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var. insularis, n. var. 



Mr. H. Hacker obtained on Bribie Island (Queensland) 

 three specimens that are more highly polished than usual, 

 they have duly the apical two-fifths of the elytra infuscated 

 (and not very deeply so) and a slight infuscation about the 

 scutellum ; they are also smaller (5*5-6 mm.) than the typical 

 form. 



Phyllotocus macleayi, Fisch. 



This species occurs in abundance on eucalyptus and other 

 "blossoms in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. 



var. assimilis, Macl. 

 This was considered by Blackburn as a variety only of 

 macleayi, and such is my own opinion. 



var. pallidus, 11. var. 

 Six specimens taken between Karoonda and Peebinga 

 (by Mr. G. E. H. Wright), one from Murray Bridge (by 

 Mr. H. H. D. Griffith), and one from Lyndoch (by Mr. J. 

 G. O. Tepper), differ from the typical form in being entirely 

 pale. 



Phyllotocus luridus, Macl. (formerly Cheiragra). 



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As the claws to the four hind legs of this species are long, 

 thin, and simple the species by Blackburn's generic table of 

 the Sericides must be referred to Phyllotocus. Although 

 Macleay said ''The male and female differ very little," both 

 specimens (presumably the types) standing under the name 

 in the Macleay Museum are males, each having three long 

 antennal rami. The species occurs in Queensland (Mapleton 

 and Blackall Range) as well as in New South Wales, and all 

 those before me are more or less brightly iridescent, the 

 elytra are flavous with the suture, and a variable amount on 

 each side infuscated or black, each of the hind femora has 

 a wide tooth or subtriangular flange at the middle. 



Phyllotocus occidentalis, Blackb. 

 This species occurs in South Australia (Karoonda to 

 Peebinga) as well as in Western Australia; in commenting 

 upon the types Blackburn remarked that the apices of the 

 elytra were "almost devoid of fuscous shading" ; some of the 

 specimens in the museum are entirely devoid of it; such 

 specimens may be readily distinguished from the variety 

 pallidus, of macleayi, by the completely rounded off hind 

 angles of the prothorax, and by the bidentate, instead of 

 tridentate, front tibiae. 



