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NOTES ON SOME AUSTRALIAN TENEBRIONIDAE, 



Text-fig.8. Licinonia aerea. Text-fig.9. L. apasioides. Text-fii^.lO. L. iiieridiana. 



Apasis, and there are few characters which separate these genera, beyond the more 

 developed humeri and the square posterior inter-coxal process of Apa.yif. 

 Type in Coll. Carter. 



LiCINOMA MKRIIJIANA, n . Sp . (Text-fig. 10. I 



Elongate-ovate, nitid black; antennae, tibiae and tarsi red. Head with reel 

 angular frontal depression, coarsely punctate ; antennae sub-moniliform, 3rd joint 

 lialf as long again as 4th, apical three joints successively enlarged, 11th elongate- 

 ovate, twice as long as 10th. Prothorax sub-rhomboidal, narrow, longer than 

 wide, apex nearly straight, with the anterior angles very slightly protruding and 

 sub-acute, sides feebly arcuate and narrowing to base, posterior angles obtuse, 

 base truncate, disc rather strongly and regularly punctate; medial sulcus sharply 

 defined throughout, with a i'ovea on each side of sulcus near middle (in one ex- 

 ample), the narrow raised border separated from disc by a fine sulcus cont.aining 

 a row of punctures Scutelhim small. FAiitra wider tlian prothorax at base, and 

 about twice as long ; subeylindric, shoulders rounded; punctate-striate, tiio intervals 

 flat, impunetate on disc, eonvex at sides and apex, of even width, the 3rd with a 

 seta near apical declivity, and one on the .5th about half-way, abdomen nitid, 

 bind tarsi with 1st joint shorter than claw-joint. Dimensions: 8 X 2i mm. 



H«/). -Aft. Lofty Hangcs, South Australia ( Mr. K . .T. Rnrti.n. A. IT. El.ston; 

 South Australian and British ^tuseums.) 



Many specimens examined, in which T cannot see any sexual distinction. The 

 nearly straight sides of prothorax. the feebly i>rominent anterior angles, the 



