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ever, as belonging to Group 1, of Blackburn's Tal)le,* it would be 

 associated with L. fuh-ohirtus, from wliicb it differs in being 

 larger, with the prothoracic punctures considerably larger, and 

 the surface more shining: regarding it as belonging to Group 2, 

 it would not fit into either F or F¥, as the clypeus is neither 

 truncate nor rounded in front. It is larger than any previously 

 described black species with red elytra from Queensland. Some 

 parts of the pronotum are very obscurely diluted with red; the 

 elytra of the type are without a membranous fringe. 



LiPARETRUS ACUTANGULUS, n.sp. 



(J. Black: elytra (base narrowly black), hind-parts and append- 

 ages (most of femora excepted) bright reddish-castaneous. 

 Undersurface and legs with long, pale hair, a fringe of similar 

 hair on each side of prothorax, but becoming darker in front, 

 rest of upper surface glabrous. 



Head with rather small and crowded, but not confluent punc- 

 tures, becoming larger and less crowded on clypeus; sides of 

 clypeus lightly elevated and strongly narrowed, apex strongly 

 elevated, lightly emarginate and acutely produced at sides. 

 Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax with sides strongly rounded, 

 hind angles widely rounded off, front ones acute and produced, 

 median line very feeble; with dense and sharply defined but 

 rather small punctures, less numerous along middle than else- 

 where. Elytra with fairly large punctures, becoming crowded 

 towards sides and smaller posteriorly; geminate-stria? well-de- 

 fined. I/ind-parts with punctures as on pronotum. Front tibice 

 strongly but obtusely tridentate; front tarsi rather thick, basal 

 joint keeled internally, claws thickened at base; hind tarsi with 

 first joint conspicuously shorter than second. Length, 7-7| mm. 



^. Difters in having the clypeus short, truncate in front, with 

 the sides not produced, abdomen more convex, legs shorter, and 

 front tarsi thinner. 



i^a6. — Queensland : Brisbane (T. McGregor). 



Belongs to Blackburn's Group 4, and there would be referred 

 to JJ, but the median line of the pronotum, although faii'ly 



* Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 1905, pp, 287-296. 



