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Head somewhat flattened in parts, and with minute punctures. 

 Antennae with two basal joints large and distorted. Profhornz 

 Btrongly transverse, sides somewhat angularly inflated to apical 

 third; punctures shallow and indistinct. Elytra with very dense 

 punctures, smaller and sparser on humeral markings than elsewhere. 

 Front tarsi with basal joint short, second longer, closely applied 

 to it and strongly curved at apex, claw joint unusually large; front 

 femora with a tubercular swelling on middle nf upper surface. 

 Length. 6 to 6^ mm. 



$ Differs from the male in having the two V>asal joints of an- 

 tennae simple, the second joint of the front tarsi distinct from the 

 second, and the femora simple. 



Hab. — Queensland : Cairns (Henry Hacker). 



A large species, allied to tarsalis and major; from both of wliielf 

 it is readily distinguished by the subapical markings of elytra, and 

 different basal joints of antennae of male. From verticalis (Mac- 

 leay, not Fairmaire), of which, so far, only the female is known; 

 it differs in being flatter, and in the shapes of the elytral mark- 

 ings. 



The mark on each shoulder covers the whole of the extreme base, 

 is then directed backwards close to the suture to about the apical 

 fourth, and then is directed somewhat obliquely to the side; the 

 subapical mark is strongly curved, and touches the side, but not 

 the suture; on the left elytron it is somewhat C-shaped, and on 

 the right reversed — 3. The basal joint of the antennae is feebly 

 curved on its inner side, and strongly curved on its outer, with 

 the apex almost as wide as the length. The second joint is shorter 

 than the first, but considerably wider, convex on its lower, and 

 irregularly concave on its upper surface; near its anterior outer 

 edge there is a distinct fovea, and posteriorly it is excavated, with 

 two processes above the excavation, one narrow and oblique, 

 the other conical and upright, the two touching at their tips. 

 But the second joint appears of different shape from almost every 

 direction it is viewed from. The tuljercle on the front femora of 

 the male is concealed by the overlapping sides of prothorax. 



Laius minutus, n.sp. (Plate XXII., Fig. 11.) 



(7 Black, in parts with a faint purplish gloss; prothorax 

 somewhat flavous, the apical half, except at sides, stained with 

 brown; elytra with a conspicuous, narrow, raised, median, white 

 fascia not toucliing suture or sides, but sides at mediuni third 



