852 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



Northern Territory of S. Australia ; collected by Prof. Tate 

 and Mr. J. P. Tepper. 



L. DELICATULA, Pp.nOV. 



5. (?) Ferruginea, supra confertim subtiliter, subtus densissime, 

 albo-squamulata ; capite minus lato minus convexo ; clypeo minus 

 brevi, antice iu medio sat fortite»- reflexo-emarginato, ad latera 

 fortiter rotundato ; prothorace sat convexo, sat transverso, antice 

 angustato, lateribus post medium ampliato-rotundatis postice haud 

 sinuatis, angulis posticis obtusis ; tibiis anticis fortiter tridentatis; 

 elytris postice fortiter ampliatis. Long. 10 lines. 



Sexus alter latet. 



The clypeus and head (backward to the level of the middle of 

 the eyes) are uniformly sparingly and rather strongly punctured 

 and scaled ; the L-ngth of the clypeus down its middle line is not 

 much less than that of the coarsely punctured part behind it of 

 the head, the sides of the same being quite strongly rounded ; the 

 clypeal suture is unevenly bisinuate, the middle part of the 

 sinuation (with its convex side running u[» the head) being very 

 much more strongly curved than the lateral (anteriorly convex) 

 ])arts of the sinuation ; the pai't of the head behind the strongly 

 punctured portion is tinely and densely clothed with scales. The pro- 

 portions of the prothorax scarcely differ from those of L. Darwini, 

 except that the segment is slightly more transverse ; the lateral 

 niar^'ins are slightly crenulate, and behind the post-medial curve 

 (which is almost angular) are wevy nearly straight, and the hinder 

 angles quite obtuse; the surface is rather closely (especially towards 

 the sides), but not coarsely, punctured and scaled ; there is a 

 smooth dorsal line in the hinder half ; the front is very finely 

 margined, the margin punctureless. The elytra and scutellum are 

 punctured and scaled even more finely and closely than the pro- 

 thorax, the former being wrinkled transversely, but not coarsely, 

 and scarcely costate. The propygidium, pygidium, undersurface 

 and legs scarcely difi'er from those of L. Darivini, except in the 

 upper external tooth on the front tibiae being stronger, and the 



