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The great enlargement and distortion of the basal joint of the 

 antennae in the male distinguishes this species from all other 

 Australian LaemopTiloei of which the male has been described 

 except L. diemenensis, and no other resembles it in colour and 

 markings unless it be L. Ramsay i, OIL, which is described as of 

 dark colour with testaceous markings, but its general colour is 

 said to be metallic green with an ante-median elytral testaceous 

 fascia, whereas the present species is blackish with a small 

 humeral spot, two discal postmedian spots and the apex reddish. 

 It is the only Australian LoBmophJmus that I have seen having 

 the dorsal striae evidently (from all points of view) only three in 

 number. 



Victoria (Dividing Range); also sent by Mr. French. 



PLATYCOTYLUS. 



p. Goloratus, sp. nov. Nitidus ; niger ; ore antennarum basi 



pedibusque dilutioribus, elytris macula magna rubra dis- 



coidali ornatis ; capite crebre sat fortiter punctulato ; 



antennis quam corporis dimidium paullo brevioribus ; pro- 



thorace quam longiori ut 5 ad 3 latiori, postice angustato, sat 



fortiter vix crebre punctulato, angulis omnibus dentiformi- 



bus, lateribus leviter arcuatis, basi media leviter impressa ; 



scutello fortiter transverso ; elytris sat fortiter punctulato- 



striatis, interstitiis seriatim punctulatis (5° 7° que carinifor- 



mibus), sutura pone scutellum concava. Long., HI ; lat.,M. 



Smaller than the typical species (P. inusifatus, Oil.) and — 



judged by OUiff's measurements — of narrower form; also very 



differently colored, and with much stronger puncturation of the 



pronotum, which in P. inusitatus is said to be " very fine." 



Queensland (taken by Mr. Dodd). 



LATHROPUS. 



I refer to L%thropus a small Gaoujid which I met with under 

 the bark of Eucalyptus on the Victorian Mountains. It has the 

 general appearance of Lcsmophloeus, but differs from it by the 

 short inconspicuous apical spine of its front tibias, by its short 

 antennae with an abruptly clavate apex of three joints and by its 

 tarsi with the basal four joints all very short — the first scarcely 

 visible — and together scarcely half as long as the fifth joint. 

 Lathropus is a widely distributed genus, having been recorded 

 rfrom South Americd, as well as Europe (the habitat of the typical 

 rspecies) — possibly also from other places — but it has not been 

 hitherto known as Australian. 



L. hrighfensis, sp. nov. Sat elongatus ; modice depressus ; 

 modice nitidus ; tenuissime sparsim pubescens ; testaceo- 

 ferrugineus, elytris circa scutellum et ante apicem infuscatis 

 vel piceis ; capite subconvexo quam prothorax angustiori, 



