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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Corr. Mem. 



Part X. 



CAEABID/E. 



Lecanomerus major, sp.no v. 



Nitidus ; piceo-niger vix cseruleo-micans, labro mandibulis (apice 

 excepto) palpis antennis pedibus (his plus minusve inf uscatis) 

 et prothoracis lateribus testaceis ; prothorace parum 

 transverso, vix perspicue punctulato, lateribus postice vix 

 sinuatis basin versus fortiter explanatis, angulis posticis bene 

 determinatis obtusis fere erectis ; elytris leviter striatis, 

 interstitiis planis. 



£ segmento ventrali apicali postice triangulariter emarginato, 

 utrinque puncto setifero instructo, ad latera prof unde sinuato. 



9 latet. [Long. 4, lat. 1 J lines. 



The striation of the elytra is a little stronger than in L. 

 Jlavocinctus, Blackb., and the prothorax is of quite different 

 outline, having the sides subsinuate behind the middle and the 

 posterior angles not at all rounded off. 



N.S. W. ; near Burrawang ; taken by Mr. T. G. Sloane. 



Lecanomerus striatus, sp.nov. 



Nitidus ; ut L. major coloratus ; prothorace leviter transverso, 

 basin versus leviter perspicue punctulato, lateribus postice 

 leviter sinuatis basin versus minus explanatis, angulis posticis 

 rectis.; elytris fortius striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis. 



