Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. 155 



Downs in Queensland) I have not been able to identify, 

 and do not believe that it can be satisfactorily identified 

 from the brief original description. 



Laius trisignatus, Germ., Linn. Ent., Ill, p. 182 ; Fairm., 

 Journ. Mus. Godefifr., 1879, xiv, p. 104. {Figs. 125, 

 126, 127.) 



In the male the end joint of antennae is concave above 

 and convex below as in many other species of Laius. I 

 have seen no specimens having the sutural marking 

 obsolete, but in the Macleay Museum there is a male 

 having this marking obscurely connected with the lateral 

 ones, and there is a specimen from the Swan River in 

 which the lateral markings are just traceable ; a female 

 from Port Denison is above the normal size, with the 

 elytra more coarsely punctate and the pallid markings 

 covering a greater area than usual. 



Hob. Queensland : Port Denison, Cairns ; S. Austra- 

 lia : Adelaide ; W. Australia : Swan River. 



Laius bellulus, Guer.,Voy. Coq., p. 78 ; Boisd., Voy. Astr., 

 II, p. 135; Germ., Linn. Ent., Ill, 1848, p. 182; 

 Macl., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. Wales, II, p. 65 ; Fairm., ' 

 Journ. Mus. Godeffr., 1879, XIV, p. 103. {Fig. 128.) 



The insect redescribed by Germar as this species is 

 common on sea-beaches, and has the dark subapical mark- 

 ings of the elytra with coarse punctures in front and close 

 to the suture, but elsewhere these markings are impunctate 

 or almost so. 



The specimen identified as helhdus by Macleay from 

 Gayndah is a female and has the dark subapical markings 

 coarsely punctured throughout; it certainly belongs to a 

 different species to the common S. Australian one. 



Hah. S. Australia ; W. Australia ; N. S. Wales. 



Laius cinctus, Redt. {Apalochrus), Reis, Novara, II, p. 

 106 ; Fairm., Journ. Mus. Godeffr., XIV, 1879, p. 108. 



masfersi, Macl., Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. Wales, II, p. 265. 



femomlis, Blackb., P. L. S., N.S.W., 1891, p. 531 ; Lea, 



I. c, 1898, p. 572. {Figs. 51, 65, 113, 114, 129, 130.) 



I have examined the types of mastersi, they are male 



and female. The male has excavated anterior femora. 



