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Rather densely (for the genus) clothed with straggling hairs, denser, 

 but not miich shorter, on elytra than elsewhere. 



Head (for the genus) rather narrow, in places with dense but 

 small and subrugose punctures; inter-ocular foveae conjoined so as 

 to form one feeble subrounded fovea. Prothorax slightly longerthan 

 wide, sides rather suddenly but not largely inflated constrictions not 

 very deep but obtusely connected along middle, surface somewhat 

 uneven and with rather large scattered punctures. Elytra slightly 

 wider than head, parallel-sided; with irregular rows of rugose 

 punctures beconning smaller posteriorly. — Length 6 mill. 



Uah. : N. S. Wales (type in Macleay Muséum); Queensland : 

 Rokhampton. 



In the type the four front legs and part of the hind tibise are 

 ilavous, the hind tarsi being infuscate ; in a second spécimen the 

 middle femora are dark and the front femora dark posteriorly. On 

 each elytron the basai spot in somewhat angular and smaller than 

 the next one, this being more or less rounded and slightly before 

 the middle, the hind spotis also somewhat rounded and about one- 

 fourth from the apex. 



Lemidia cicatricosa, n. sp. 



Reddish-flavous, parts of the elytra paler; prothorax with two 

 longitudinal black stripes, elsewhere with, or without, black or 

 brown markings. Sparsely clothed with straggling hairs and with 

 sparse long whitish pubescence. 



Head wide; with dense, small, subrugose punctures; inter- 

 ocular foveœ very feeble. Prothorax moderately transverse, rides 

 rather strongly rounded in middle, with rather dense but small and 

 rugose punctures, somewhat unevenly distributed. Elytra almost 

 parallel-sided; with very irregular rows of small, rugose punc- 

 tures frequently interrupted by slightly raised spaces. — Length 

 5-6 1/2 mill. 



Hah. : Tasmania (H. H. D. Griffith), Launceston, George Town, 

 West Tamar (Aug. Simson), Mount Wellington, Hobart, Frankford 

 (A. M. Lea); King Island (J. A. Kershaw and Lea); Victoria 

 (G. French); N. S. Wales : Otford (Macleay Muséum). 



The pale elevated portions of the elytra are almost or quite 

 impunclate, and bave a cicatrised appearance. The metasternum is 

 usually black or infuscate, wholly or in part, but occasionally the 

 whole undersurface is pallid ; the abdomen is frequently stained 

 with black, especially towards the siiles. The head may be entirely 

 black (a spot on the vertex excepted) or wholly pale, or the basai 

 half with large spots or blotches, or with spots on the extrême 



