592 NEW ,SPE(»IES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



Hah. — Galston. (On flowering shrubs in a deep gully.) 

 The above species will come in Sir Wm. Macleay's Sec. ii., and 

 the second division of Sub-sec. B. Of my five specimens, three 

 males agree in having the eyes of a chestnut colour, while in the 

 females they are black. 



LiPARETRUS TUBERCULATUS, n.sp. 



Smooth and shining. Head, prothorax, undersurface, and 

 femora black; elytra, tibiae and tarsi dark reddish-brown; apical 

 abdominal segment tinged with red. Undersurface of the head, 

 pro-, meso-, and metasternum covered with long yellow hair, less 

 densely on the legs, a few also on the abdominal segments, tai'si 

 densely spinose. 



. Head densely and deeply punctate (except at the base where it 

 is very shallowly punctate), clypeal suture not straight. Pro- 

 thorax not so densely nor deeply punctate as the head, a shallow 

 depression at the base, median line unmarked. Scutellum 

 triangular, impunctate. Elytra with the punctures stronger than 

 those of the prothorax, weakest on the disk, and with four 

 geminate striae; shoulders prominent. Pygidium punctate and 

 carinated in the middle, propygidium large, punctate (except at 

 the sides;, and with a distinct rounded tubercle in the middle. 

 Anterior tibiae tridentate, the 3rd from the apex verj'^ small. 

 Length 6, width 3J mm. 



This species evidently belongs to Sir Wm. Macleay's Sec. i, 

 Sub-sec. 3, c. It may be readily distinguished from all others of 

 the genus by the tubercle on the propygidium. I have but one 

 specimen, given me by Mr. Kershaw, senr., of Melbourne, who 

 thinks he obtained it near Newcastle. 



BUPRESTID^. 



Trachys socialis, n.sp. 



Short, subdepressed, the derm shining. Above brassy, with 

 purplish reflections; undersurface, legs and antennae bluish- or 

 coppery-black. Upper surface with rather short, decumbent, 



