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Australia: Adelaide; Tasmania: Swansea, Launceston (A. 

 M. Lea). Type, I. 2086. 



Two specimens of this species were previously somewhat 

 doubtfully identified as abraded specimens of setulosa; but 

 numerous (over fifty) fresh ones now convince me that the 

 entire absence of short erect setae from the elytra is the 

 normal condition of the species, and by this character it may 

 be distinguished from setulosa. Submetallica is a decidedly 

 larger species, with much paler elytra; dissentanea, from 

 Western Australia, is rather close, but differs in the colour 

 and clothing of prothorax; clathrata is a smaller and more 

 regularly-clothed species. The description of munda, from 

 Western Australia, agrees well with it, but it differs from a 

 Western Australian specimen now before me (and which csr- 

 tainly is munda) in being distinctly wider, and with the elytra 

 slightly dilated posteriorly; the pale parts are also more 

 brightly reddish. The suture, sides, and a subtriangular por- 

 tion of the base of the elytra are black or infuscated, and on 

 the dark parts the clothing is denser and more squamose in 

 character than on the pale parts, which are frequently 

 glabrous, but usually with rather sparse depressed setae. The 

 middle of the metasternum and of the abdomen is glabrous, 

 the rest of the under-surface usually being clothed with bluish 

 scales, even when those on the upper-surface are green. The 

 scales on some specimens have a distinct glitter. They 

 appear to be very easily abraded, many specimens having the 

 upper-surface wholly or partially glabrous. The sexes are 

 very feebly defined; the female is usually slightly larger and 

 wider than the male, the rostrum slightly longer, and abdomen 

 more convex. The specimens (two) fro*n Adelaide, have the 

 elytra more brightly reddish than usual, and many of the 

 scales of a glittering green. 



MlSOPHEICE INCONSTANS, n. Sp. 



Black, some parts more or less obscurely reddish. Rather 

 sparsely clothed. 



Rostrum moderately long, thin, and curved; punctures 

 and ridges much as in preceding species. Prothorax and 

 elytra somewhat as in that species. Length, l^-l^ mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (A. M. Lea). Type, 

 I. 2087. 



A somewhat variable species. The elytra are usually of 

 a dingy brownish-red, with the suture and a fairly large sub- 

 triangular basal space black, but sometimes they are much 

 darker, so that the sutural and basal markings are very ill- 

 defined. The abdomen and legs (but the tarsi are always 

 dark) also vary from a dingy reddish-brown to black, but 



