350 



Sparsely clothed with straggling hairs, rather shorter on upper 

 surface than usual; elytra with sparse pubescence as well. 



Head comparatively narrow, with a few sinall punctures at sides 

 and base; inter-ocular fovese very feeble. Prothorax longer than 

 wide, sides widely and regularly rounded in middle, and ahnost the 

 exact width of head, constrictions deep on sides, but scarcely 

 traceable across upper surface, in places slightly wrinkled and 

 with a few punctures, but middle of dise more or less smooth. 

 Etytra parallel-sided to near apex, punctures small and irregular. 

 — Length 3 1/4-4 mill. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales : Sydney (E. W. Ferguson), Forest Reefs; 

 Tasmania : Ulverstone, Mole Creek, Mount Wellington, Hobart 

 (A. M. Lea). 



The elytra are coloured somewhat as in the preceding species, 

 but the dark suturai marking is narrower, with hardly a trace of 

 green, and not abruptly commenced; next to the suture the derm 

 is nsually reddish, but wilhout the striped appearance of that 

 species, and the under surface of the head is entirely pale. The 

 elytral punctures are fairly distinct although not sharply defmed 

 close to the suture, but elsewhere they are very indistinct, and 

 tliey are ail more or less rugose, from some directions on the basai 

 half they appear to be in very feeble striœ. 



Var. a. — Prothorax with a broad infuscate médian longitudinal 

 stripe. 



Liemidia virgata n. sp. (fig. 56-57). 



Black, in parts with a greenish or coppery gloss; head (except 

 middle of base of both surfaces), tips of prothorax, a wide stripe on 

 each elytron, and appendages (parts of femora excepted or not) 11a- 

 vous or reddish-flavous. Clothing much as in Siniso7ii. 



Sculpture much like that of Simsoni, but prothorax with a dis- 

 tinct médian Une, and surface of elytra more irregular. — Length 

 6-7 mill. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales (Macleay Muséum) ForesL Reefs; Victoria 

 Somerville (A. M. Lea), Western District (C. French); King Island 

 (Lea); Tasmania : Launceston (A. Simson). 



The hind femora are sometimes entirely deep black, and the 

 others slriped with black; and parts of the tarsi and tips of the hind 

 tibise are usually black or infuscate. Sometimes the hind femora are 

 dark only in the middle, and the others feebly striped, and some- 

 times the legs are entirely pale. The pale stripe on each elytron 

 extends across the etitire base and apex, but for the greater portion 

 of its length is enclosed between black stripes ; the dark suturai 



