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The elytra has several feeble inequalities, and in my 

 table (in Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1907, p. 133) the species 

 would be associated with mirabilis. It is in fact close to that 

 species, but the middle coxae are not concave internally, and 

 each has a ridge extending from the middle, where it is sub- 

 tuberculate, to the hind end ; the clothing of the abdomen 

 is also shorter and sparser. 



Mandalotus fuligineus, Pasc. (Dysostines). 

 (M. carinativcntris, Lea.) 



Three specimens of this species were sent by the British 

 Museum for examination, one bearing a name label, and one 

 marked as a co-type. All three are males, and have the 

 abdomen carinated, a character not mentioned by Pascoe, 

 but of primary importance in the genus. The specimens cer- 

 tainly belong to M . carinativentris . 



Mr. Blackburn thought that fuligineus was probably a 

 synonym of sterilis, and there is nothing in Pascoe's descrip- 

 tion to warrant exception being taken to that supposition, but 

 if, as I presume, the two named specimens are correctly 

 identified, then fuligineus is certainly not a synonym of 

 ■sterilis, which has the abdomen simple in both sexes. 



Mandalotus Blackburni, Lea. 



A British Museum male of this species is labelled as 

 from Rockhampton (Queensland), but almost certainly in 

 error; a female is labelled as from Tasmania, the type 

 locality. 



Mandalotus niger, Lea. 



A British Museum male, labelled as from Queensland, 

 probably belongs to this species, but its mesosternal process is 

 quite rounded, instead of slightly produced. I should have 

 been inclined to treat it as belonging to a distinct species, 

 but as in all other respects it agrees perfectly with seven 

 males of niger, it is best perhaps to regard it as an accidental 

 variety. 



SUBFAMILY AMYCTERIDES. 



Talaurinus Dameli, Macl. (1865). 

 (T. cariosus, Pasc, 1873.) 



The British Museum sent for examination four specimens 

 of Dameli, one labelled as a co-type of cariosus. In the 

 females of this species the shoulders are somewhat projecting 

 (although not as in Euomus). Pascoe described the elytra 

 as "without a trace of setse." On all the specimens I have 



