BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 813 



anterior tibiae tridentate, anterior tarsi in the male much thickened, 

 and the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the second, 

 pygidium and propygidium very densely villose. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hob. — New South Wales. 



3. Liparetrus marginipennis, Blanch. 



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



Like L. xanthotrichus but smaller, and sparingly blackish-villose 

 on the upper surface and cinereo-villose beneath. The head is 

 black and rugosely punctate, the clypeus in the male is truncate 

 and rectangular, with the angles a little reflexecl, in the female it is 

 rounded and slightly re flexed all round. Antennae testaceous-red, 

 the club black. Thorax black, opaque, punctate, rather densely 

 villcse. Elytra red, subnitid, thinly villose, rather coarsely 

 punctate, with three scarcely visible elevated lines on each elytron, 

 the base, suture and margins black. Legs piceous-red, the anterior 

 tibiae strongly tridentate; the first joint of the anterior tarsi a 

 little prolonged on the inner lobe, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi much shorter than the second, abdomen black, punctate, 

 cinereo-pilose. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hob. — New South Wales. 



This species has a wide range throughout the inland Districts, 

 especially in the southern parts of New South Wales. 



4. Liparetrus fulvohirtus, Macl. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, Vol. II., p. 189. 



Head and thorax black, densely punctate, and closely covered 

 with erect soft pale-red hairs, the latter with the punctures coarser 

 than those of the head, and with the median line visible. Elytra 

 red except on the basal margin, separately rounded and rather 

 dehiscent at the apex, thinly clothed with erect hairs, and coarsely 

 and irregularly punctate, with the three geminate striae rather 



