228 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleoptera 
Lagria grandis. 
Lagria grandis, Gyll. in Schonli., Syst. Ins., i., 3_, App._, 
p. 9 ; Blanch._, in Dumont d^Urville's Voyage au Pole 
Sud, iv. Ins., p. 183, t. 12, fig. 9; Er., in Wiegm. 
Archiv, 1842, i., p. 370. 
Lagria rufescens, Boisd., Yoyage de ^Astrolabe, Ent., 
ii., p. 286. 
Hah. Tasmania — Hobart. 
Sent in plenty from Tasmania, whence it has already 
been recorded. The male of this species possesses very 
remarkable sexual characters. Found on flowers and by 
beating herbage, also on the wing (Walker). 
Lagria wneoviolacea, n. sp. 
Lagria seneoviolaceaj Deyr., in litt. 
Broadly obovate, shining ; the head, prothorax, and scutellum 
aeneous ; the elytra metallic-green, shading into aeneous, with a 
broad transverse evanescent fascia about the middle, and the inner 
part of the epipleurae, cupreo-violaceous ; beneath, the coxae, and 
the basal half of the femora rufous or ruf o-testaceous ; the antennae 
black, with joints 3 and 4 obscurely rufous at the base ; the upper 
surface somewhat thickly clothed with long erect whitish hairs. 
Head rather broad, coarsely, closely punctate, the interspaces 
irregularly raised ; the eyes transverse, large, not prominent, 
separated by a space about equalling the width of one of the eyes 
as seen from above, exceedingly deeply emarginate ; the antennae 
not half the length of the body, gradually thickening outwardly, 
joint 3 longer than 4, 4-10 decreasing in length, 10 nearly as broad 
as long, 11 as long as 9 and 10 united. Prothorax convex, a little 
broader than long, slightly wider than the head, feebly rounded at 
the sides, the base sharply margined laterally and with the margin 
projecting outwards ; the surface very coarsely and closely punc- 
tured, the interspaces towards the sides transversely raised, the disc 
with a smoother space down the middle. Elytra three and one-half 
times the length, and in the widest part nearly two and one-half 
times the width, of the prothorax, widest at one-third from the 
apex, very obtuse behind, closely, coarsely punctate, the inter- 
spaces smooth and transversely or obliquely plicate. Beneath very 
sparsely punctured. 
^ . Antennae with joint 1 more elongate, and 8-10 shorter, than 
in the female, 9 and 10 sharply produced at their inner apical 
angle, 11 nearly as long as 8-10 united ; the tibiae bowed inwards 
and denticulate on their inner edge. 
Length 10-12, breadth 4{-5- mm. ( ? ). 
