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smooth and nitid. The antennae are proportionally shorter than 

 in the last described species, and the elytra are more ampliated. 

 It most resembles the Lagria tomentosa of Western Australia. 



Length, 6 lines. 



Hab. — Mossman River. 



68. Lagria purpureipennis. 



Like L. albovillosa, but smaller, less roughly punctate, and 

 less thickly villose. The head and thorax are of a dark metallic 

 green, the elytra of a ruddy purple, the under surface of a dark 

 red and smooth. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. — Mulgrave River. 



Family MORDELLID^. 



69. MORDELLA PULVERULENTA. 



Black, sub-opaque, subsericeous. Head clothed with a very 

 short whitish pubescence Thorax margined in front with 

 white pubescence and with several irregular small spots on the 

 middle and hinder parts. Elytra covered with many small 

 white spots, some of them joining so as to form a small fascia near 

 the apex. The pygidium is rather strongly pointed, the abdo- 

 minal segments and sterna are slightly dusted with whitish pube- 

 scence. The anterior legs are piceous. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Hab. — Mossman River. 



70. MORDELLA NOTABILIS. 



More elongate than the preceding, black, opaque, subsericeous. 

 Head whitish-pubescent except on the vertex. Thorax margined 

 with a white pubescence except on the middle of the apex, a little 

 behind the anterior angles a transverse semi-circular line of the 

 same colour, and in the same line near the centre small spots, 



