440 Mr. A. M. Lea s Notes on, 



A prettily - marked little species. The prothoracic 

 margins and abdomen are paler than the disc of the pro- 

 thorax, and are probably flavous in fresh specimens. In 

 the female the elytra might be described as flavous with 

 an oblong black patch, terminated (except for a narrow 

 sutural extension) at apical fourth, the shoulders black, 

 and a black elongate spot near apex, these evidently being 

 relics of the black stripe separating the two flavous ones 

 of the male. 



LOXOPLEURUS INCONSTANS, n. sp. 



(Plate XXIV, figs. 95, 96, 97.) 



$. Black ; lower half of head, prothorax (a median stripe not 

 continuous to base and the extreme base black), four (or two) elytral 

 spots, base of femora (the front femora entirely) and of tibise red ; 

 margins of subhumeral lobes, intercoxal process, sides and apex of 

 abdomen flavous. 



Head with rather sparse and small punctures. Antennae not 

 much shorter than the body, second joint about half the length of 

 third, third distinctly shorter than fifth. Prothorax with rather 

 large, comparatively sparse and irregularly distributed punctures ; 

 oblique impressions rather deep and continuous across middle ; 

 margins narrow. Scutellnm triangular, base entire. Elytra slightly 

 dilated posteriorly ; subhumeral lobes moderately large ; base with 

 moderately large and fairly dense punctures, apical two-thirds with 

 small punctures in almost regular series. Apex of prosternum 

 widely subtriangular. Fovea rather shallow, slightly encroaching 

 on fourth segment and which is just traceable across middle. 



Length 3^ mm. 



ffab. S. Australia (Macleay Museum). 



A somewhat variable species of which I only know the 

 female. In one specimen there are two rather small red 

 spots on each elytron, the first (on the third and fourth 

 interstices) about one-third from base, the second (on 

 second — fourth interstices) about one-third from apex ; 

 on the other specimen the basal spot is absent, and the 

 apical one is very small and confined to the second inter- 

 stice. The base of the tibiae in both specimens is very 

 obscure and the second — fourth joints of antennae are 

 very obscurely diluted with red. 



There are two other females before me (from Tamworth 

 and Hunter River in N. S. Wales) which with doubt I 

 refer to this species; they differ in having the under-surface 



