BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 815 



geminate striae are still more marked. The legs are nitid, the 

 anterior tibia} very strongly tridentate, the inner spur nearly 

 straight, and the anterior tarsi of the male slightly thickened. 



Length, 5^ lines. 



Hob. — Salt River, King George's Sound. 



Mr. Masters found these insects in vast numbers in the summer 

 of 1865. They passed him in masses on the wing during the space 

 of two hours, all flying in the same direction. Salt River is about 

 100 miles inland from King George's Sound. 



7. LlPARETRUS VILLOSICOLLIS, n. Sp. 



Like L. marginipennis. Head black, finely and densely punctate, 

 densely villose, the hair of a lightish hue, the clypeus of the male 

 broadened at the apex, acutely angled, reflexed and emarginate on 

 the apex. Thorax black, punctate, densely brownish-villose, and 

 slightly impressed on the median line. Elytra ferruginous-red, 

 black on the base, nitid, irregularly punctate, with three geminate 

 striae scarcely distinct, and clothed with long gray hairs on the 

 base, and very short hairs on the rest of the surface. Propygidium 

 black, finely punctate, very convex, nitid and thinly clothed with 

 long cinereous hair. Legs piceous-red, the first joint of the 

 anterior tarsi with the inner lobe strongly prolonged as in L. 

 fulvohirtus ; anterior tibiae strongly tridentate ; the first joint of 

 the posterior tarsi half the length of the second. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hccb. — Southern Districts of New South Wales, Murrumbidgee. 



I have seen what I look upon as merely a small variety of this 

 species from South Australia. 



8. LlPARETRUS FLAVOPILOSUS, Mad. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, Yol. II. p. 190. 



Head and thorax black, finely punctate, and covered with long, 

 yellowish, somewhat decumbent hair ; the clypeus of the male 

 square, acutely angled and reflexed, and very slightly emarginate 

 in the middle ; the thorax has the median line distinct near the 



