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base only. The elytra are sometimes entirely pale (with very pale 

 cicatrised spots and blotches), or with black or infuscate blotches. 

 Cicatrised whitish spots are always présent, although very variable 

 in size, shape and disposition, and they are usually somewhat lon- 

 gitudinal ; the dark parts may be feeble stains only or clearly defi- 

 ned black or brown short stripes, made more conspicuous by the 

 paler-cicatriced parts amougst which they are placed. The black 

 stripes on the prothorax are présent in ail the spécimens (37) 

 before me, but vary considerably in width, although they do not 

 appear to be ever entirely conjoined. The legs are usually entirely 

 pale, but the hind femora are sometimes deeply stained with black, 

 and the other femora are sometimes slightly stained. Spécimens 

 from King Island are usually paler than those from Tasmania or the 

 mainland, The species is readily distinguished from ail others 

 known to me, except fcéimea^ra, by the black prothoracic stripes; 

 except for thèse, bowever, it has scarcely anything in common 

 with that species. 



Lemidia nigrovaria n. sp. (fig. 42-43). 



Head (front portion flavous) prothorax and scutellum coppery or 

 with a greenish gloss ; undersurface black with a coppery gloss; 

 elytra black in parts; elsewhere more or less flavous. Glothing 

 much as in the preceding species, except that the hairs are sparser 

 and pubescence of head and prothorax rather longer. 



jFiead wide, with dense, small, more or less rugose punctures; 

 inter-ocular foveee very feeble. Prof/iorax apparently slightly longer 

 than wide, sides rather suddenly but not largely rounded; constric- 

 tions rather more distant from base and apex than usual; surface 

 densely but feebly wrinkled. Elytra almost parallel-sided; with 

 fairly dense, clearly defmed punctures, of small to médium size, 

 in places appearing in feeble rows. — Length 5-5 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : King Island (A. M. Lea). 



The elytra from some directions appear to be covered with small 

 and almost regular pustules, thèse being due to slight thickenings 

 of the derm ; from other directions they appear as cicatrised spots. 

 The black markings (which usually hâve a bronzy gloss) are 

 variable in extent, they sometimes appear as linear spots, of which 

 there are two on each elytron just beyond the middle, two before 

 the middle, one on the shoulder and sometimes one on the side 

 near the base. Sometimes the postmedian spots are joined together, 

 butnotacross the suture, and joined to a dark latéral stripe which 

 extends to the shoulder, and this stripe may, or may not, be con- 

 nected with the antemedian spots. The basai third of the elytra 



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