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While A. simulation was originally described from Adelaide, it is 

 also a common Victorian species. T have specimens from Ade- 

 laide, Gisborne, and Mallee District, Vic, (see also Blackburn, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1891, p.535). 



A. brevicorne Blessig = ^. neophyta Pasc. — A. virescens Boisd.? 

 (fide Champion, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894, p. 404). 



Mr. Champion has pointed out the synonymy of A. neophyta 

 with A. brevicorne Blessig. I have given above the evidence for 

 considering A. virescens Boisd., as identical with these. If this 

 synonymy should stand, it would give A. virescens precedence. I 

 consider that for the present the name A. brevicorne should 

 remain, since of A. virescens it may be said that the name is 

 misleading, the description futile, and the identity uncertain. 



In 1866 Pascoe described eight species, viz., A. augur ale, A. 

 auratum, A. congestion, A. latum, A. obesum, A. striatum, A. 

 succisum and A. vicarium, which he continued in 1869 with the 

 fourteen species A. aerarium, A. ancilla, A. commodum, A. geniale, 

 A. neophyta, A. orphana, A. pilosum, A. plicigerum, A. reductum, 

 A. repandum, A. ruptnm, A. scutellare, A. scytalicum and A. 

 steropoides; and, in 1870, A. geminatum. Of these I have examined 

 the types and note the following facts. 



A. augur ale Pasc, though closely allied to A. porcatum, Fabr., 

 differs from that species in its brighter metallic green colour, and 

 in having all its raised intervals on the elytra interrupted; in A. 

 porcatum there is generally one or more interval nearest the 

 suture uninterrupted. I have taken this species in quantit} r near 

 Glen Innes, N. S. W. 



A. auratum Pasc. — In the British Museum and in many Aus- 

 tralian Collections (Macleay and Australian Museums; Mr. 

 Simson's Coll.) are specimens labelled A. fossidatum Dupont, 

 which are evidently identical with A. auratum Pasc. The name 

 seems to have come from Macleay himself, possibly as an MS. 

 name, but I can nowhere find any description under the name 

 A. fossidatum; nor is it included in the Munich Catalogue. This 

 fine species is found in the North Coast region of New South 



