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A. semissus, Pasc. There appears to have been an error 

 in labelling the type here. Pascoe's specimen labelled "Kiama," 

 and bearing his name label with the word "type," is Hope's 

 anthracinus, and his own ellipsoides (of which there is no 

 specimen definitely labelled "type") merely one with a tem- 

 porary label "ellipsoides." Of semissus there is also a speci- 

 men bearing Pascoe's temporary label, "semissus," with no 

 locality. I take it that the temporary labels indicate the 

 true types (in other cases they have not always been replaced 

 by final labels), and that the final label has been wrongly 

 attached. In this case the types bear out the descriptions, 

 otherwise they do not. The two species are readily distin- 

 guished. 



