484 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



tarsorum posticorum articulo 2° quam l us duplo longiori; 

 an tennis 8-articulatis; prothoracis lateribus subrectis, angulis 

 posticis prater modum distinctis et retrorsum productis. 



$ antennarum clava quam stipes haud breviori, clypeo 

 antrorsum fortiter quadratim producto, tarsis crassis. 



$ antennarum clava quam stipes paullo breviori, clypeo 

 antrorsum subquadratim minus fortiter producto, tarsis minus 

 crassis. [Long. 3f , lat. If lines. 



This is a very abnormal Liparetrus, but allied I think to L. 

 ferrugineus, Blanch., which it resembles in having antennae con- 

 sisting of only 8 joints, and in its sexual characters (the male 

 having the clypeus more produced and reflexed and the antennal 

 club much longer and the tarsi much stouter, than the female). 

 It presents however the structural difference from L. ferrugineus 

 of having antennce almost of the Scitala type, the joints of the 

 club being of almost equal length and in the male not at all 

 shorter than all the preceding joints together. The teeth of the 

 anterior tibiae too are very different from those of L. ferrugineus 

 being distinctly of the L. deyressus, Blanch., type. This species is 

 not capable of confusion I think with any previously described 

 species. The sides of the prothorax almost straight and narrowed 

 from base to apex and the strongly developed hind angles of that 

 segment are very distinctive. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



LlPARETRUS BRUNNEIPENNIS, Sp.llOV. 



Ovatus ; sat nitidus ; minus depressus ; supra (elytris exceptis) 

 longe griseo-pilosus ; niger, antennis (clava excepta) et 

 nonnullis exemplis palpis tarsis abdomineque plus minusve 

 rufescentibus, elytris testaceo-brunneis margines versus 

 anguste infuscatis ; clypeo prothorace pygidio et propygiclii 

 parte postica fortiter rugulose, capite postice et propygidio 

 antice magis subtiliter magis crebrt>, elytris (his obscure 

 geminato-striatis) fortiter minus crebre, punctulatis ; tibiis 

 anticis externe fortiter (maris quam feminse minus fortiter) 



