BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 133 



Harrold in their Catalogue make L. varians of Germar a synonym 

 of this species, which is certainly a mistake. It is smaller than 

 L. Latreillei, and of a more coppery colour, the mesosternal point 

 is blunt, and the spur on the fore tibiae of the male is spiniform 

 and narrow. 



The habitat is West Australia. 



Lamprima varians. Germar. 



This species seems to have been described by Germar and 

 Burmeister in the same year, by the one in the Linn. Ent. III., 

 p. 895, and by the other in Burmeister's Lamellicornia, Handbuk, 

 Band 5, p. 415 and 417. It is, I think, without doubt, identical 

 with the L. cultridens of Burm., a species which has been for some 

 time, on the authority of Major Parry, placed as a synonym of 

 L. Micardi. The spur on the fore tibiae of the male in L. varians 

 is very much narrower than in most of the species, but much 

 broader than in L. Micardi, and in this respect it answers to 

 Burmeister's description of L. cultridens, which is " calcare maris 

 antico angusto trigono, sidfalciforvii,'" while of L. Micardi he says 

 "calcare maris antico angustissimo, lacvi." It is the most common 

 species in South Australia and is also found in West Australia. 



Lamprima splendens. Erichs. 



Erichson described this species in 1842, in a note to his paper 

 on the Insects of Tasmania, published in the Archiv. fur Naturg. 

 His description is very poor, and is taken from a female specimen. 

 No locality is given, but I have specimens of what I have no 

 doubt is this insect from the Clarence Biver in New South 

 Wales, and from Rockhampton in Queensland. 



It is, I think, a good species. It is altogether of smaller 

 dimensions than L. Latreillei. The, male seems to be invariably of 

 a very brilliant golden green, with the head of a fiery copper, and 

 the maxillae, palpi, antennae, tarsi and tibial spur, picous. The 

 puncturation of the thorax and elytra resembles that of L 

 Latreillei. The mandables have on the upper sui-face a very large 



