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apical joints of the palpi, 
ot much, but distinctly, longer than the second. 
PHYLLOTOCUS RUFICOLLIS, Macl. 
P. sericeus, Macl. 
There are three specimens in the. Australian Museum 
standing as types of sericeus, and all are of the species tabled 
by Blackburn (0) as ruficollis, although he was dubious as to 
his identification of that species; the type of 7 uficollis was 
badly stained, but was partially cleaned for description. It 
1$ certainly not the species Blackburn identified and tabled 
as australis, D) and which he thought might be sericeus. 
PHYLLOTOCUS VARIICOLLIS, Macl. 
Correctly identified and tabled by Blackburn. (2) 
PHYLLOTOCUS BIMACULATUS, Er. 
On the typical form of this species each elytron has 
h pale, completely-enclosed spot of variable size, on the i 
alf; on Tasmanian specimens the spots are usually smaller 
than on mainland ones. 
var. NIGRIPENNIS, n. var. 
T Mr. H. J. Carter and I recently obtained at Strahan 
( asmania) numerous specimens that iffer from the typicai 
orm in having the elytra entirely black; the paler parts are 
also of a brighter red. : 
var. BASALIS, n. var. 
Mr. Aug. Simson obtained at Wentworth Falls (New 
South Wales), in company with typical specimens, numerous 
ca in which two-fifths of the base of the elytra are pale, 
e dark part is usually, but not always, advanced along the 
suture to the base. i 
(0 Trans, Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 1898, p. 24. 
é., 5 
RM ^ pp. 23 and 24. 
