1110 COLEOPTERA 



This is quite similar to L. reticulatus, but is of rather narrower 

 form, and is distinguished by the more definite contrast between the 

 punctate and smooth portions of the upper surface. The thorax is 

 quite smooth between the punctate spaces ; these, in addition to 

 those at the side and front, consist of four discoidal, nearly circular 

 depressions, the anterior one on each side being separated from that 

 behind it by only a small space ; the punctuation along the anterior 

 margin extends nearly all across ; the disposition of the punctured 

 and smooth areas on the wing-cases is the same as in L. reticulatus, 

 but the latter are proportionally larger. The sides of the thorax are 

 rather strongly bisinuate ; the prosternal process is more dilated and 

 prominent behind the front coxae than it is in L. reticulatus, 



Picton. Helms ; two examples. 



1968. L. elegans, n.s. Glossy, violaceo-niger, legs dark-red, 

 antennae and tarsi black ; scales elongate, depressed, pale-yellow ; 

 the depressed and distinctly-punctured spaces covered with such 

 scales. 



Head with a large angular space near each eye, and the large 

 curvate frontal depression distinctly punctate, the rest of the surface 

 more or less finely punctured. Thorax along the sides, base, and 

 front, excepting the smooth raised space on the middle of the front 

 margin, moderately coarsely punctured, as are also four discoidal 

 spaces, the two frontal nearly round, the others longer ; there are 

 also numerous fine punctures scattered here and there, especially 

 near the anterior angles, but most of the impunctate parts are 

 smooth ; each side is a little angulated behind the middle, nearly 

 straight from thence to the front, whilst behind it is obliquely nar- 

 rowed but hardly sinuated ; posterior angles slightly prominent. 

 Elytra with the following parts distinctly punctured : along the 

 suture and margins, a large angular space extending from the base 

 to the middle, between the hind portion of that and the suture an 

 almost oval spot, a similar one near the hind thighs, a smaller one 

 further back and nearer the suture, and one near the middle of the 

 apex touching the marginal squamosifcy ; the smooth intervals be- 

 tween these, and those on the thorax, greater than in L. reticulatus. 

 Legs with fine yellow setae, anterior tibiae with external protube- 

 rances in addition to the larger terminal one. 



Abdomen almost smooth along the middle, the apical segment 

 evidently punctate and squamose. Prosternal process not de- 

 pressed behind, not perceptibly more dilated behind the coxae than 

 in L. reticulatus ; the process between middle coxae broadly concave 

 and with raised borders ; metasteriium deeply notched in the middle, 

 in front of coxae, without a fovea. 



Length, 6| ; breadth, 2f lines. 



Mount Arthur. Mr. G. V. Hudson forwarded three specimens, all 

 of narrower form and with less transverse thorax than my specimens 

 of L. reticulatus from Wellington and Canterbury. These three I 

 had set aside as varietal forms only, though more distinctly differ- 

 entiated from L. reticulatus than L. rufipes seems to be. 



