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-does not seem to differ except in the larger size of the red blotch 

 -on the elytra, which however does not differ in shape. A speci- 

 men from Tamworth (N.S.W.) is quite like the Victorian 

 example. The lateral marginal stria of the pronotum turns 

 -obliquely in^'ard and forward at a short distance behind the 

 front of the segment and runs across to the front margin, so as 

 to cut off the front corner of the segment by a fine line. Colour 

 TDeing disregarded this species resembles L. major, Blackb., but 

 -differs inter alia by its feebler puncturation which on the elytra 

 is obsolete on the front three-quarters of their length. 



Victoria and N.S. Wales. 

 L. laiUus, sp. nov. Ovalis ; nitidus ; supra piceus vel rufo- 

 piceus, capite antice prothoracis marginibus elytrorum 

 macula communi magna et elytrorum apicibus (l'\te) rufis 

 vel testaceo-brunneis ; subtus cum antennis palpis pedi- 

 busque testaceo-brunneis ; cetera fere ut pra^cedentis 

 (L. plagiati) sed ex puncturis elytrorum interstitiorum 

 minoribus quam L. plagiati multo minus par vis sicut 

 majores (seriatte) vix perspicue apparent. Long., HI; lat., 

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The markings on the elytra (which are constant in the six 

 -specimens I have seen) are very different from those of any other 

 Litocrus known to me. Regarding the darker as the ground 

 -colour of the elytra there is presented a large common well- 

 defined lighter area (which looked at with the head of the insect 

 towards the observer resembles a side view of an open umbrella) 

 with a narrowed prolongation on and around the suture attain- 

 ing the scutellum. Hence the blotch in lautus is triangularly 

 produced in the middle part (only) of its front, while in jolagiatus 

 the front of the blotch is triangularly emarginate all across its 

 width and in maculatus triangularly produced all across its 

 width ; moreover in maculatus and plagiatus the actual suture 

 is linearly infuscate so that there is a slight appearance of what 

 I have called a common blotch being two spots divided on the 

 suture from each other, and this is not the case in lautus. Disre- 

 garding colour and markings lautus is at once separable from the 

 other two by the difference between the finer (confused) punc- 

 tures of the elytral interstices and the larger (seriate) punctures 

 of the alternate interstices being so slight that seriation is not 

 distinctly traceable in anv of the interstices. 



N.S. Wales; Tamworth (Mr. Lea). 

 Z. sparsus, sp. nov. Ovalis; nitidus; supra niger, capite antice 

 et pronoti marginibus rufescentibus ; subtus, cum antennis 

 palpis pedibusque testaceo-brunneus ; antennis fere ut 

 L. plagiati, sed articulo ultimo quam 10"' manifeste angus- 

 tiori et quam 9"' parum longiori ; cetera fere ut L. plagiati, 



