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still less than the type like Yarrelli. Its markings come nearer 

 those of IS. bifasciata, Saund., than of any other Stigmodera 

 known to me, but it is certainly not that species. 



EUCNEMID^E. 



neolycaon (gen. nov.) 



I propose this name as a substitute for Lycaon, Bonvouloir 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1875), my attention having been called by 

 Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A. (of Melbourne University) to its being a 

 nom. prcBocc. in Zoology, owing to its use for Mammalia by 

 Brookes (I see Scudder gives it " Smith") in 1827. 



ELkTERID,^. 

 LACON. 



L. Victoria, Cand. In Pr. L.S., N.S.W., 1891, p. 508, I 

 doubtfully attributed to this species an insect occurring near 

 Melbourne, the doubt arising from its antenna? being testaceous 

 or reddish in colour, whereas the description seemed to me to 

 imply their being of darker colour. Subsequently Dr. Candeze 

 sent me a specimen as his Victoria, which is identical with the 

 insect I called by the name. 



L. Jurinensis, sp. nov. Sat latus ; sat opacus ; piceo-ferrugineus, 

 pronoti angulis posticis et elytrorum marginibus (sutura 

 ^■xcepta) plus minusve rufescentibus ; supra setis pallidis 

 brevibus crassis sat crebre vestitus ; capite pronotoque sat 

 crebre sat fortiter punctulatis ; hoc quam in medio longiori 

 vix latiori, sat fortiter convexo (a latere viso), lateribus a 

 basi sat longe ultra medium leviter subsinuatim divergenti- 

 bus (hinc ad apicem fortiter convergentibus); elytris quam 

 prothorax ut 9 ad 5 longioribus, subobsolefce punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis planis biseriatim (quam striae hsud magis 

 subtiliter) punctulatis plus minusve distincte granulatis vel 

 rugulosis, — epipleuris adversus abdominis basin recte trun- 

 catis ; coxis posticis in medio subito fortiter angustatis ; 

 sulcis ad tarsos recipiendos in prosterno metasternoque sat 

 fortiter impressis nee (ut L. caliginosi, Guer., sunt) bene 

 definitis. Long., 2^ — 34 1.; lat., 1 — li 1. 



A very distinct little species ; the following characters in 

 combination distinguish it from all its described Australian 

 congeners : — Tarsal sulci on sterna very distinct but not sharply 

 cut, front part of epipleurae narrowed opposite the hindmargin 

 by a straight truncation, hind coxae suddenly and strongly nar- 

 rowed about halfway between their base and the lateral margin 

 of the body, elytra much longer than but less than twice as long 

 as the prothorax, the punctures of the elytral striae not larger 



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