collected in Australia and Tasmania. 229 
Hah, Yy. Australia — Fremantle. 
This is a rather common species in Western Australia_, 
and specimens of it from King George^s Sounds Albany, 
Champion Bay, Swan River, Fremantle, etc., are con- 
tained in the collections of F. Bates and Pascoe, and in 
that of the British Museum, where it stands under the 
name of L. tomentosa, Fabr., or L. tomentosa, Boisd. 
It differs, however, from the Fabrician type of L. tomen- 
tosa, which is preserved in the Banksian collection, not 
only in colour, but in having the elytra more finely 
punctured, with the interstices much more irregularly 
and more strongly plicate (they are very little raised in 
L, tomentosa). The male characters are very similar to 
those of L. graiidis, and the eyes are formed as in that 
species. The description of the male is taken from 
specimens in Mr. F. Bates^s collection, Mr. Walker 
having found female examples only. The violaceous 
fascia on the elytra is evanescent and variable in position 
— at the middle, base, or apex — and is sometimes entirely 
obsolete. 
Lagria australis, n. sp. 
Obovate, shining, greenish-aeneous ; the body beneath, the 
epipleuras in part, and the femora, except at the apex, rufous, 
the rest of the legs, and the antennse, black ; the upper surface 
somewhat thickly clothed with long erect whitish hairs. Head 
narrow, with the sides behind the eyes obliquely converging in the 
male ; coarsely and rugosely punctured behind, more sparsely so 
in front, the punctures very coarse between the eyes ; the upper 
portion of the eyes moderately large and rounded in the female, 
transverse in the female, rather feebly emarginate, separated by a 
space about equalling the width of one of the eyes as seen from 
above ; the antennse very short in both sexes, much thickened 
outwardly in the male, moderately so in the female — ( $ ) joint 10 
strongly transverse and 11 nearly three times the length of 10, 
( $ ) joint 10 slightly broader than long and 11 twice as long as 10. 
Prothorax not wider than the head, convex, almost as long as 
broad, slightly narrower at the apex than at the base, the base 
without distinct margin, the surface coarsely, closely punctate, the 
punctures on the anterior part of the disc more scattered and 
coarser than on the other parts. Elytra about four and one-half 
times the length, and at the base twice the width, of the pro- 
thorax, widest at one-third from the . apex, obliquely converging 
