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is continued almost to the base and to the sides of the 

 adjacent interstices. The head is always black, but the 

 rostrum varies from a rather bright-red to a dark-brown. 

 The abdomen of the female is entirely pale; in the male it is 

 sometimes entirely pale, sometimes entirely dark, and some- 

 times more or less deeply stained with black at the sides. 



The clothing of the elytra is of two kinds; pale depressed 

 stout setae, on the larger specimens having a distinctly spotted 

 appearance; and short and dark suberect setae, indistinct from 

 above, but very distinct from the sides. On the other parts 

 of the body the clothing is white, or silvery- white, sometimes 

 with a golden gloss. Green scales are apparently always 

 absent. 



The prothorax is comparatively smaller, and the elytra 

 decidedly larger, than in others of the genus. The elytra are 

 decidedly wider than the prothorax at the base, and dilate 

 hindwards (more noticeably in the female than in the male) 

 till attaining their maximum width at about the apical third, 

 where the width is about double that of the prothorax in the 

 female, and almost double in the male. 



On Mount Lofty Mr. S. H. Curnow took numerous speci- 

 mens that apparently belong to this species, but differ in 

 being considerably smaller (l|-2^- mm. as against 2^-4 mm. 

 of normal specimens) and with the elytral markings consist- 

 ing of a single spot on each side, usually rounded, and never 

 extending more than one-third of the distance to the base. 

 The elytral clothing is of two kinds, as on the normal forms, but 

 the pale setae are. regularly disposed, instead of forming more 

 or less distinct spots. 



On Kangaroo Island I recently took numerous specimens 

 very similar to the Mount Lofty ones in size and general 

 appearance, but with the clothing much sparser, and semi- 

 erect setae almost absent from the elytra. One specimen from 

 the island has the sterna entirely pale, but this may be due 

 to immaturity. 



Misophrice munda, Blackb. 



A specimen from Lawson (New South Wales) probably 

 belongs to this species, but differs from a Western Australian 

 one < 48 ) under examination in being slightly larger, the scales 

 on the head and prothorax somewhat golden, instead of green 

 (a common variation in the genus), and the sides of the elytra 

 more conspicuously covered with green scales. 



(48) This specimen agrees well with the original description ; 

 the type was unique in the late Rev. T. Blackburn's collection, 

 and is now in the British Museum. 



