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half, meso and metasternum infuscate in middle. With sparse 

 straggling hairs, on the elytra shorter and denser than elsewhere, 

 and seriale in arrangement. 



Head comparatively large and wide; with sparse, scattered 

 minute piinclures; inter-ocular foveee small but fairly distinct. 

 Prothorax longer than wide, sides rather strongly and not very 

 widely dilated in middle; almost impunctate. Elytra rather short 

 and wide, slighLly dilated to beyond the middle, punctures irregular. 

 — Length 4 mill. 



Hab. : N. S. Wales : Wollongong (A. M. Lea). 



The elytral punctures are nowhere of even moderate size, and 

 are distinct only on the basai half of the sides; elsewhere they are 

 small or absent, but on the dise they appear to form almost regular 

 rows, with a hairarising from each puncture. 



Lemidia Hackeri n. sp. 



Flavous; scutellum, elytra, metasternum, abdomen and hind 

 tibiae and tarsi black. With sparse long hairs, on the elytra shorter 

 and denser than elsewhere. 



jïead wide, with small irregularly distributed punctures; inter- 

 ocular fovese small but usually distinct. Prothorax slightly trans- 

 verse, sides strongly and regularly rounded in middle, with sparse 

 and irregularly distributed punctures. Elytra distinctly wider than 

 head, parallel-sided to near apex; with dense, clearly defined punc- 

 tures of moderate size, becoming smaller posteriorly and seriate 

 towards suture.— Lenght 3 1/2-4 1/2 mill. 



Hab. : Queensland : Coen River (II. Hacker). 



In gênerai appearance and with sculpture like pictipes, but head 

 entirely pale in the eight spécimens before me; in six of thèse the 

 legs are as described, but in a seventh, the hind femora, except at 

 the base, are also dark, whilst in the eighth the four hind legs 

 (except the base of the femora) are dark. 



Lemidia flavipes n. sp. (hg. 39). 



Head (front half paler) and prothorax (tips paler) reddish-flavous; 

 under surface (except of head), scutellum and elytra (extrême base 

 atmostwhite, apical Ufth flavous) black, appendages (parts of tarsi 

 infuscate) flavous. With sparse straggling hairs; elytra in addition 

 with sparse pubescence. 



Head comparatively narrow and convex; with small and irregu- 

 larly distributed but distinct punctures; inter-ocular fovese very 



