Australian afid Tasmanian Cfoyptocejjkalidcs. 441 



and legs (except that the tarsi are infuscate) entirely pale, 

 the pale elytral margin continuous almost to apex, and the 

 discal spots appearing as interrupted longitudinal vittae ; 

 in the Hunter River specimen the punctures are also 

 larger although of the same kind. 



LOXOPLEURUS VIRGATUS, n. sp. 



(Plate XXIV, fig. 98.) 



$ . Flavous, prothorax darker ; basal half of head, extreme base 

 of prothorax, scuteUum, base suture and sides of elyti'a, meta- 

 sternum and seven terminal joints of antennae black ; basal joint 

 infuscate. 



Head densely and rather coarsely punctate and feebly strigose. 

 Antennae thin, passing hind coxfe for a short distance, second joint 

 rather more than half the length of third, third and iifth subequal. 

 Prothorax about thrice as wide as long ; densely and coarsely punc- 

 tate, punctures smaller (but not sparser) on disc than elsewhere ; 

 oblique impressions fairly deep ; margins narrow. ScuteUum 

 triangular, indistinctly notched. Elytra oblong, subhuraeral lobes 

 rather large ; densely and coarsely punctate, punctures becoming 

 subseriate in arrangement and somewhat smaller posteriorly, with 

 traces of feeble longitudinal elevations. Apex oi prostenium, widely 

 rounded. Fourth abdominal segment traceable across middle only 

 from behind ; fovea rather shallow. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hah. N. S. Wales : Rylestone ( W. W. Froggatt), Forest 

 Reefs {A. M. Lea). 



The elytra might have been described as "black, with 

 two rather wide and irregular flavous vittse continuous to 

 apex but not to base." 



In appearance somewhat resembling the preceding 

 species, but, apart from colour differences, with the head 

 strigose and much more coarsely and densely punctate. 

 It appears also to be close to Lox. pectoralis, Chp., but that 

 species is described as having the prothorax fulvous in 

 middle, elytra with the lateral vitta terminated before the 

 apex and the interstices punctate. 



LoXOPLEURUS FUSCITARSIS, n. sp. 



(Plates XXIV, XXVI, figs. 99, 200.) 



^ . Black, lower half of head, prothorax (extreme base excepted), 

 legs (tarsi and apex of tibiae infuscate) and parts or the whole of 

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