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the species (in an unpublished table by the late Rev. T. 

 Blackburn) could only be referred to Metanastes. Excluding 

 the head the general appearance of the species is like a very 

 large Metanastes, australis, Blackb., and the curious process 

 behind the front coxae is much the same as on that species, 

 but the head is very different, and there are many other slight 

 differences. Of the four specimens before me one has a median 

 line very faintly indicated on the pronotum, two have it just 

 traceable about the base, and from the other it is absent. The 

 front claws of the female are simple ; on the male one claw is 

 much thicker than the other and much more curved ; on the 

 front tibiae there are two strong teeth, then a small one, then 

 a large one, and then one or two small ones; the pygidium has 

 dense punctures on both sexes, but on the female they are 

 larger and more crowded than on the male, and the female 

 has on it a conspicuous transverse ridge that is barely indicated 

 on the male. The horns on the head of the male are rather 

 more than half the length of the front tibiae on two specimens, 

 but are rather less on the type. 



Chlorobapta frontalis, Don. 

 PL xxvii., fig. 90. 

 There are in the National Museum two males from 

 Kookynie and Norseman, and one in the South Australian 

 Museum from Ankertell, that I cannot satisfy myself are 

 really distinct from frontalis; but they differ from the more 

 ordinary forms of that species in having. the submedian tooth 

 of the front tibiae much more acute, and the strigae of the 

 pygidium more conspicuous. The markings are of a clear 

 sulphur-yellow, not the dingy shade of yellow that the green 

 markings often turn to with age or improper treatment, and 

 Mr. Horace W. Brown assures me this is the natural colour 

 of living specimens; frcmtalis, however, is such an extremely 

 variable species, that it does not appear desirable to describe 

 these specimens as representing a new species, or even to give 

 them a varietal name. 



Diaphonia euclensis, Blackb. 

 Mr. \V. du Boulay has a specimen of this species in which 

 the prothoracic blotch is reduced to a slight infuscation at the 

 apical third, 



Anoplognathus prasinus. Cast., formerly Paranonca.( 16 > 



PL xxvii., fig. 68. 

 The history of this species is somewhat complicated ; at 

 one time it was regarded as a New Zealand species, and a 



(16) Hist. Nat., ii., 1835-40, p. 143. 



