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9 • Differs in being somewhat wider, eyes more widely 

 separated, seventh-tenth joints of antennae evenly produced 

 to apex, and prothorax lightly transverse, with the sides more 

 strongly rounded. 



llab . — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (H. J. Carter 

 and A. M. Lea), Brisbane (Macleay Museum, T. McGregor 

 and T. Lea) ; New South Wales : Tweed and Clarence Rivers, 

 Mount Victoria, Gosford (A. M. Lea), Dorrigo (W. Heron), 

 ^Canterbury, Eden (H. J. Carter), Sydney (A. J. Coates), 

 Jenolan (J. C. Wiburd). Type, 1. 6672. 



A medium-size species of very variable colours ; the 

 .common form (including the type) in Southern Queensland 

 and Northern New South Wales, has the head (parts of muzzle 

 excepted) and prothorax (the base obscurely diluted with red) 

 of a dark slaty-blue (on some specimens almost black), the 

 elytra are rather more brightly coloured at the base, but soon 

 change to coppery, and then to coppery-purple, most of the 

 elytra being of the latter colour ; on many specimens the apical 

 four-fifths of the elytra are of a beautiful deep purple. About 

 Sydney and on the Blue Mountains the common form has the 

 slaty-blue portions of the northern form not so dark, often 

 reddish, with a bluish gloss, and the elytra are usually 

 ■stramineous or flavous, with a coppery gloss (much as on many 

 specimens of grandis). The male has antennae much as on 

 the male of grandis, but is readily distinguished from that 

 species by the hind tibiae without a conspicuous tooth, and by 

 -the basal segment of abdomen not longitudinally carinated. 

 A male from Mount Victoria has the median joints of the 

 antennae unusuall} 1 " stout. 



Lagria decipiens, n. sp. 



<5 . Dull red ; elytra coppery-flavous, about base some- 

 what darker, antennae (parts of basal joints excepted), parts 

 of palpi, apical parts of femora, tarsi, and parts of tibiae 

 blackish. Clothed with moderately dense, whitish pubescence, 

 interspersed with numerous longer and more or less erect 

 hairs. 



Head with crowded and rather coarse punctures. 

 Antennae not very thin, first joint slightly longer than second 

 and third combined, second short, third and fourth subequal, 

 the others decreasing in length, with the tenth distinctly 

 transverse, eleventh granulate, as long as the three preceding 

 combined. Prothorax subcylindrical, lightly transverse ; with 

 crowded and rather coarse punctures. Elytra much wider 

 than prothorax, sides dilated to well beyond the middle ; 

 punctures smaller than on prothorax, and becoming smaller 

 posteriorly. Tibiae lightly denticulate. Length, 10-11 mm. 



