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Prothorax longer than wide, truncate at apex and base, widest in front of 

 middle, sides lightly rounded, scarcely sinuate behind, anterior angles blunt, pos- 

 terior widely obtuse; disc rather sparsely and coarsely punctate with a few 

 foveae; medial line shallow, more or less clearly impressed but not continuous 

 to front margin and terminating near base in a shallow transverse impression. 



Elytra wider than prothorax at base, subparallel for the greater part, 

 shoulders distinct though rounded; striate punctate, the striae deeply impressed, 

 seriate punctures round and uniform, intervals with a single line of almost 

 microscopic punctures, the 3rd and 5th each with two large setae; epipleurae 

 coarsely, abilomen finely punctate. Posterior tarsi with 1st joint shorter than 

 claw joint, himensiuns : 9-10 x 3 mm. 



Ilab. — Victoria: Mount Macedon (C. Deane and J. E. Dixon) and Gisborne 

 (J. E. Dixon), Gippsland (J. E. Dixon), Jamieson (H. J. Carter). 



Seven examples under examination. Since publishing my revision of the 

 genus (These Proc, xlv., 1920, p. 237) I could not resist a lingering doubt that 

 the above species might be L. nitida Pasc. on account of its habitat, so sent a 

 specimen to Mr. Blair for careful comparison with Pascoe's type. Mr. Blair, 

 however, corroborates his former opinion and writes "Your Licinoma from Mt. 

 Macedon .... is certainly different from Pascoe's Mt. Macedon species. Cf. 

 shape of thorax, particularly posterior angles." I can only conclude, therefore, 

 that either Pascoe's locality is wrong, or — what is much more likely — that the 

 ranges of the two species overlap. I have L. nitida (= victoriae Blkb.) from 

 Dandenong Ranges, Mt. Buffalo, Wandin, Olinda Creek, and Gippsland in Vic- 

 toria and from Mt. Kosciusko and Eden in N.S. Wales. 



L. sub-canaliculata is clearly separated from L. nitida by (1) darker colour 

 of surface and antennae, (2) longer and more coarsely punctate pronotum, the 

 latter also longer and channelled, (3) elytra more deeply striate, its intervals 

 more finely punctate. Pascoe's words "antennae ferruginous, the last joint 

 large and as long as the two preceding together" are entirely inapplicable to my 

 species. 



From L. meridiana Cart. — to which it is more closely allied — it differs in the 

 tnineate apex and more rounded sides of prothorax, with its disc more sparsely 

 punctate; elytral striae less deep, seriate punctures more widely separate (in L. 

 meridiana they are very close, while the interstices appear quite smooth). Types 

 in Coll. Carter. 



Brycopia capillata, n. sp. 



Ovate, dark bronze, nitid, apical joints of antennae red, whole upper sur- 

 face clothed with long upright hairs. 



Head coareely and closely pimctate, antennae moniliform, apical joint con- 

 siderably larger than the rest. 



Prothorax subcordate, truncate at base and apex and about equally wide at 

 each, widest before the middle, anterior angles obtuse, sides crenulated, rather 

 widely rounded on anterior half thence, at first obliquely, later sinuately nar- 

 rowed before the small subrectangular posterior angle — this forming a small 

 tooth more or less outwardly directed; disc convex, coarsely, not very closely, 

 punctate (more densely so towards the sides) and slightly rugose, without foveae 

 or medial line; sides without clear foliation, extreme margins finely erenulate. 



Seutelliim large, scutiform, with a few large punctures. 



Elytra slightly wider than prothorax at base, shoulders rather squarely 

 rounded; striate-punctate, the seriate punctures close, round and regular— of the 



