504 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



In Dr. Candeze's tabulation of Lacon [Mem. Liege (2) IV.] this 

 species would fall I think beside L. sculptus, a much larger and 

 very different species. If it were placed among the species 

 having the elytra at least twice as long as the prothorax, it would 

 fall beside L. variabilis, Cand., also much larger and in other 

 respects very different. 



Victoria ; near Bright, under bark of Eucalyptus. 



Lacon murrayensis, sp.nov. 



Modice elongatus ; parum nitidus : setis brevibus fulvis sparsim 

 vestitus ; rufo-brunneus, nigro-marmoratus j capite prothor- 

 aceque sat crasse sat crebre punctulatis ; illo antice planato- 

 convexo ; hoc quam longiori paullo latiori subdepresso, 

 obscure canaliculato, postice quam antice fere duplo latiori, 

 lateribus subcrenulatis, a basi ultra medium fere rectis, angulis 

 posticis rectis (exemplis nonnullis apice summo minute 

 truncato) intra marginem subtuberculatis ; elytris quam 

 prothorax vix latioribus vix duplo longioribus, subdepressis 

 minus distincte punctulato striatis, puncturis quadratis, 

 interstitiis sat sequalibus sat angustis (exemplis nonnullis 

 leviter subcarinatis), angulis anticis rectis; tarsorum anticorum 

 sulcis bene determinatis intermediorum fere obsoletis. 



[Long. 4-4-i, lat. li-lf lines. 

 In colour and markings resembling L. variolas, Cand., beside 

 which it would fall in the tabulation (referred to above) but differ- 

 ing inter alia in its sharply denned anterior tarsal sulci. In 

 general form and sculpture much resembling L. variabilis, Cand., 

 but with shorter elytra, equal elytral interstices, different tarsal 

 sulci, &c. The distinct though ill-detined sulci for the interme- 

 diate tarsi will distinguish it from most of its congeners. 

 S. Australia ; near Murray Bridge. 



Lacon lindensis, sp.nov. 



Minus latus ; subparallelus ; sat nitidus ; setis brevibus pallidis 

 minus crebre vestitus; niger, prothoracis lateribus (pra3sertim 

 ad angulos) antennis pedibusque rufescentibus ; corpore sub- 



