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Q. Differs in being more robust, head with crowded 
punctures except at extreme base, where only are they 
individually distinct, clypeus more transverse, club of 
antennae less parallel-sided and only about two-thirds of the 
length of front tibiae, prothorax with larger and more numer- 
ous punctures, and the larger claw of the front tarsi 
conspicuously cleft at apex. 
but only one female. 
DASCILLIDAE. 
MACROHELODES. i; | 
The species of this genus are usually very variable m 
colour, and to a certain extent in size; Tasmanian spoon 
are also usually larger, and frequently darker than mainlan 
ones of the same species. ? 
MACROHELODES LUCIDUS, Blackb. 
The type of this species was described as having the 
upper-surface black, except for the narrowly reddish suture 
of elytra. Of two cotypes in the Museum one is of a very 
two co 
dark brown, with a slight bluish gloss, and the suture some- 
