6Y A. Jt. LEA. 719 



At first glance, the second joint of the hind tarsi appears to 

 be distinctly longer than the first, but in reality it is very little 

 longer. Regarding the species as belonging to Blackburn's 

 Group 4, it would be associated with L. dii<tans^ which is a much 

 larger species with all parts more or less reddish; if not to Group 

 4, it could only be referred to Group 7, and there associated with 

 L. iridipeiiiiis, from which it differs in its bright red elytra and 

 clothing of hind parts (the setae of these are very short and 

 partially concealed by the hairs, but they are very distinct from 

 the sides): each lateral fringe of the pronotum is partly pale and 

 partly dark, and although Blackburn tabulated Z. iridipeniiis 

 as having the fringe whitish, it is almost as often dark or partly 

 dark as whitish; at first glance, it appears to be close to L. 

 perkinsi of Group 10, but the clypeus has less acutely projecting 

 teeth (the type is certainly a male), and the hind parts are 

 densely clothed; L. hihiherculatus (also of Group 10) also differs 

 in the hind parts and in the considerably longer basal joint of 

 hind tarsi. Most of the upper surface is brightly iridescent; the 

 femora are almost black; the elytra (of the type) are without an 

 apical membrane. 



LiPARETRUS INTERMEDIUS, n.Sp. 



^. Black; elytra (except for a narrow space at base), most of 

 tarsi, parts of front tibiae, antenna) and tarsi, more or less 

 castaneous. With long hair on most parts, but elytra glabrous 



Head with crowded and small punctures, but a few of larger 

 size scattered about; clypeus with sparser punctures than between 

 eyes, and smaller than the large ones there; sides moderately 

 elevated and decreasing (with curved outlines) to apex, which is 

 strongly but obtusely tridentate. Antenna? nine-jointed. Pro- 

 thorax with sides strongly rounded, hind angles widely rounded 

 off", front ones subacute and scarcely separately produced; with 

 comparatively large and not very dense punctures, mixed with 

 smaller ones; median line represented by a feeble basal depression 

 only. Elytra with not very dense punctures, no larger than the 

 larger ones on pronotum, and becoming smaller and more crowded 

 on sides ; geminate-striaj fairly well-defined. Hind-parts with 



