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Lemidia Simsoni n. sp. (fig. 58). 



Flavous, heacl paler in front than behind; scutellum, a widely 

 triangiilar spot on lower surface of head, sterna and middle of 

 abdomen black, parts of tarsi infuscate. Elytra with suture (except 

 at base and apex), brassy green, then reddish (pro thorax of similar 

 colour) then flavous, then narrowly red again, with part of extrême 

 margin black Prothorax with (or without) two subapical biackish 

 spots. With sparse straggling hairs and (more noticeably on elytra 

 than elsewhere) with sparse pubescence. 



Head comparatively narrow, obscurely wrinkled in places and 

 with a few punctures; inter-ocular foveae distinct, of moderately 

 large size and with slightly wrinkled sides. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, sides rather widely and moderately rounded, 

 distinctly and irregularly wrinkled, and with scattered punctures. 

 Elytra long, parallel-sided to near apex; with small irregular 

 punctures, — Length 5 1/4-7 1/4 mill. 



Hah. : Tasmania : Launceston (Aug. Simson and H. H. D. Grif- 

 fith), Goulds Country, Mole Greek, Beaconsfield (Aug. Simson), 

 Hobart(A. M. Lea); King Island (J. A. Kershaw). 



The striped appearance of the elytra is much more conspicuous 

 on some spécimens than on others, but the suturai marking is 

 always very distinct, it commences abruptly just behind the 

 scutellum (its base being oblique on each side) and terminâtes 

 narrowly at about one fifth from the apex, next to it the derm is of 

 a rather bright red, with the margins (but towards the base not the 

 extrême margins) of a similar colour, the space between being 

 flavous, but sometimes the red and flavous parts are not sharply 

 limited. The two spots on the prothorax, when présent, appear 

 sometimes as stains, and sometimes of the same colour as the dark 

 part of the suture. The front femora are sometimes stained behind 

 and the four hind femora sometimes in front. The whole surface of 

 the elytra appears to be slightly rugose, owing to the punctures, 

 thèse though never large or clearly defined, appear in places to be 

 in feeble rows; towards the sides they are denser than elsewhere 

 and some of the small ones both there and on the shoulders are less 

 Vugose than the others. 



Lemidia subsuturalis n. sp. 



Reddish flaVous, appendages flavous but parts of tai-si infuscate; 

 scutellum, suture (except at tip), sterna and abdomen black. 



