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FURTHER NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
Lipothyrea. 
LiPOTHYREA (?) VARIABILIS, Sp.llOV. 
Sat anguste ovalis 1) vel ovata ($. 1) ; picea, squainis viridibus 
(super squamas cupreas positis) dense vestita ; antennarum articulo 
secuudo primo paulo longiore ; capite rostroque plus minus dis- 
tincte longitudinaliter subtiliter canaliculatis ; prothorace quam 
longiori fere duplo latiori, antice angustato, (margine antico 
fortiter emarginato), postice truncato, in medio canaliculato, 
lateribus vix arcuatis ; elytris postice abrupte declivibus, apice 
acuminatis (nonnullis exeinplis subspinosis), punctulato substriatis, 
interstitiis 4° 7° et 10° rotundato-convexis. 
[Long. 4|-6, lat. 2-2| lines. 
Freshly coloured specimens are uniformly and densely covered 
with bright green scales which appear to be very easily rubbed off, 
leaving the surface clothed with slightly shining obscure coppery 
scales, under which the derm is pitchy black ; the legs, when 
denuded of scales, are of a more or less decided testaceous colour 
(especially the tibiie ); in fresh specimens the sculpture is almost 
entirely buried under the scales. 
This species presents the characters ascribed by Mr. Pascoe to 
his genus Lipothyrea, but appears to differ so much from the 
species he has desci’ibed (Z. chloris), that it is only with hesitation 
I assign it this place, and it is quite possible that it ought to be 
the type of a new genus of Leptojjsidai. The second joint of the 
antennal fiinicle being longer than the first is perhaps a generic 
character (certainly I think of greater ini[)ortance in this group 
than in many), and it is not shared by L. chloris. The claws (Mr. 
Pascoe gives no information concerning those of Lipothyrea) are 
like those of Leptops, from which latter genus I hardly know how 
to separate the present insect structurally (though it differs much 
in facies from every Leptops known to me) except by the total 
disappearance of the scutellum. The rostral scrobes might seem 
to be distinctive, as also the shape of the rostrum itself, but 
Leptops varies in rostral characters. 
