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smaller, and there is a very slight projection on the smaller 

 front claw. 



II ab. — Queensland: Coen River •(Blackburn collection 

 and W. D. Dodd), Claudie River (J. A. Kershaw). Type, 

 I. 1911. 



The unidentate front tibiae renders it certain that this 

 species should be referred to Calloodes, instead of to 

 Anoplognathus ; the size and shape are much as those of 

 atkinsoni, but the margins of the prothorax and elytra are 

 not purplish, and the clypeus has less strongly upturned 

 margins (these in some lights appear to be diluted with red) ; 

 rayneri has reddish legs, considerably larger, although small 

 punctures, and differs in many other respects. On the male 

 the coppery tinge is scarcely in evidence, but on the females it 

 is very conspicuous, and their elytra in some lights appear to 

 glow fiery-red ; the abdomen and front coxae of the only male 

 under examination are partly reddish, but this may be due to 

 immaturity; the sides of the elytra are feebly wrinkled, the 

 production of their apices is not a sexual character ; all the 

 specimens have a curious appearance as of being covered with 

 wet varnish. 



Repsimus manicatus, Sw. 



The form with red prothorax, and hind tibiae in the male 

 greatly dilated to the apex, and more than twice the width of 

 the base, was considered by Ohaus as not the real manicatus, 

 but aeneus ( 18 ^ ; in this he differed from several previous 

 workers, and here I regard that form as manicatus. 



var. montanus, n. var. 



On several of the higher mountains in Victoria, and on 

 Mount Kosciusko in New South Wales, a form occurs whose 

 upper-surface in entirely brassy-green, or with only the sides 

 of the prothorax obscurely diluted with red, but with the red 

 legs and greatly dilated hind tibiae of the preceding form. 

 Seen from behind the whole upper-surface of some specimens 

 appears blackish-purple. The general colour is very similar to 

 that of many small specimens of purpureipes, but on that 

 species the hind tibiae of the male are scarcely thicker at the 

 apex than in the middle. Mr. Davey took numerous specimens 

 at Bright, in Victoria. 



SCHIZOGNATHUS VIEJDIAENEUS, OhaUS. 



PL xxvii., figs. 74 and 75. 

 The female of this species was unknown to Ohaus. Two 

 specimens (sexes) were received from Bryon Bay (New South 



(i8)Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1904, p. 70, pi. i., fig. 8. 



