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L. murrayensis, sp. nov. Mas. Sat angustus j modice elongatus ; 

 nitidus; parum pubescens ; testaceus ; capite quam pro- 

 thorax hand angustiori, subtiliter minus crebre punctulato, 

 sat convexo, utrinque longitudinaliter impresso, sulco me- 

 diano nullo, clypeo antice subtruncato ; antennis gracilibus, 

 quam corpus baud multo brevioribus, articuiis apicalibus 

 quam latioribus multo longioribus; prothorace parum trans- 

 verso, postice leviter angustato, supra subtilius subsparsim 

 punctulato, utrinque subtiliter unistriato, disco planato per- 

 nitido tuberculo parvo vix pone medium instructo, lateribus 

 leviter arcuatis, angulis anticis (superne visis) baud bene 

 definitis posticis sat acute rectis ; elytris (certo adspectu) 

 striis dorsalibus 3 (ut L. ferruginei, Steph.) impressis, 

 latera versus tenuiter carinatis, interstitiis perspicue punc- 

 tulatis. 

 Feminse capite angustiori, antennis quam caput prothoraxque 

 conjuncta parum longioribus, articuiis 9" 10" que quam 

 latioribus vix longioribus ; forma magis elongata, magis 

 parallela. Long., | 1.; lat., -^-^ 1. (fere). 



The form and proportions of this species (especially the female) 

 are well represented by M. Grouvelle's figure of L. bistriatus 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr., 1877, Pi. ii., tig. 8), but I cannot find any 

 trace of duplication in the striae of the pronotum, and the punc- 

 tures of the head and pronotum are very much closer than they 

 are represented in that figure. It belongs to the group of 

 Lcemophloei having a single stria on either side of the pronotum 

 and the front angles of that segment not prominent, of which 

 the described species already known as Australian s^YQ/errugineus, 

 Steph., parviilus, Gr , and pusillus, Schonh. I took a single 

 example on the Victorian mountains of a Ladmophloeus (female) 

 which is extremely close to Murrayensis but probably distinct 

 Its prothorax is considerably more narrowed behind and not 

 flattened dorsally ; its tubercle also is smaller and nearer to the 

 front. It is better, however, in the case of so extremely close a 

 species not to describe without seeing the male. 



S. Australia (near Murray Bridge). 



L. Lindi, Blackb. In my diagnosis of this species (P.L.S., 

 N.S.W., 1888, p. 841) I characterised its pronotum as "utrinque 

 subtiliter bistriatum" and in the remarks that followed I noted 

 the external of the two strise as "extremely fine and scarcely 

 continuously traceable." Since the issue of that diagnosis I have 

 had the opportunity of examining numerous specimens of the 

 same species and find that in some of them this second stria is so 

 faint and fragmentary as to be practically wanting. Unfortu- 

 nately I do not possess an. example, for comparison, of any of the 

 very few other species of the genus that have been diagnosed as 



