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Zonitis cowleyi, Blackb. 

 A specimen from Cape York, recently taken by Mr. W. 

 D. Dodd, evidently belongs to this species; an unusually dis- 

 tinct one on account of its very large eyes, rostrum-like 

 prolongation of muzzle, and very long palpi. The antennae 

 are thin and slightly pass the tip of the elytra, the second ( 12 > 

 joint is, if anything, a trifle longer than the third, but dis- 

 tinctlv shorter than the fourth, and the following ones are 

 equal or subequal in length. 



Zonitis splendida, Fairm. 

 Z. gloriosa, Blackb. 

 Two specimens from the Macleay Museum labelled "Wes- 

 tern Australia" agree well with the description of splendida. 

 In Blackburn's table ( 15) the species was separated from 

 gloriosa by the length of the head, but a specimen in the 

 South Australian Museum bearing his name-label "gloriosa" 

 agrees well with the ones from the West. The punctures of 

 the prothorax are fairly distinct, but they are certainly fine. 

 On the Western specimens the muzzle is subtriangular in 

 shape, and on the Southern one parallel-sided ; but these 

 differences are due solely to the mandibles being tightly 

 clenched on the former, and partly open on the latter. (1 ^ The 

 general shape and colours (both unusual) are identical. 



Zonitis pallicolor, Fairm. 



There are specimens of this species in the Museum from 

 Victoria, South and Western Australia. An occasional speci- 

 men has the abdomen dark, and such specimens agree with 

 the brief description of fuscicornis (described originally from 

 Queensland). If synonymous fuscicornis has priority. 



Zonitis hake^:, n. sp. 



Black, prothorax flavous-red. Upper-surface glabrous. 



Head elongate, widest across eyes, transversely and 

 longitudinally impressed between antennae; from clypeal 

 suture to apex of labrum almost as long as from same to neck. 



(12) Only the two basal joints were on the type. 



(13) Although tabulated by Blackburn, it was unknown to him 

 as such. The utility of including in a table species unknown 

 ■except by description to the author of same has always appeared 

 to me to be undesirable, unless there can be absolutely no doubt 

 .as to the correctness of the position assigned to it in such tables. 



(14) The sides of the mandibles forming the margins of the 

 muzzle, it naturally follows that the apparent shape of the latter 

 is altered by the opening or shutting of the former, and apparently 

 in many descriptions no allowance has been made for same. 



