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Its elytral fasciae are of the same shade of colour as the prothorax. 

 In a second spécimen the fasciae are paler than the prothorax, and 

 the four front femora are very distinctly infuscated. In both the 

 basai fascia is shghtly dilated towards but does not touch the suture, 

 but touches and is slightly continued along the sides, the second 

 fascia is just before the middle, somewhat sinuous and touches 

 the sides but not the suture, the third is almost apical, and 

 touches neither sides nor suture. In some lights the black parts of 

 the elytra appear to bave a feeble steely-bkie gloss. Many of the ely 

 tral punctures when viewed directly from above appear small gra- 

 nules. Dilïers from the description of rufa in being smaller, the 

 médian fascia touching margins, and the hind fascia nearer the apex 

 than in nitens. 



Lemidia kingensis n. sp. (fig. 37). 



Front two thirds of head, prothorax, three elytral fasciae and 

 appendages (hind tarsi infuscate) flavous; elsewhere black. Wits 

 long straggling hairs very sparse on elytra, but thèse in addition 

 with long, sparse, subseriate pubescence. 



Head wide; with small and irregularly distributed punctures; 

 inter-ocular fovese feeble. Protorax feebly transverse, sides rather 

 suddenly inflated in middle; without distinct punctures, but with 

 numbers of shallow impressions. Elytra almost paraUel-sided to 

 nearapex; with dense and somewhat rugose, but clearly defined 

 punctures of médium size, becoming smaller posteriorly and sub- 

 seriate towards suture. — Lenght 4 3/4 mill. 



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



The basai fascia is much as in the preceding species; the second 

 one is widest towards the suture (which it almost touches) and 

 strongly and obliquely narrowed towards the sides (which it does 

 not touch); apical fascia consists of a rather large and almost roun- 

 ded spot on each, not quite touching the apex, sides or suture. The 

 elytra hâve a faint greenish gloss. 



