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Head wide with rather sparse punctures, interocular 

 impressions feeble. Prothorax about as long as wide, narrower 

 than head with sparse punctures more or less concealed, but 

 in places subconfluent, sides dilated near the middle, with 

 transverse impressions subapical and subbasal. Elytra wider 

 than prothorax, sides parallel but becoming slightly dilated 

 towards the apex, with numerous well-defined punctures 

 becoming smaller posteriorly and disappearing at apex. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (F. P. Dodd). Type, 

 I. 10832, in South Australian Museum. 



The pale markings at base differ, on some of the specimens 

 there is a subtriangular patch along the suture of each elytron 

 connected with the shoulders, but on others the basal mark- 

 ings are absent or very ill defined. The median fascia is 

 narrow near the sides and is rather suddenly dilated near the 

 suture, but it does not quite touch the sides or suture. The 

 apical markings appear to be always present but are not so 

 sharply defined as the median fascia, they are sometimes 

 obscure and continued along the suture and sides, but not 

 touching the median fascia. In Lea's table the typical form 

 would be referred to III and there associated with flavifrons, 

 from which it differs in being smaller and having the front 

 of head and prothorax black, the legs flavous, and elytral 

 punctures not so clearly defined. The specimens with the 

 basal markings absent would be referred to another section 

 altogether, llll. Elytra with pale markings median and apical, 

 or subapical. 



L. auricoma, var. flaviventris, n. var. 



Differs from the previous species in having front of head 

 and abdomen flavous. 



L. variabilis, n. sp. (fig. 2). 



Black with a bluish or purple gloss, the elytra conspicu- 

 ously purple and furnished with two median and two subapical 

 flavous spots; antennae flavous, the basal and several of the 

 apical joints infuscated. Upper-surface sparsely clothed with 

 straggling, semi-erect hairs, becoming shorter and more erect 

 towards apex of elytra. 



Head rather wide and covered with small clearly-defined 

 punctures becoming subrugose in front, interocular depression 

 distinct. Prothorax transverse, sides strongly dilated in 

 middle, rather narrower than head with a few small punctures 

 and a subapical and subbasal transverse impression. Elytra 

 wider than prothorax, about twice as long as base, sides 



