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Sydney to the late Rev. T. Blackburn that were identified 

 by him as belonging to the species, and some of these are 

 still in his collection labelled as parallel a. In the description 

 he says "squamis pallidis (certu adspectu subcupreis) vestita, 

 his in elytris seriatim dispositis, in prothorace . . . sat 

 piliformibus." In his table of the species he says ''elytra 

 scarcely, if at all, wider than prothorax." The specimens 

 now standing under the name in his collection, however, have 

 the elytra slightly but distinctly wider than the prothorax. 



I have previously had mixed with parallela, and have 

 doubtless distributed as such, specimens of a closely-allied 

 species, now named soror, which differs in having the elytral 

 clothing of a similar nature to that of the prothorax, instead 

 of in the form of fairly stout setae. 



MlSOPHRICE SQTJAMIVENTRIS, Lea. 



Variety A. Mr. Griffith has taken, near Adelaide, 

 numerous specimens of this species, but differing from the 

 typical form in having almost all the scales on the upper- 

 surface of a brilliant golden colour, sometimes with a rosy 

 gloss. On the sides of the under-surface and on the legs 

 many of the scales also are golden, but rather less decidedly 

 so. The white scales on the elytra on several specimens 

 appear like a fascia in the middle, with the fascia bifurcating 

 at the fifth interstice; but generally have a somewhat zig-zag 

 appearance, as on the type. 



Variety B. Two specimens, from Kangaroo Island, have 

 the scales on the upper-surface mostly of a rather obscure 

 coppery-green or dull-green, mixed with silvery-white. On 

 the under-surface most of the scales are of a silvery-blue, but 

 with here and there a brilliantly golden one. 



MlSOPHRICE CLATHRATA, Lea. 



Numerous specimens of this species have recently been 

 taken at Adelaide, Mount Lofty, and Port Lincoln. Some 

 of these have the prothorax obscurely diluted with red. 



MlSOPHRICE TUBERCULATA, n. Sp. 



Dull reddish-brown, antennas and apex of rostrum paler. 

 Moderately densely but somewhat irregularly clothed with 

 white or whitish scales. 



Rostrum rather long and moderately curved, basal half 

 with fine ridges and numerous partially concealed punctures; 

 elsewhere shining and with a few small punctures in feeble 

 rows. Prothorax almost as long as wide, sides gently 

 rounded, base somewhat wider than apex ; with dense, round 



