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episterna short, transverse. Pieeous black ; lateral channel and inflexed miirgin 

 of elytra testaceous; legs pieeous; four anterior coxae, posterior trochai-ters, 

 apex and base of femora, and tarsi lurid-testaceous; antennae infuscate. 



Head small (12 mm. across eyes); labrum emarginate, with four submar- 

 ginal setae. Prothorax broader than long (1.6 ^ 2 mm.), widest at anterior 

 third, depressed, flat on each side of base; lateral basal inqiressions narrow, dis- 

 tant from lateral margin ; sides rounded, strongly roundly narrowed to apex, nar- 

 rowed in a gentle curve to base; apex feebly emarginate in middle; angles 

 rounded off; border narrow, hardly more strongly retlexed at basal angles than 

 on middle of sides, entire along anterior margin, obsolete only on middle of 

 base. Elytra ovate (4.6 ^ 3.1 mm.); apical curve short, oblique, not pereeiitibly 

 bisinuate; inner striae more or less interruj)ted near lia-se; disc with a row of four 

 equally spaced foveiform punctures on third interstice. Penultimate joint of 

 maxillary paljji proportionately shorter, and terminal joints of both maxillary 

 and labial palpi stouter than in L. cursor Erichs. Length, 7.5, breadth, 3.1 mm. 



Hab. — Zeehan (Simson, type), Waratah, Strahan (Carter and Lea). 



A distinct species, which differs decidedly from the other two species o: the 

 genus by the four large discal punctures of the third interstice of the elytra. As 

 in L. simsoni Bates, the posterior marginal seta of the prothorax rises from a 

 pore on the edge of the border a little before the basal angle; in L. cursor the 

 post-marginal seta and its pore are obsolete. The prothorax is flatter and sh(.rtcr 

 than in L. cursor, therefore more resembling that of L. simsoni. 



Genus L a c o r d a i r i a, 



Lacordairia CALAThoides Castelnau. 



Oval, de])ressed Head small (1 mm. across eyes); antennae with three 

 basal joints glabrous; labrum deeply triangularly excised, 4-setose; clypeus emar 

 ginate. Prothorax depressed, transverse (1.5 x 2.2 mm.), evidently wider across 

 base than apex ; derm finely shagreened ; sides lightly rounded ■ apex lightlv 

 emarginate; angles obtuse; base truncate, curving lightly forward on each side, 

 angles obtuse; basal area flat on each side; lateral basal impressions short, dis- 

 tinct; border entire, narrow on sides, bearing at basal angle a setigerous jiore. 

 Elytra ovate (4.2 X 2.9 mm.), depressed on disc, lightly declivous to basal border 

 on each side of base, rather strongly declivous to apex, finely striate; interstices 

 flat, third impunctate, eighth very wide; apical curve short, even. Black, nitid; 

 antennae, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous. Leng-th, 7, breadth, 2.0. 



Hab.— St. Marys (Simson, N,,. 3643). Unique. 



I feel confident in identifying this species as L. caJathnides Cast., and offer 

 the above description to record some characters of importance not noticed by 

 Castelnau. It diffei-s from the Victorian species L. argutoroides Cast, (which also 

 has the third interstice of the elytra impunctate) by femora pieeous; form wider; 

 prothorax broader with sides more evenly rounded ; elytra much wider, more finely 

 striate, eighth interstice wider, etc. 



Genus D i c r o c ii i l e. 



Table of Tasmanian species. 



1 (2) Prothorax with a deep concavity on each side, base bordered externally 

 by the strongly upturned margin, basal angles marked; third inter- 

 stice of elytra 3-punctate. Length, 15.5 mm. .. quadricollis Cast. 



