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This species seems to be well distinguished by its peculiar 

 puncturation — very line, close, and evenly distributed — the pro- 

 thorax bearing also a few scattered punctures evidently much 

 larger ; and the elytra having their scarcely marked striae closely 

 set with excessively fine punctures, while a conspicuous row of 

 considerably larger and widely spaced punctures runs down in- 

 terstices 1, 3, &c., 2, 4, &c., being almost l?evigate ; thus the 

 widely spaced punctures of the alternate interstices are much the 

 strongest sculpture of the elytra. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



L. Tiiaculatus, sp. nov. Breviter ovalis ; postice vix angustatus J 

 nitidus ; piceus ; antennis, palpis, pedibus, capite antice? 

 corpore subtus, et macula magna triangulari communi in 

 elytrorum medio posita, testaceis ; capite prothoraceque 

 creberrime subtilissime punctulatis ; ely tris vix striatis, striis 

 puncturis subtilibus seriatim impressis, interstitiis alternis 

 sublaevibus et puncturis sat perspicuis seriatim sparsim in- 

 structis. Long., 11. ; lat., |-1. (vix). 



The colouring of this species (which seems to vary only a little 

 in intensity, and in the elytra of some examples being reddish 

 towards the apex) will, I think, distinguish it from all its con- 

 geners. Its sculpture is very like that of L. alternans (though 

 the punctures in the alternate interstices are scarcely larger than 

 in the strias), but its size and shape, as well as its markings, are 

 very different and seem to be constant. A short series taken in 

 the Victorian Alps seems attributable to this species, although 

 the specimens vary greatly in size, some being quite twice as 

 large as the South Australian examples ; the red spot common to 

 the elytra is, moreover, in most of this Victorian series (especially 

 in the larger examples) evidently less conspicuous. 



S. Australia ; common in the Port Lincoln district. 



L. suturellus, sp. nov. Breviter ovalis ; postice parum angus- 

 tatus ; nitidus ; piceus vel rufo-piceus ; antennis, palpis, 

 prothoracis et elytrorum marginibus (sutura inclusa), corpore 

 subtus, pedibusque, testaceis ; capite prothoraceque subtilis- 

 sime confertim (parum perspicue) punctulatis ; elytris vix 

 striatis, striis subfortiter punctulatis, interstitiis (prsesertim 

 suturam versus) confuse perspicue punctulatis. Long., f-1 1. : 

 lat., il.-|l. vix). 



This species may be distinguished from the others known to 

 me by the conspicuous paleness of its suture, which seems to be 

 constant ; it may be known from the two preceding by the much 

 more strongly punctured stride of its elytra and the quite different 

 style of the puncturation of the interstices, which does not vary 

 alternately, but becomes gradually feebler from that nearest the 



