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Catasarcus armatus, Blackb. 



Six specimens before me, from Kalgoorlie, are evidently 

 in better condition than the type was; four of them have 

 the elytra at the base densely clothed (mostly in three con- 

 spicuous patches) with ochreous scales, having, on close 

 examination, a somewhat golden glitter, and similar scales 

 rather thickly scattered elsewhere. Along the middle of the 

 prothorax there is usually a conspicuous line of bluish scales; 

 three of the specimens have the shoulders tuberculate, but on 

 the others they are unarmed. 



Catasarcus sericeus, Blackb. 



A specimen, from Kuminin, possibly belongs to this 

 species. Its scales, whilst mostly greenish, are considerably 

 mixed with sooty and somewhat golden ones ; the post- 

 humeral tubercle (directly above the middle of the meta- 

 sternum) is an obtuse swelling only, instead of a spine, as 

 on most species of the genus. 



Amisallus nodosus, Er. 

 A specimen, from Tasmania, agrees with Erichson's 

 description of nodosus, but in addition to the large elytral 

 tubercles described by him it has several small ones on the 

 suture about summit of apical slope; these were not men- 

 tioned, but their presence on any species of the Leptopsides 

 is of importance as an aid to identification, and nodosus is 

 the only described species of Amisallus with such tubercles. 

 A specimen from Mount Tambourine (Queensland) has similar 

 sutural tubercles to the Tasmanian one, but the interior row 

 on the right elytron is composed of five, and on the left elytron 

 of seven, large tubercles. 



Amisallus whitei, Waterh., var. 



A specimen, from Cairns, differs from the typical form 

 of this species in having a cluster of four conjoined tubercles, 

 forming an irregular mass on each shoulder; the furrow on 

 its prothorax is distinct, narrow, and scarcely interrupted, 

 and the inter-ocular tubercles smaller and more obtuse than 

 usual. 



Lipothyrea chloris, Pasc, var. 



Five specimens from Charters Towers differ from the 

 typical form of this species in having the green scales replaced 

 by ashen ones, and the size decreasing to 6 mm. ; the general 

 appearance of the smaller specimens is much like that of 

 arrowi, but they are without the conspicuous long setae of 

 that species. 



