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with the pronotum " utrioque bistriatum" but an examination of 

 the ficrures of some of them leads me to think that (at any rate 



in some probably all) the second stria is very clearly defined 



and not much different from tlie inner one. The pronotum of 

 Lindi therefore should I think be called " utrinque unistriatum" 

 with the qualification that in some examples there are faint 

 traces of a second stria. I find also that the short furrow on the 

 forehead (referred to in my diagnosis) is not at all clearly defined 

 in some examples and is not a character on which much reliance 

 can be placed. It seems therefore desirable to furnish an 

 amended diagnosis, which will be found below. Unless all the 

 examples that I have seen are of one sex the sexual distinctions 

 of this species are extremely slight, as in all of them the head is 

 scarcely as wide as the prothorax, and there is very little differ- 

 ence in the antennae. In some, however, the antennae seem to 

 be slightly longer — especially their ninth and tenth joints — than 

 in others. I may add that I have a specimen from the Victorian 

 mountains which differs from my South Australian specimens in 

 having the pronotum evidently less closely punctured, with the 

 disc flattened, otherwise presenting no notable distinction. It is 

 probably another species, but more specimens should be examined 

 before it is described. 



Elongatus ; angustus ; postice leviter angustatus ; nitidus ; rufo- 

 testaceus ; capite (exemplorura visorum) quam prothorax 

 parum angustiori, sat convexo, subtiliter crebrius punc- 

 tulato, utrinque longitudinaliter vix impresso, sulco mediano 

 brevi (leviter vel vix) impresso, clypeo antice subtruncato ; 

 antenuis modicis, quam caput prothoraxque conjuncta vix 

 longioribus, articulis 9° 10" que quam latioribus paullo vel 

 vix longioribus ; prothorace quam longiori parum latiori, 

 postice parum angustato, supra fere ut caput punctulato, 

 utrinque unistriato (nonnuUorum exemplorum stria secunda 

 obsolete impresso), lateribus parum 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, inter- 

 stitiis punctulatis. Long., 1 1.; lat., -f^ 1. (vix), 

 S. Australia. 



i. pusulds, sp. nov. Fem. Elongatus ; nitidus ; parum pub- 

 escens ; testaceus ; capite quam prothorax vix angustiori, 

 minus subtiliter crebrius punctulato, minus convexo, utrinque 

 longitudinaliter impresso, sulco mediano nullo, clypeo antice 

 vix emarginato, antennis gracilibus quam caput prothor- 

 axque conjuncta vix longioribus, articulis 9° 10° que trans- 

 versis (his cum IP clavam sat distinctam formantibus) ; pro- 



