BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 563 



side or suture: median red fascia dilated at sides and suture. 

 Meso- and metasternum black; abdomen j-ellow with sooty spots 

 at sides, base of anterior femora testaceous. Eatlier sparsely 

 clothed with suberect pubescence. 



Head densely and rather coarsely punctate ; clypeal suture 

 feeble. Basal joint of antennte large, swollen at apex; 2nd large, 

 irregularly quadrate, convex below, concave above, inner margin 

 with two small teeth or nodes, the basal one sharp, apical one 

 obtuse. Protliorax slightly longer than wide, apex rounded, con- 

 siderably wider than base; a transverse depression near base. 

 Scutellum small, transverse, punctate. Elytra not much longer 

 than head and prothorax combined, dilated from near base, sides 

 and suture rather strongly raised and thickened, a feeble 

 impression between shoulder and scutellum ; moderately and 

 equally punctate throughout. Length 2^, width 1^ mm. 



/7«6.— Gosford, KS.W. 



This is the only species I have seen belonging to the 1st section. 

 It appears to resemble L. guttidatus (apparently described from 

 female specimens), but differs in the median elytral fascia being 

 continuous and similar in colour to the apex, with which it is con- 

 nected along suture, and apparently in several other particulars. 



Prothorax distincthj transverse* 



Prothorax red, immaculate. 



Laius cyanocephalus, n.sp. 



(J. Head blue; antennie blackish, basal joint with a liluish 

 gloss, 2nd testaceous at base; prothorax red; elytra with a rather 

 broad yellow median fascia dilated at sides and suture, apex with 

 a yellow patch shaped as an equilateral triangle; basal marking- 

 large, green, becoming violet at apex; apical patch violet-blue. 

 Sterna and tibise green, abdomen and femora blue. Clothed with 

 moderately long brownish hair, shorter and sparser on apex of 

 elytra than on base, the prothorax, and head. 



* M. Fairmaire's 2nd section. 



