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i}horace leviter transverse, postice manifeste ano-ustato, supra 



•crebre subfortiter punctulato, utrinque subtiliter unistriato, 



'disco planato tuberculo elonofato sat magnoins^ructo, lateribus 



parum arcuatis, angulis anticis (superne visis) baud bene 



definitis posticis (superne visis) obtusis sed sursum subden- 



tiformibus ; elybris (certo adspectu) striis dorsalibus 3 (ut 



i. ferruginei, Steph.), impressis, latera versus tenuiter carin- 



atis, interstitiis perspicue punctulatis. Long., | ].; lat., ru 1. 



(fere). 



A narrow elongate parallel species resembling L. murrayensis 



in form and proportions and belonging to the same group, but 



T-ery distinct from it by the much shorter antennae (at any rate of 



the female, in which sex the apical three joints form a more evident 



club than is usual in the genus), the notably stronger and closer 



puncturation of the pronotum (which, moreover, bears a larger 



and differently shaped tubercle) and the obtuse (as seen from 



above) hind angles of the prothorax. These angles, however, are 



minutely turned up in a subdentiform fashion at their extreme 



apex, so that if looked at very obliquely from the side — across 



the insect — they do not appear to be obtuse. 



S. Australia (Port Augusta). 



L. insignlor, ^'^. noY. Fern. Sat angustus ; modice elongatus; 



postice manifeste angustatus ; nitidus ; parum pubescens ; 



testaceus, elytris (exempli typici) postice inf uscatis ; capite 



quam prothorax vix angustiori, subtilissime punctulato, 



minus convexo. sat a^quali, clypeo antice subtruncato ; 



antennis sat gracilibus, quam caput prothoraxque conjuncta 



vix longioribus, sat moniliformibus, articulis 9° haud 10° vix 



quam latioribus longioribus (his cum 11° clavam manifestam 



formantibus) ; prothorace parum transverso, postice sat 



fortiter angustato, supra crebre subtilissime punctulato, 



utrinque subtiliter unistriato, disco vix planato, lateribus 



antice modice arcuatis postice subsinuatis, angulis anticis 



(superne visis) haud bene definitis posticis minutissime 



dentiformibus, elytris (certo adspectu) striis dorsalibus 3 



(ut L. fovruginei, Steph.), impressis, latera versus tenuiter 



carinatis, interstitiis obsolete punctulatis. Long., -^ 1.; lat., 



1% 1. (fere). 



This minute species resembles all the preceding in the scarcely 



marked front angles of its pronotum and the single stria on either 



side of the same. It is, however, of less parallel form, and its 



prothorax is very manifestly more narrowed behind and is 



punctured on its dorsal surface almost as finely and closely as 



that of L ferrugineus^ Steph. It differs also from L. murrayensis 



and piosulce in the even surface of its head and pronotum, from 



