BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 819 



16. LlPARETRUS NIGROHIRTUS, n. Sp. 



Fulvous or brownish-villose on the upper surface, cinereo-villose 

 beneath. Head and thorax black, densely punctate, the clypeus of 

 the male broad, truncate and slightly reflexed at the apex, the 

 angles projecting laterally. Elytra of a deep dark red margined 

 all round with black, and somewhat variolose-punctate. Legs 

 piceous, anterior tibia? tridentate, the teeth short, the tarsi thick, 

 the first joint of the posterior tarsi nearly as long as the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hob. — Queensland. 



17. LlPARETRUS CALLOSUS, n. Sp. 



Entirely black, nitid, brownish-villose on the upper surface, 

 cinereo-villose beneath. Head densely and finely rugose-punctate, 

 the clypeus in the male large, reflexed and very slightly emarginate 

 on the apex, with the angles acute. Thorax finely and rather 

 rugosely-punctate, without trace of a median depression. Elytra 

 rugosely-punctate, the geminate striae scarcely or not traceable, 

 with a piceous-red blotch on the apical callus of each elytron, 

 extending upwards more or less in the direction of the humeral 

 angle. The propygidium is large, nearly half-covered by the 

 elytra, and with the pygidiurn, is finely punctate. Legs piceous, 

 the anterior tibiae lightly tridentate, the anterior tarsi thick, the 

 posterior with the first joint much shorter than the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Sab. — Sydney (Aust. Mus.) 



18. LlPARETRUS pilosus, Macl. 



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



Head black, punctate, densely villose, with the clypeus of the 

 male broad, reflexed, and acutely pointed outwards at the angles. 

 Thorax also black, densely punctate, and thickly covered with long 

 erect soft light-brown hairs, and with the median line marked at the 

 base. Elytra very dark-red with the suture, base, and lateral 

 margins black, coarsely and irregularly punctate, clothed with erect 

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