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this species. It is quite clear to me that Spinola did not identify 
it correctly, and I should say that in all probability Newman 
himself mixed two species under the name. Newman's very brief 
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examined ux long series of several Aulici to enable me 
to say that it is of great value. To "this clue may be added 
another in the fiot that Hiit all the Cleride described by 
— are Victorian species, and still another in the size (long., 
*; of an inch) being stated. Now I have taken somewhat plenti- 
conspicuous contrast. My opinion is that Newman had both 
these insects before him and did not observe their specific differ- 
ence. One of them is about of the size Newman quotes, and 
of deep violet blue colour with elongate antenn®,—the other 
is decidedly smaller and of a bright green colour with shorter 
Newman says “Colore instabilis, nunc viridis, nunc 
and mentions no other character that is not generic 
except the mentio colouring of the front legs. As the size given 
is that of the larger insect just referred to I feel little doubt of 
its having been that on which the species instabilis was founded 
and conjecture that either Newman had before him also a green 
variety (unknown to me) of it, or that he had € on the 
smaller species referred to above and overloo ecific 
difference from the specimen on which he founded his Ihn 
(or at all events his measurement). 
I feel very little doubt that A. € Spinola, is a species 
€ occurs in ee parts of S. Australia and even extends into 
- rn part of Western die and is much more 
ml in posue than I have found the species to be which I 
regard as instabilis, Newm. Its front tibia are not of two 
colours divided longitudinally, but are (as Spinola describes 
them) wholly dark except near the apex where they have a ten- 
dency to become testaceous. The e species differs from that men- 
tio : : 
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apical one-fourth), the ninth and tenth rows being separated by a 
continuous distinct carina quite into the apical one-fourth of the 
elytra. As Spinola described a colour-var. of this insect under 
the name episcopalis, this latter may now stand as the name of 
the species. 
