BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 449 



N. Territory of S. Australia ; taken by Dr. Bovill. 



N.B. — A specimen (also female and with identical sexual charac- 

 ters) from the same locality is smaller (long. If lines) and differs 

 in characters which would certainly seem specific, — but I think 

 the identity of sexual characters so important that without knowing 

 the males I shall regard it as a variety. It has scarcely any trace 

 of markings on the prothorax and has that segment and the elytra 

 decidedly more coarsely, and indeed quite differently, sculptured, 

 — the former having evidently closer (though by no means close) 

 puncturation, and the latter being less pointed at the apex, with 

 the stride quite coarsely punctulate and the interstices not quite 

 flat and scarcely punctured at all. 



LAGRIID^. 



Lagria tincta, sp.nov. 



Oblonga, postice minus dilatata ; supra crebre crasse sat 

 jequaliter punctulata ; pilis longis sparsius vestita ; rufa, piceo- 

 umbrata. [Long. 3|, lat. If lines. 



The under surface is red, with the sides of the metasternum 

 and some blotchy marks on the ventral segments (chiefly down 

 the middle) piceous. On the upper surface the sides of the 

 prothorax and the inner half of each elytron are obscurely piceous, 

 the piceous portion of the latter interrupted about its middle by 

 an ill-defined round spot of a brighter red colour than any other 

 part of the elytra. The antennae are not much longer than the 

 head and prothorax together and are very stout, the joints (except 

 the last) red with their apex black : the 3rd joint is distinctly but 

 not much longer than wide, the 4th scarcely so ; joints 5-10 as 

 wide as long, joint 11 about equal to the preceding three together. 

 The femora (except at their extreme base) are nearly black. The 

 long erect hairs (with which the upper surface is rather densely 

 clothed) are partly pallid and partly dark, rather confusedly 

 mingled together. The punctures on the underside are lightly 

 impressed and neither close nor large. The prothorax is nearly 

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