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not serrated. Prothorax moderately transverse, much wider 

 at apex than base, a wide and rather deep depression near 

 base; punctures dense on parts of sides, sparse elsewhere. 

 Elytra almost parallel-sided to near apex, sides and suture 

 tbickened; vvith dense but sharply defined punctures, except 

 on parts of the basal spöts, and on most of the apical spöts. 

 Front fernora deeply notcbed in middle of front; second joint 

 of front tarsi lopsided, and with a black outer comb. Length 

 (c??), 2,6-3 mm. 



5 Differs in having the head smaller, more convex and 

 with less prominent eyes, antennae with first joint thinner, 

 the apparent second much smaller, simple, and about as 

 long as the two following combined, front femora and second 

 joint of front tarsi simple. 



Ha b. — North-Western Australia: Kimberley district 

 (Dr. E. Mjöbekg). Type, and many other specimens, in 

 Stockholm Museum. 



Of the elytral spöts two are basal and are prevented 

 from contact only by the thickened suture, the others are 

 longer, oval, and touch or almost touch the apex, but not 

 the suture, they are usually more purplish than the basal 

 ones. On some specimens the hind legs are almost entirely 

 dark, on others they are entirely påle; on many of them 

 there is a dark spöt adjacent to each eye. Of the minute 

 species, having påle prothorax and four-spotted elytra, the 

 basal joints of antennae are alone sufficient to distinguish 

 from L. purpiirPiceps and L. acervatus, which have also apical 

 spöts of different shape and with conspicuous punctures on 

 them; L. eyrensis, L. egemns, L. carns, and L. sinus are 

 smaller, and with the head dark, L. stenotarsus has dark 

 and wider prothorax, L. concaviceps has very different head, 

 and elytral spöts longitudinally conjoined, and L. pallidus 

 is smaller, wider, and with different elytral punctures. 



Laius bellulus Guer. — Perth. 



Laius carus Lea. — Kimberley, Noonkanbah. 



Hypattalus mirabilis Lea. — Evelyne. 



Carphurus insigniceps sp. nov. — Fig. 7. 



J* Flavous; six apical joints of antennae, a large blotclr 



on elytra, metasternum, middle and hind coxae, and femora 



