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marginatis) fortiter sat crebre, pygidio propygidioque (hoc 

 pi] is nigris, illo pilis cinereis, erectis sat brevibus vestitis) sat 

 crasse sat crebre, punctulatis ; tibiis anticis externe sat 

 fortiter 3-dentatis ; tarsorum posticorum articulo 2° quam 

 1 us paullo breviori ; antennis 9-articulatis. 



[Long. 3^, lat. 2 lines. 

 This species belongs to Sir W. Macleay's " sub-section II " of 

 the genus distinguished by the clypeus (in the male at least) 

 having its apex " more or less tridentate." I believe I know all 

 'the species except asper, Macl., and iridipennis, Germ., of the 

 sub-section at all resembling this one in size and colouring, and 

 find that they all differ from it inter alia in not having the elytra 

 margined behind by a row of stiff stout bristles. L. iridipennis 

 is described as having its pygidium glabrous, its prothorax 

 " finely " punctured, &c, while inter alia the prothorax of L. asper 

 is described as having " a frill of long erect black hairs on the 

 base, apex and sides" (the whole surface in the present insect 

 being evenly clothed with long erect hairs). 



This insect is near L. sylvicola, Fabr., from which (apart from 

 the character mentioned above) it differs in the considerably 

 stronger dentation of the front of its clypeus, in the somewhat 

 coarser puncturation of its prothorax, and in the same being 

 distinctly two-fold consisting of large and small punctures 

 confusedly mingled together. 



N.S. Wales ; taken by Mr. Froggatt, near Sydney. 



LlPARETRUS ALPICOLA, Sp.nov. 



Elongato-ovatus ; sat nitidus ; depressus ; piceo-niger, anten- 

 narum basi tarsisque plus minus rufescentibus, elytris 

 testaceo-rufis ; capite prothorace pygidio propygidioque sat 

 fortiter vix crebre squamose vel subgranulatim (his sat dense 

 pilis erectis fuscis vestitis), elytris (his obsolete bicostatis et 

 pilis brevibus erectis vestitis) fortiter confuse, — maris quam 

 feminaa magis crebre, — punctulatis ; tibiis anticis ad apicem 

 2-dentatis et ante basin (g vix, Q magis, distincte) 1-dentatis; 

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