller (19 mm.) 

 specimen is in the National Museum, Melbourne. 



Macleayi. This form appears to be common in the Cairns 

 district and elsewhere in Northern Queensland. Specimens are 

 usually large, with the clothing conspicuously reddish- 

 ochreous, and usually concealing the outer ridge on each 

 side of the elytra. It is a glorious variety. A female of 

 it from the late Rev. T. Blackburn's collection was marked 

 as having been named by Kraatz. It was recorded as from 

 Western Australia, but probably in error. So far as I am 

 aware no specimen of the species or any of its varieties have 

 been taken elsewhere than in Queensland, New South Wales, 

 Victoria, or South Australia. As regards the latter State, 

 there is a specimen of the variety kirbyi labelled as from 

 Hahndorf. 



Trichaulax concinna, Janson. 



A specimen from Carnot Bay, of this beautiful species, 

 is in the National Museum, Melbourne. It has a wide, shallow 

 depression along the middle of the abdomen, and so is a male. 

 Janson noted certain parts as having a coppery tinge ; but all 

 parts of the Carnot Bay specimen have a coppery tinge in cer- 

 tain lights. 



