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pedibus (in his squamis paullo majoribus) sparsim] ; 

 metasterno sparsim fulvo-piloso ; capite crebrius minus 

 fortiter punctulato ; clypeo in media parte laevi, modice 

 reflexo, antice sat fortiter emarginato ; palporum maxil- 

 larium articulo apicali subcylindrico, quam latiori triplo 

 longiori ; supra baud excavato ; antennarum articulis 2°-4° 

 longitudine sat aequalibus, flabelli laminis antennarum 

 articulo basali longitudine sat aequalibus; prothorace 

 quam longiori ut 9 ad 5 latiori, antice subtiliter marginato 

 leviter angustato, supra crebrius subfortiter punctulato, 

 lateribus creimlatis mox pone medium fortiter dilatato- 

 rotundatis antice quam postice vix magis alte reflexis, 

 angulis anticis obtusis nullo modo prominulis posticis 

 (superne visis) acute rectis, basi minus fortiter bisinuata 

 haud continuatim marginata ; scutello et elytris fere ut 

 pronotum punctulatis (his suturam versus paullo magis 

 crebre et magis rugulose), elytrorum costulis bene 

 definitis ; pygidio crebrius subtilius nonnihil acervatim 

 punctulato ; tibiis anticis extus minus fortiter tridentatis 

 (dente summo parum defiiiito) ; tibiarum posticarum cal- 

 caribus angustis sat elongatis, subtus pernitidis ; seg- 

 mento ventrali apicali postice foveatim leviter impresso 

 et ad apicem in medio anguste leviter emarginato ; tarsis 

 posticis quam tibiae parum brevioribus. 



Feminae antennarum flabello quam maris sat breviori ; cal- 

 caribus posticis dilatatis, subtus opacis ad apicem leviter 

 concavis ; segmento ventrali apicali postice profunde 

 semicirculariter late impresso ; corpore subtus (exempli 

 typici) vix perspicue squamifero. Long., 10-11 1.; lat., 

 4Hf I- 



Differs from all the preceding by the raised edging of its 

 pronotum being (where it margins the -front of the front 

 angles) an extremely fine line not raised above the general 

 surface, together with those angles being quite blunt and not 

 directed forward. 



North Queensland : Cairns (Mr. Lea — his No. 8900 — 

 and Mr. Perkins). 



L. leai, sp. nov., Mas. Minus elongata, postice leviter dila- 

 tata : minus nitida ; picea, plus minusve rufescens, 

 antennarum et femoribus dilutioribus flabello dilution ; 

 squamis sat paruis albidis (nonnullis ochraceis inter- 

 mixes) crebre vestita (his in pygidio minoribus, in 

 pedibus sparsioribus, in elytris oblongis setiformibus) ; 

 supra crebre minus fortiter (pygidio subtilius) punctu- 

 lata ; metasterno sparsim fulvo-piloso ; clypeo leviter 

 reflexo, antice sat fortiter emarginato; palporum maxil- 



