822 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



clypeus in the male broad, reflexed, and obtusely tridentate on the 

 apex, in the female rounded and not dentate. The thorax is 

 almost velvety, thinly punctate and lightly impressed on the 

 median line. Elytra iridescent and punctate, with the geminate 

 striae distinct. Body beneath cinereo-villose, the hairs on the 

 abdominal segments thin and decumbent, the propygidium and 

 pygidium glabrous, opalescent, and minutely punctate, each 

 puncture appearing to carry a minute scale. Legs reddish, the 

 anterior tibise tridentate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi twice 

 the length of the second. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hab. — South Australia. 



23. LlPARETRUS sylvicola, Fab. 



Syst. Ent. p. 39; Burm. Handb. IV. p. 198; L. convexus, 

 Boisd. Yoy. Astrol. Col. p. 209. 



Black, subnitid. Head and thorax clothed with long black 

 villose hairs, the former densely and minutely punctate except on 

 the vertex, the clypeus broad at the apex and very slightly 

 bisinuate, the puncturation of the thorax thin and minute, with 

 the median line marked. Elytra glabrous, punctate, with three 

 geminate striae. Under surface and pygidium cinereo-villose, the 

 latter finely punctate. Legs piceous-red, the anterior tibise 

 tridentate, the teeth obtuse and flattened, all the claws close, not 

 distended. First joint of posterior tarsi rather longer than the 

 second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — Victoria. 



24. Liparetrus tristis, Blanch. 



Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, p. 104. 



The upper surface entirely free from hair, and of a sericeous 

 opaque black, beneath densely cinereo-villose. Head and thorax 

 densely and minutely punctate, each puncture containing a very 

 minute greyish scale, the clypeus a little tridentate on the apex, 

 and the base of the thorax ciliated with short white hair. Elytra 

 punctate and minutely squamate, a little iridescent, with three 



