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Head fairly wide, with small scattered piinctures; intcrocular 

 foveœ very small and indistinct. Prothorax slighthy transverse, 

 sides strongly inflated in middle, dise smooth and impunctate, 

 elsewhere with sparse and small but somewhat rugose punctures. 

 Elytra at base not much wider than middle of prothorax, rather 

 strongly widened to beyond the middle; with somewhat irregular 

 rows of not very large but fairly well defined punctures, becoming 

 very small posteriorly, Length 4 mill. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales ; Mount Koscuisko 5,700 - 6,000 feet 

 (R. Helms). 



On the elytra the basai marking is continued in the form of a 

 narrow triangle along (but not on) the suture half way to the 

 fascia; this is almost médian, narrow, oblique, not quite touching 

 suture (where it is widest) or side, the subapical spot is rather small 

 and of irregular form. The four front femora and tibiœ are pale in 

 front and dark behind, but the two colours are not sharply defined. 

 The markings (except for the subapical ones) are somewhat sug- 

 gestive oi simulans, but the elytra themselves are distinctly iiillated 

 posteriorly and hâve much less conspicuous punctures. 



Lemidia atriceps n. sp. (fig. 38). 



Black; a spot between shoulder and scutellum, autennse (basai 

 joint black, apical joints infuscate), tips of abdominal segments, tro- 

 chanters, knees, tibiae (in parts slightly infuscated) and tarsi (claw 

 joint excepted) more or less flavous ; a médian fascia and a subapical 

 spot on each elytron whitish. Very sparsely clothed with long 

 straggling hairs, but on elytra shorter and seriate in arrangement. 



Head fairly wide, rather strongly and irregularly wrinkled, 

 iater-ocular foveœ scarcely defined. Prothorax feebly transverse; 

 sides moderately rounded, comparatively feebly constricted near 

 base and near apex, surface everywhere more or less slightly 

 uneven, Elytra with sides feebly dilated to beyond the middle; 

 with irregular rows of rugose punctures from base to apex,some of 

 the punctures fairly large but very few at ail clearly defined. 

 — Length 5 1/2 mm. 



Hab. : Tasmania : Mount Wellington (A. M. Lea). 



The médian fascia on each elytron is in the form of a narrow 

 triangle, the base of which is close to (but not on) the suture, and 

 the apex of which nearly touches the side; the subapical spot 

 almost touches the apex and is concave internally. In appearance 

 it is close to the preceding species, but the elytral punctures are 

 smaller and more rugose, the basai marking very feeble and not 



