134 REVISION OF THE GENUS LAMPRIMA OF LATREILLE, 



indentation, and terminate in three teeth, the extreme two small 

 and close together ; a deep notch and tooth on the inner surface 

 above the middle. The presternum terminates in a short pointed 

 triangle between the fore legs, and does not show a long narrow 

 keel like L. Latreillei ; the triangular space on the breast on each 

 side is small, sunken, and strongly punctate. The mesosternal 

 point is rectangular and clothed in front with yellowish pile. The 

 whole under surface is densely punctate and sparingly pilose. The 

 anterior tibse are armed externally with five teeth, the uppermost 

 reaching the middle ; the spur on the inner apex is broadly 

 securiform, the middle and hind tibiae are slender and unarmed. 

 The female is generally of a coppery hue, very brilliant, but 

 densely punctured all over ; the tibiae are all strongly armed. 

 Major Parry makes it a synonym of L. aurata, but if I am right 

 in the recognition of the species it is manifestly distinct. 



Lamprima rutilans. Erichs. 



Archiv. fur Naturg, 1842, I., p. 170. 



Erichson described this species in his Tasmanian Insects (loc. 

 cit), but it is also a common species in Victoria, and in some parts 

 of New South Wales. It is generally of a tarnished golden hue, 

 is more puncate than L. Latreillei, with mandibles more broadly 

 truncate and recurved at the apex, and the mesosternal point 

 sharply rectangular. Major Parry thinks this is also the same as 

 L. aurata. I believe it to be a good species. 



Lamprima Kreftii. Macleay. 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, Vol. IV., p. 173. 



I described this species in 1871, in my paper on "The Insects 

 of Gayndah " (loc. cit.) The only specimen known — a male — is 

 in the Australian Museum. In addition to the distinctive 

 characters mentioned by me in the original description, T would 

 add the following — the mesosternal point acutangular as in L. 

 Latreillei, and the teeth on the outer side of the fore tibiae small 

 and irregular above and on the middle. 



