562 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF LOMAPTERA, 



In build and punctures the species is much like cinnamomea, but 

 the colour is very different from that, or in fact from any previously 

 described Australian species. The outer line of the subconjoined 

 ely tral markings is much like a v, but the markings are sometimes 

 very indistinct or altogether absent. The pygidium is more 

 densely strigose than elsewhere and from some directions appears 

 to be covered with small overlapping plates. 



The female is more robust and has the pygidium more pro- 

 duced than in the male, and the abdomen is convex instead of 

 concave along the middle. 



LOMAPTERA MACROSTICTA, n.Sp. 



£. Flavous, base of head and a large oval spot, common to 

 prothorax and elytra, green with a coppery gloss; parts of under- 

 surface and of legs coppery-green, or with a coppery-green gloss; 

 tips of tarsal joints infuscate. Undersurface of head, prester- 

 num, sides of meso- and of metasternum, and of abdomen, front 

 coxse and femora, and inner margin of hind tibise, with yellowish 

 hair. 



Head with dense punctures in front, becoming sparser but no 

 smaller on vertex. Prothorax with sparse and minute punctures 

 on disc, becoming denser and larger towards, and more or less 

 confluent or substrigose on, sides. Scutellum entirely concealed. 

 Elytra densely strigose, except near shoulders and about scutellar 

 lobe, where there are fairly large punctures (except at the base 

 itself). Pygidium widely rounded and densely strigose. Femora 

 obliquely strigose. Length 23 mm. 



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



Allied to L. Duboulayl* but smaller, more compact and less 

 coarsely sculptured, the green portion of the prothorax covering 

 a smaller area in proportion and of the elytra covering less than 

 one-third of the surface, instead of the entire surface except the 

 margins. On the prothorax the large spot is truncated almost 



* There is nothing in the Latin diagnosis of L. marginata Kraatz, to 

 distinguish it from the widely distributed Duboulayi. 



