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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF LOMAPTERA 

 (COLEOPTERA: SCARABMIDM, SUBFAMILY 

 C ETON IDES). 



By Arthur M. Lea, FE.S. 

 Lomaptera Hackeri, n.sp. 



Black, or deep blackish-purple; with, or without a faint 

 greenish gloss; each elytron with a large patch of deep red, the 

 two patches almost conjoined close to the suture, along which they 

 extend to about the middle; oblique on their outer edges. Under- 

 surface of head with dense yellowish hairs; prosternum in parts 

 and front coxse with greyish hair; legs in places with short 

 blackish setse; abdomen with a few scattered bristles; elsewhere 

 glabrous. 



Head with dense punctures in front, becoming much finer and 

 sparser on vertex. Prothorax transversely strigose on sides, then 

 with punctures; the disc itself almost impunctate. Scutellum 

 entirely concealed. Elytra transversely or obliquely strigose, 

 except on shoulders and close to scutellar lobe, where there are 

 a few minute punctures only. Sides of undersurface and the 

 femora transversely or obliquely strigose. Pygidium pointed and 

 densely strigose. Tibice curved, and with deep scattered punc- 

 tures. Length £ 20, 9 23 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Coen district (Henry Hacker). 



Mr. Hacker took numerous specimens of this tine insect in the 



Coen district of North Queensland, a district which appears to 



be singularly rich in showy beetles, especially Cetonidte and 



Longicornes, and which he was the first entomologist to explore. 



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