suture (where it is nearly as strong as in the stride) towards the 

 external margin, the interstices between the middle of the elytra 

 and the margin being scarcely visibly punctulate. The sculpture 

 of the elytra is very much as in the European Phalacrus caricis, 

 Sturm., the punctures in the strise and in the inner interstices 

 being about as they are in that species. The punctures in the 

 st7'ice scarcely become feebler towards the lateral margin, nor are 

 they very much liner even close to the apex. 

 Western Australia. 



Z. lateralis, sp. nov. Breviter ovalis ; postice parum angustatus ; 

 nitidus ; piceo-niger, capite et elytrorum apice paullo rufes- 

 centibus, antennis palpis pedibus et corpore subtus testaceis 

 (his nonnullis exemplis paullo infuscatis) ; capite protho- 

 raceque confertim perspicue punctulatis ; elytris vix striatis, 

 striis subfortiter punctulatis ; interstitiis omnibus jeque con- 

 fuse perspicue punctulatis. Long., 1 — 1 1 1. ; lat., | — i 1. 

 var? major; prothorace sat late rufo-cingulato. Long., 1|- 1. ; 

 lat., 1 1. 



This species is larger than L. sutu7rJlus, and is very differently 

 coloured ; in shape and sculpture the two are very similar, except 

 in L. lateralis having the lateral interstices of its elytra punctured 

 quite as strongly as the interstices near the suture. 



South Australia ; near Port Lincoln. The var ? major was 

 taken near Adelaide. 



L. frigidus, sp. nov. Sat breviter ovalis, postice parum angus- 

 tatus ; nitidus ; antennarum clava, capite, prothoraceque 

 (lateribus rufescentibus exceptis), nigris ; elytris rufescen- 

 tibus hie illic infuscatis ; ceteris rufo-testaceis ; caj^ite pro- 

 thoraceque subtilissime confertim punctulatis ; elytris vix 

 striatis striis subfortiter punctulatis, interstitiis omnibus 

 obscure punctulatis. Long., 1 1. ; lat., f 1. 



The most noticeable character of this species is the black club 

 of its antenna?, of which moreover the stem is more slender than 

 in the other species known to me of Litochriis, with the seventh 

 joint scarcely, if at all, longer than the sixth. In the other 

 species I have not found any very available antennal distinctive 

 characters, but they all seem to have the seventh joint distinctly 

 longer than the sixth, and also the third conspicuously elongated. 

 The fact is the antenna:? (owing to the compression of the apical 

 joints, which seem more convex moreover on one of the com})ressed 

 faces than the other) appear different in two examples of tlie same 

 species unless they are absolutely similarly brushed out, and in 

 these minute insects it is difficult to be sure one has attained this 

 result. The puncturation of the elytra in this species is not 

 much different from that of L. lateralis, but owing to the ex- 



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