430 Mr. A. M. Lea's Notes on 



LOXOPLEURUS LATERIFLAVUS, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXIV, fig. 89.) 



$ . Head (basal half black with a txreenish gloss), prothorax (the 

 sides paler), legs (tarsi black, apex of tibiae blackish) and metasternum 

 pale flavous-red ; rest of iinder-surface flavous ; scutellum and 

 antenna; black ; elytra bright metallic green with wide flavous 

 margins. 



Head densely and moderately coarsely punctate ; very feebly 

 longitudinally impressed. Antennae about as long as the body, 

 second joint half the length of third, third slightly shorter than fifth. 

 Prothorax more than twice as wide as long ; densely and coarsely 

 punctate ; towards base with traces of a feeble median carina ; 

 oblique impressions rather deep ; margins wide. Sciotellum trian- 

 gular, base entire. Elytra oblong, sides almost perfectly parallel, 

 subhumeral lobes small ; densely and moderately coarsely punctate, 

 punctures somewhat smaller but not at all seriate in arrangement 

 posteriorly. Apex of prosternum rounded and slightly produced 

 in middle. Abdomen with fourth segment just traceable across 

 middle. 



Length 2| mm. 



9 . Diff'ers in having the two apical joints of tarsi infuscate only, 

 with the basal joints and the apex of tibite but little darker than the 

 rest of the legs, and the two basal joints of antennae obscurely 

 reddish below. Antennae thinner and shorter than the body. 

 Abdomen with fourth segment not traceable across middle ; fovea 

 large. 



Length Sj mm. 



Hah. W. Australia : (Macleay Museum) Swan River, 

 Karridale {A. M. Lea). 



A very beautiful species somewhat resembling Cr. 

 tricolor, Fab., and co7isors, Boi., but the wide and continuous 

 pallid elytral margins will readily distinguish it from 

 either, it has also much coarser punctures than either. 

 Tricolor (which is almost its exact size) has unicolorous 

 elytra ; consors (which is considerabl}^ larger but has the 

 elytral margins partly pallid) has the prothorax maculate. 

 In the present species the pallid margins are continuous 

 and of almost equal width throughout, except that at the 

 base and suture they are slightly narrower. 



