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on each, and that is long and acute, very different to either 

 of those on the female. The abdomen is gently depressed 

 along the middle, and the pygidium is normally strigose. 



Lenosoma fulgens, Macl. 

 var. viridicupreum, Macl. 



The type of fulgens was described as viridi-cupreous, with 

 under-surface greener than upper, and the tibiae and tarsi 

 piceous. No mention was made of the prothoracic impressions. 

 In describing viridicupreum Macleay stated that its sculpture 

 "is the same as in fulgens, but it differs from it in being of 

 a broader form and very different colour." But I cannot 

 regard it as more than a variety of fulgens. The female is 

 certainly considerably wider than the male, and usually longer, 

 and the colour is not alike on any of the five specimens before 

 me. The colours of the under-surface and legs vary to a certain 

 extent, but less notably so than on the upper-surface. 



On one male the upper-surface is uniformly brassy, ex- 

 cept that the suture and sides in some lights have a slight 

 greenish gloss. 



Another male has the upper-surface not quite so bright, 

 and the elytra conspicuously darker than the prothorax, ap- 

 pearing in fact almost black, with a brassy gloss, more pro- 

 nounced towards the apex than elsewhere. 



On one female the entire upper-surface is of a brassy- 

 green, but the head and prothorax in some lights are more 

 brassy than green. 



A female, in the National Museum, Melbourne, is purplish- 

 blue, in places purplish-green. Seen from behind every part of 

 its upper-surface appears to be of a deep-purple, but from 

 directly above the head and prothorax appear to be deep 

 metallic-green, changing with the point of view through blue 

 to purple. 



Another female, in the same Museum, is of a brilliant 

 golden-red, uniform on the head and prothorax (except that 

 the sides of the latter in some lights have a slight brassy- 

 green gloss), but the elytra in places have a brassy-green gloss, 

 in places changing to purplish-bronze, or purple, or blue. 

 This specimen is unfortunately almost legless, but it is one 

 of the finest Cetonias I have ever seen. 



Mr. R. E. Turner informs me that he has seen the species 

 in abundance in certain seasons on a common shrub with clus- 

 ters of small white flowers at the edge of the scrub at Mackay. 

 The various colour varieties are seen freely mating ; the green 

 form is the prevalent one, but the bronze one is fairly plenti- 

 ful, and the dark-blue form is the rarest. 



