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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Heteromastix nigripes Lea. 
Four specimens from Victoria (Lower Tarwin) in the National Museum 
probably belong to this species, but are slightly larger than Tasmanian specimens, 
the antennse are somewhat thicker, and the two basal joints are paler. 
Heteromastix simplex Lea. 
A specimen of this species from Mapleton, in the Queensland Museum, differs 
from the type in having the front and middle femora and tibiae entirely pale. 
Heteromastix mcdonaldi Lea. 
Two specimens from the Upper Williams River (New South Wales) probably 
represent another variety of this species. They differ from the typical form in being 
slightly narrower, in having the ninth joint of antennae smaller and more lop-sided, 
the eleventh joint decidedly longer and thinner, more of the legs black, and basal 
joints of antennae pale. 
Telephorus nobilitatus Er. 
I previously 3 commented upon a variety of this species represented by two 
specimens from South Australia in the Macleay Museum, 'there are now numerous 
specimens of the same variety before me, from South Australia (Reevesby Island, 
Adelaide, Mindarie, and Karoonda) ; other specimens differ in having the apical patch 
of the prothorax divided in the middle by a pale line, and this gradually increases 
until there is only a small black spot on each side. 
Luciola scutellaris n. sp. 
<J. Black, prothorax (including lower surface), four front coxae, and base 
of femora, and less of hind legs reddish flavous. With fine pubescence. 
Head widely concave in middle and with rather dense punctures. Prothorax 
about twice as wide as long ; with rather coarse, crowded punctures, and a distinct 
median line. Elytra with dense punctures ; with two feeble ridges on each, and 
remnants of still more feeble ones. Abdomen with fourth segment and part of the 
fifth white. Length, 4 -5-5-0 mm. 
$. Differs in having the head smaller, convex between eyes, and these smaller 
and only fourth segment of abdomen white. 
North Australia : Groote Eylandt and Connection Island (N. B. Tindale). 
Type, in South Australian Museum ; cotype, in Queensland Museum. 
Consistently smaller than L. humilis , and scutellum blackish, but possibly 
it should be regarded as a variety only of that species. On the male the fourth 
segment of the abdomen is entirely white, on the fifth the white part does not extend 
to the sides, but is produced in the middle almost to the apex, much as on the males 
of humilis, all the many specimens of which before me have the scutellum no darker 
than the prothorax. 
A specimen from Queensland (Stewart River, H. M. Hale and N. B. Tin dale) 
probably belongs to the species, but has the legs entirely dark. 
3 Lea, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loncl., 1909, p. 117. 
