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or at least blackish-brown. The typical and fairly common 

 form. 



Form 2. As 1, except that the elytra are coloured as 

 the prothorax, but with the sides more or less widely infus- 

 cated or black (a specimen of this species is standing, with 

 others, as pusilla in the Macleay Museum, and another is 

 the type male of pallida). This is the most common form of 

 the male ; on some specimens the head is darker than the pro- 

 thorax; the latter may have some slight infuscations, or be 

 even darker than the elytra, and the elytral suture is also 

 sometimes slightly infuscated (thus approaching Form 3). 



Form 3. As 1, but with a pale oblique fascia on each 

 elytron. A fairly common form, but the vittae vary in ex- 

 tent, and the head and prothorax are sometimes as dark as 

 in Form 4. 



Form 4. Coloured as described for the second male of 

 the original specimens, one of which was identified by Macleay 

 as pusilla. A rare form. 



Form 5. As 1, but with two infuscated blotches on the 

 prothorax; the head is also sometimes infuscated. A rather 

 rare form. 



Females. 



Form 6. As 1, except that the abdomen is paler than 

 the metasternum. A rather rare form, one of which is a 

 cotype of the species. 



Form 7. As 6, except that the elytra are bivittate. A 

 cotype female belongs to this form, which is variable and not 

 very common; the other cotype female might also be regarded 

 as belonging to it; one of the females identified by Macleay 

 as pusilla could also be referred to it, although its head and 

 prothorax are dark, but not black. 



Form 8. Entirely pale, except that the tips of some of 

 the tarsal joints and the club of the antennae are more or 

 less infuscated. Tliis is the most common form of the female, 

 and includes the type female of pallida. A rather dark speci- 

 men of it was in error labelled as aphodioides in the Black- 

 burn collection. 



There is also a female from the Blackburn collection that 

 has the elytra pale, but with the margins infuscated : nar- 

 rowly at the base, rather widely at the apex ; much as on 

 Form 2 ; but as there is but one specimen before me it has 

 not been given a number. 



Cheiragra atra, Macl. 



In describing this species Macleay said he had only seen 

 a male of it; but two specimens were pinned through the 

 name label in the Macleay Museum; the type male, and a 



