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tridentatis * tibiarum posticarum calcaribus sat brevibus 

 sat dilatatis ; segmento ventrali apicali postice late 

 transversim impresso ; tarsis posticis quam tibiae sat 

 brevioribus. Long., 8J 1. ; lat., 4i 1. 

 This species is easily recognizable by the characters cited 



in the tabulation. 



Queensland. I have no note of the exact locality. 



L. suavior, sp. nov., Mas. Minus elongata, postice sat dila- 

 tata; castanea, antennarum media parte, palpis, pedi- 

 busque plus minusve obscurioribus \ squamis ovalibus 

 albidis crebre vestita, squamis in capite elytris pygidioque 

 quam alibi manifeste minoribus ; metasterno sparsim 

 piloso ; supra crebre minus fortiter punctulata ; clypeo 

 in media parte laevi, antice minus fortiter emarginato, 

 modice reflexo; palporum maxillarium articulo apicali 

 breviter late ovali, supra fortiter excavato ; antennarum 

 articulo 3° 2° sat aequali quam 4 US manifeste longiori, 

 flabelli laminis quam antennarum articulus basalis sat 

 longioribus; prothorace quam longiori ut 9 ad 5 latiori, 

 antice sat angustato haud marginato, longitudinaliter 

 inaequaliter in medio laevi subelevato, lateribus leviter 

 crenulatis sat longe pone medium modice dilatato- 

 rotundatis antice quam postice vix magis alte reflexis, 

 angulis omnibus rotundato-obtusis, basi leviter bisinuata 

 haud marginata ; scutello in media parte longitudinaliter 

 laevi ; elytris subtiliter parum manifeste costulatis ; tibiis 

 anticis extus fortiter tridentatis ; tibiarum posticarum 

 calcaribus elongatis modice angustis ; segmento ventrali 

 apicali aequali ; tarsis posticis tibiis longitudine sat 

 aequalibus. 



Feminae antennarum flabello quam maris sat breviori ; cal- 

 caribus posticis magis dilatatis ; segmento ventrali apicali 

 antice foveis duabus profundis impresso ; corpore subtus 

 (exempli typici) minus perspicue squamifero ; pygidio 

 apicem versus nitido sparsim punctulato nee squamifero. 

 Long., 10 1. ; lat., 5£ 1. 

 The puncturation and scaling of this species is very even, 



in the sense that there is very little difference in them in 



the different parts of the insect, beyond that the scales of 



the dorsal surface are quite evidently a little smaller than 



those of the ventral segments, legs, etc. 

 North-West Australia (Roebuck Bay). 



L. perkinsi, sp. nov., Mas. Sat elongata, sat parallela; rufo- 

 castanea, antennis dilutioribus ; squamis parvis rotundis 

 albidis vestita [in capite pronoto et elytris minus crebre, 

 in pygidio magis crebre, in corpore subtus confertim, in 



