812 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



These characters are scarcely sufficient to distinguish this species 

 from its allies, and as I regard it as the type of a large group, 

 I append a translation of Germar's original detailed description. 



Head ovate, black, opaque, rugose! y-punctate, yellowish-hairy, 

 with the clypeus elevated at the margin, truncate, in the male 

 produced into a lamina emarginate on both sides before the apex. 

 Labrum transverse, emarginate at the apex. Palpi ferruginous. 

 Antennae ferruginous, of 9 joints, the second joint almost as long 

 as the first, the following short, coarctate, equal, the club brown, 

 triphyllate. Thorax obsoletely canaliculate, punctate, black, the 

 upper surface brownish — the sides and under surface jellowish- 

 hairy. Scutellum punctate, black. Elytra rather convex, each 

 rounded at the apex, ferruginous, more sparsely villose, with three 

 geminate punctate striae, and the interstices more strongly but 

 sparingly punctate. Pygidium large, black, rugosely punctate and 

 densely yellowish villose. Body beneath piceous-black, yellowish 

 villose. Legs piceous, the anterior tibiae strongly tridentate, the 

 anterior tarsi thickened in the male, and the anterior claws 

 furnished at their base with a setigerous tubercle; the first joint of 

 the posterior tarsi shorter than the second, all the pairs of claws 

 equal. 



The habitat of this species is South Australia, where it seems 

 to be abundant and widely distributed. 



2. Liparetrus xanthotrichus, Blanch. 



Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, p. 103. 



Ovate, black, covered with long yellow villose hair. Head 

 punctate, the clypeus of the male broader in front than behind and 

 reflexed, acutely angled, the angles projecting laterally, shallowly 

 emarginate in front and sinuated a little between the emargination 

 and the angles; that of the female narrowed at the apex and reflexed, 

 with the angles obtuse. Antennae testaceous, the club black. 

 Thorax black, opaque, punctate. Elytra dark ferruginous-red, 

 subnitid, punctate, not striate, more thinly villose than the rest of 

 the body, with the base, suture, lateral margins and apex black, 

 the puncturation in the female more distinct. Legs piceous-red, 



