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nothing like it from Victoria. The type of S. dispar has no 

 locality-label, and it is just possible that Mr. French may have 

 mistaken the locality. 



It is strange that Pascoe should have described species of his 

 own genus in the same papers as those in which he described both 

 A. congestum and A. repandum, without noticing the very dis- 

 tinctions by which he separates that genus from Adelium. Thus 

 under A. repandum he notes " in the closeness of its prothorax 

 to the elytra, and also in habit, slightly approaching the genus 

 Coripera." Mr. Blackburn may well be excused from not sus- 

 pecting that Pascoe would not recognise his own genus. 



S. major Blackb. — Two specimens in the Macleay Museum bear 

 this name, from Tamworth. I have also one specimen from Cape 

 Hawke district whioh corresponds to these, and to the description 

 (except in colour). The description gives "senea," while in the 

 note following, Mr. Blackburn says "of a bright (almost nitid) 

 brassy colour." The three specimens mentioned above are shiny 

 bronze, but scarcely "brassy," and are certainly darker than S. 

 master si Macl. It is probable that the type was unusually bright. 

 Mr. Blackburn has been misled by Pascoe's description of S. 

 mastersi in supposing that S. major can be differentiated from 

 that species by its crenulate prothorax alone. (See notes on S. 

 mastersi Pasc, infra). 



A strong character in the species I take to be S. major is the 

 remarkably coarse and close puncturation of the pro- and meta- 

 sternum; while the fore femora are covered with smaller punc- 

 tures, and the epipleurae are coarsely but more distantly punctured. 

 From the specimens before me the most apparent distinctions 

 between S. major and S. mastersi are as follows : — 



S. major Blackb. — Colour shining dark coppery bronze (varying 

 to lighter). Prothorax: disc strigose. coarsely punctate, without 

 larger punctures; anterior angles more acute. Sternum densely 

 and coarsely punctate. 



S. mastersi Pasc. — Colour brilliant coppery-bronze. Prothorax: 

 disc finely punctate, with larger scattered punctures; anterior 

 angles less acute. Sternum finely punctate. 



