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643. LYB.EBA TRIFASGIATA n. sp. 



Colour of derm as in preceding species. Densely clothed with 

 flavoiis scales having, in some lights, a faint golden lustra. Pro- 

 thorax with a large median spot or blotch of bright red scales and 

 with a smaller, but still fairly large, spot of similar scales on each 

 side. Elytra with three large but irregular fasciae of red scales. 

 Under surface and legs with flavous or stramineous scales, but on 

 the abdomen sometimes stained with red; red scales sometimes 

 forming a spot on femora, and often fairly tliick on tibiae. With 

 numerous stout but more or less decumbent setae. 



Rostrum about the length of prothorax, moderately curved, almost 

 parallel-sided to insertion of antennas, thence strongly diminishing 

 in width to apex, especially in female; in front of antennae shining 

 and with fairly large punctures in male, much smaller in female; 

 behind antennae apparently with three or five more or less concealed 

 carinae. First joint of funicle decidedly stouter, but not much longer 

 than second. Prothorax as in preceding species. Elytra oi the same 

 shape but the interstices wider and less convex, with the striae 

 narrower and their punctures much smaller. Abdomen with dense 

 regular punctures, second segment shorter than third and fourth 

 combined. Femora edentate. Length 3-3 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Victoria : Birchip (J. C. Goudie); S. Australia : Flinders 

 Peninsula (T. Blackburn). 



On the head and base of rostrum the red scales sometimes pre- 

 dominate, but they are often confined to a large spot on the forehead. 

 The large median spot on the jirothorax is frequently partially (or 

 quite) divided into two parts of unequal size (the larger one being 

 basal) by a thin line of pale scales; whilst occasionally it is almost 

 conjoined with the spot on each side. The elytral fasciae are more 

 or less interrupted at the suture; the largest one is about one- fourth 

 from the base, the next largest one is median, the smallest one 

 (which is often very irregular) being between the median one and 

 the apex. The setae are usually of the same colour as the scales 

 amongst which they are placed, but sometimes are of the reverse 

 colour, when they become very conspicuous. 



In general appearance somewhat close to the preceding species, 

 but the markings of very different pattern, and the femora edentate. 

 In the table previously given by me it should be placed with concinna 

 and ina^qualis, from which its very different markings will readily 

 distinguish it. 



A female from Flinders Peninsula differs from the typical form in 

 having the reddish scales more of a dingy yellowish-brown, with 



