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larium articulo apicali sat breviter ovali, supra sat 

 fortiter excavato ; antennarum articulo 3° basali longi- 

 tudine sat sequali quam 4 US paullo longiori, flabelli 

 laminis quam antennarum articulus basalis vix breviori- 

 bus; prothorace quam longiori ut 11 ad 6 J latiori, antice 

 haud marginato parum angustato, lateribus crenulatis 

 sat longe pone medium leviter dilatato-rotundatis antice 

 quam postice paullo magis alte reflexis, angulis anticis 

 sat rectis posticis (superne visis) acutis retrorsum directis, 

 basi modice bisinuata haud marginata ; elytris vix 

 perspicue costulatis ; tibiis anticis extus minus fortiter 

 tridentatis ; tibiarum posticarum calcaribus angustis 

 elongatis ; segmento ventrali apicali sequali ; tarsis 

 posticis quam tibiae parum brevioribus. 

 Fern, latet. Long., 12 1. ; lat., 5f 1. 



The presence of ochraceous scales mixed with the white 

 ones gives this species a very mottled appearance suggestive 

 of the species that I take to be squamulata, Waterh. ; but 

 in the latter that appearance is even more conspicuous, owing 

 to the scales being notably larger, of rounded form, and those 

 of ochraceous colour more numerous (especially on the 

 elytra). On the ventral segments, however, the ochraceous 

 scales are almost wanting in the latter, while in L. leai the 

 lateral parts are almost entirely clothed with them. 



Western Australia. 

 L. frenchi, sp. nov., Mas. Sat elongata, sat parallela; 

 obscure f erruginea, antennis palpisque dilutioribus ; 

 leviter pruinosa ; squamis minutis albidis vestita [in 

 capite pronoto et elytris sparsius, in pygidio magis crebre, 

 in corpore subtus creberrime, in pedibus (in his squami 

 paullo majoribus) sparsim] ; metasterno coxisque posticis 

 fulvo-pilosis ; capite crebre fortiter punctulato, clypeo 

 leviter reflexo, antice sat fortiter emarginato ; palporum 

 maxillarium articulo apicali subcylindrico, quam latiori 

 fere triplo longiori, supra haud excavato ; antennarum 

 articulo 3° quam 2 US et quam 4 US nonnihil longiori, 

 ilabelli laminis quam antennarum articulus basalis vix: 

 longioribus; prothorace quam longiori ut 11 ad 6i 

 latiori, antice marginato leviter angustato, supra sub- 

 tiliter sat crebre nonnihil acervatim punctulato, lateribus 

 crenulatis mox pone medium sat fortiter dilatato- 

 rotundatis antice quam postice multomagis alte reflexis, 

 angulis anticis sat rectis posticis (superne visis) subacutis 

 nonnihil retrorsum directis, basi modice bisinuata haud 

 continuatim marginata ; scutello et elytris fere ut pro- 

 notum punctulatis, his perspicue costulatis ; pygidio 

 crebre subtilisse punctulato ; propygidio difformi ; tibiis 



