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are now eight in the Museum that appear to belong to the 

 species, and these indicate that the colour is normally of a 

 rather pale-green, and with the elytral setae fairly conspicuous. 

 Bleached specimens look much like small ones of modestus, 

 but differ in having the rostrum somewhat thinner, prothorax 

 slightly longer, and elytra less cylindrical. The fresh speci- 

 mens are all from Melville Island (G. F. Hill and W. D. 

 Dodd), and four of them at least were taken on acacia flowers. 



Myllocerus aurifex, Pasc. 

 abundans, Lea. 



Mr. Arrow has kindly sent a specimen from the Pascoe 

 collection as M . aurifex ; it is the species I subsequently named 

 abundans, but from its description I imagined it to be a very 

 different looking insect, not even close to abundans. 



Mr. J. F. Field has taken the species in abundance at 

 Tennant Creek; the specimens from him as a rule are slightly 

 smaller and with paler legs than the type of abundans, but I 

 can find no structural differences. 



Myllocerus speciosus, Blackb. 

 An unusually large (7 J mm.) specimen of this species, 

 from the Coen River, has the black prothoracic vittee reduced 

 to a fairly large spot on each side of the base. 



Myllocerus exilis, Lea. 



On re-examination of the antennae of this species I find 

 that the first joint of the funicle was wrongly described and 

 tabulated as being shorter than the second; although it 

 appears to be so from certain directions. From positions 

 where the full lengths of the joints are visible the second is 

 seen to be slightly shorter than the first. Mr. W. D. Dodd has 

 recently taken the species in abundance on the Fortescue 

 River. 



Myllocerus mastersi, Lea, var. ( ?) 



Seven specimens from Darwin (G. F. Hill's 152, F. P. 

 Dodd, and H. H. D. Griffith) represent either a variety of 

 this species, or an extremely closely allied one. They have 

 the legs and antennae decidedly paler (almost flavous, except- 

 ing the club) and the antennae shorter (although the joints 

 appear to have the same proportions, inter se ), with the scape 

 less strongly arched. 



Myllocerus pollux, Lea. 

 A specimen from the Stewart River (Northern Queensland) 

 appears to belong to this species, but differs from the type in 



