a 
preceding resembles Lactica but it does not appear possible to 
associate with that genus species in which there are no distinct 
longitudinal sulci on the prothorax. It should be noted that the 
mucro of the intermediate tibie is in H. /awta little more than a 
conical projection from the tarsal cavity which I have only been 
able to identify by removing the tarsus, but it undoubtedly is a 
small mucro. 
H. lauta, sp. nov. Ovalis, sat elongata; minus convexa; sat 
nitida ; lurida, antennis (articulis basalibus 3 vel 4 exceptis) 
nigris, corpore supra hic illic (presertim elytris postice) 
indeterminate infuscato, corpore subtus piceo ; capite sparsim 
subtiliter punctulato, inter oculos leviter sulcato; anten- 
narum articulo 3° quam 4"* haud longiori; prothorace quam 
longiori paullo plus quam duplo latiori, antice haud multo 
angustato, fere ut caput punctulato, lateribus leviter 
arcuatis, angulis omnibus distinctis nec acutis; elytris subt- 
iliter (apicem versus vix distincte) subcrebre punctulatis. 
one, 12 1.5 dat., +. 
In this species the transverse sulcus of the prothorax is well 
defined (a trifle more strongly than in the European /. pusilla, 
Duf.), and instead of running on to the lateral margin bends 
round obliquely to the base some little distance from the lateral 
margin, but without being bounded by anything that could rightly 
be called a longitudinal sulcus. 
S. Australia; taken near Quorn. 
H. (2?) anomala, sp. nov. Ovalis, sat elongata ; sat nitida ; nigra, 
capite antennarum articulis basalibus 3 prothorace pedi- 
busque testaceis; capite vix manifeste punctulato, inter 
oculos fortiter sulcato; antennis quam precedentis magis 
robustis, articulo 3° quam 4" haud longiori; prothorace 
quam longiori duplo latiori, antice parum angustato, subt- 
iliter sat sparsim punctulato, transversim obsolete sulcato, 
lateribus sat arcuatis, angulis subacutis; elytris subtiliter 
sat crebre punctulatis; tibiis intermediis distincte mucron- 
atis. Long., 1$—141.; lat., ,—#1. 
I have some little hesitation in considering this species con- 
generic with //. /awta on account of the sulcus of its prothorax 
being very faintly marked and the mucro of its intermediate 
tibize being quite well defined. These characters seem too slight 
to justify the creation of a new genus for a single species, but I 
look upon it as very probable that when the Halticites of Aus- 
tralia are more fully known it will be found that these two must 
be separated notwithstanding their similarity both in facies and 
general characters. 
Victoria ; Dividing Range. 
