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of //. lacertinum, although the colour is not quite identical. 

 M. Fauvel says (Ann. Mus. Gen., LSTS, p. 68), "obscure rubrum, 

 abclomine piceo." In one of my examples tiie head is nearly 

 black, while tlie prothorax and elytra are reddish ; in the other 

 the head and elytra are red, while the prothorax is nearly black ; 

 but I do not attach any importance to these difterences. 

 //. lacertimim, Fauv. ? Mas. Capite latiori ; tarsis anticisZ 

 fortiter dilatatis : segmento ventrali apicali profunde triangu- 

 lariter anguste inciso, penultimo in medio profunde sub- 

 rotundatim foveato ; supra segmentis 2-4 in medio longi- 

 tudinaliter leviter canaliculato, segmento apicali postice sat 

 angustato. 

 Femina. Capite minus lato ; tarsis anticis vix dilatatis ; seg- 

 mento ventrali apicali postice sat angustato fere ut maris 

 inciso, penultimo simplici ; supra segmentis baud canalicu- 

 latis, segmento apicali postice sat lato. 



LATIIROBIUM. 



L. Victoriense, sp. nov. Depressum ; sat robustum ; sat nitidum ; 

 parce pilosum ; piceo-ruf um ; abdomine (apice excepto) o1)- 

 scuriori, antennis palpis elytris pedibusque testaceis; capite 

 a basi antrorsum angustato, quam prothorax baud latiori, 

 sat fortiter sat sparsim (postice et latera versus magis crebre) 

 punctulato ; prothorace quam latiori parum longiori, postice 

 baud angustato, utrinque sat fortiter minus crebre punctu- 

 lato, angulis omnibus sat rotundatis, lateribus subconcavis ; 

 elytris prothorace sat latioribus, tertia parte longioribus, 

 leviter obscure punctulato-striatis ; abdomine crebre subtilis- 

 sime (apicem versus minus crebre) punctulato ; antennis 

 elongatis. Long., 2f 1. ; lat., J 1. 

 This species is no doubt near L. gratellum, Fvl., described on 

 a unique male from Sydney. Even if the insect before me should 

 prove to be the female of that species, it is sufficiently remark- 

 able in colour to be regarded as an Alpine form deserving a 

 name ; it is not likely, however, that such is the case, for, apart 

 from colour, it differs in the head being narrower as compared 

 wdth the prothorax, and triangular rather than quadrate ; in the 

 prothorax not being narrowed hindward (except, of course, close 

 to the base, where the sides round off into the base), and I should 

 judge in the stronger puncturation of the prothorax, which in 

 gratellum seems to be finer than that of the head ; whereas in the 

 example before me the puncturation of the head and prothorax 

 seems to be very similar in character. I hardly know where to 

 place the present species in M. Fauvel's tabulation of the Aus- 

 tralian Lathrohia (Ann. Mus. Gen., 1877 and 1878), as its tarsal 

 structure would associate it with the group called " T.," while all 



