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widely-separated hairs or setae, on the female they are more 

 numerous, but by no means dense. The front claw- joint of the 

 male is deeply notched twice on the inner-side, leaving a thin 

 truncated projection between the notches; the larger claw is 

 strongly curved, from some directions appearing thin and 

 acutely pointed, from others triangular and from others four- 

 sided ; its basal appendix is large, and also varies with the 

 point of view ; the smaller claw is very much smaller than the 

 other, but its basal appendix is much as those on the other 

 tarsi. The antennae usually have the club distinctly darker 

 than the basal joints. There are at least five specimens of each 

 of the following colour forms before me. 



Form 1, d • Flavo-testaceous; elytra black, with a con- 

 spicuous bloom, abdomen blackish, metasternum more or less 

 deeply infuscated, four hind tibiae, except at base, and tarsi 

 blackish, or at least deeply infuscated. Includes the type. 



Form 2, <S . Flavo-testaceous; elytra black, with 

 sericeous bloom very conspicuous and almost golden, an 

 obscure reddish spot, sometimes extended into a short vitta, 

 on each side of the scutellum ; metasternum, abdomen, hind 

 legs, and middle tibiae (except at base) and tarsi black or 

 infuscated. On this form there are usually two large infus- 

 cated blotches on the prothorax. 



Form 3, <S . Flavo-testaceous; elytra of a lurid reddish- 

 brown, abdomen and parts of four hind legs black or deeply 

 infuscated. The bloom of the elytra is rather less conspicuous 

 than on the other forms, and their lurid-red colour is some- 

 times partly extended on to the prothorax. Three males have 

 the elytra of the same shade as in this form, except that the 

 sides are infuscated ; but of these two have the prothorax 

 deeply infuscated, and of these again one (the only specimen 

 examined from Stradbroke Island) has the base of the head 

 infuscated. There are only three females before me, all 

 without bloom; they all have the under-surface entirely pale, 

 and the dark parts of the legs confined to the four hind tibiae 

 and tarsi ; two have the upper-surface entirely pale, but on 

 the third the elytra are black. 



Telura. 



In Blackburn's table of the subtribe Sericoides ( 13 ) Telura 

 is distinguished by "femora glabrous and very slender and 

 elongate." But the femora of the only then known species, 

 vitiicollis , although elongate, are certainly not glabrous, as 

 some bristles are present on each of them. 



(13) Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 1897, p. 32. 



