820 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



hairs not quite so thick or so long as on the thorax, and separately 

 rounded at the apex. Pygidium and under surface of body black, 

 punctate and densely clothed with long ashen pubescence. Tarsi 

 reddish, the anterior thickened, the posterior with their first and 

 second joints about equal. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Sab. — Gayndah . 



19. LlPARETRUS MlTCHELLI, n. sp. 



Head black, punctate, densely brownish-villose, antennae reddish 

 with the tip of the club brown, the clypeusof the male rectangular 

 and considerably emarginate on the apex. Thorax black, punctate, 

 densely fusco-villose, the median line just traceable. Elytra 

 chesnut red, nitid, thinly but strongly punctate, with the geminate 

 striae indistinct, narrowly margined with black at the base, 

 and moderately cinereo-villose. Body black with the pygidium 

 densely clothed with long soft erect white hairs. Legs reddish, 

 the anterior tibiae strongly tridentate, the anterior tarsi thick with 

 the first joint prolonged on the inner apex, and the posterior tarsi 

 with the first joint less than half the length of the second. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. — Victoria River. 



A single specimen in the Macleay Museum, labelled " Mitchell's 

 Exp., V.R." 



Sub-section II. 



Clypeus of both sexes, or of the male only, more or less 

 tridendate at the apex. 



20. LlPARETRUS KreuslerjE, n. sp. 



Black, nitid, beneath cinereo-villose. Head fulvo-villose, punc- 

 tate, the clypeus of the male bi-emarginate, leaving the middle 

 and the two angles as short obtuse prominences, in the female the 

 angles are more rounded. Thorax finely and densely punctate, 

 free from hair except on the lateral margins, and with a fine dense 

 whitish pubescence on the basal margin, the median line lightly 



