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geminate striae. Propygidium and pygidium densely covered with 

 greyish scales. Legs piceous, anterior tibiae tridentate, teeth not 

 strong, a dense tuft of hair on the under surface of the first joint 

 of anterior tarsi, less on the others, first joint of posterior tarsi 

 €qual in length to the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — King George's Sound. 



25. LlPARETRUS TRIDENTATUS, Mad. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, Vol. II. p. 191. 



Head black, punctate, and clothed with erect dullish yellow 

 hair, with the clypeus armed in front with three recurved teeth. 

 Thorax black, opaque, subsericeous, finely punctate and villose in 

 front. Elytra of an opaque subsericeous-red, with the punctures 

 rather shallow, and the geminate striae tolerably distinct. Under 

 surface black, cinereo-villose, the propygidium and pygidium large, 

 nitid, finely punctate and very sparingly villose. Legs piceous, 

 anterior tibiae tridentate, first joint of posterior tarsi much longer 

 than the second. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Hab. — Gayndah. 



26. LlPARETRUS ASPER, n. Sp. 



Elongate-ovate, black, subnitid. Head densely punctate, with 

 blackish-villose hairs, the clypeus very slightly bisinuate at the 

 apex. Thorax thinly and finely punctate, with a frill of long erect 

 black hairs on the base, apex, and sides Elytra finely and rugosely 

 punctate, the geminate striae indistinct. Body beneath densely 

 cinereo-villose, more thinly on the abdominal segments, and very 

 sparingly on the pygidium, which is punctate and slightly carinate. 

 Legs piceous, the anterior tibise tridentate, the spur on the inner 

 apex long, moderately strong and slightly curved. Claws rather 

 divergent, first joint of posterior tarsi considerably longer than the 

 second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — New South Wales. 



