BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 825 



more thinly punctate, and villose except on the middle of the disc. 

 Elytra dark red with blackish base, nitid, punctate, with the geminate 

 striae distinct. Body beneath piceous, cinereo-villose, the propy- 

 gidium and pygidium large, finely punctate, and of a dark-red 

 colour. Legs piceous-red, the anterior tibiae tridentate, the first 

 joint of the posterior tar si slightly longer than the second. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Rah. — Cleveland Bay (Australian Museum). 



30. LlPARETRUS OBTUSIDENS, n. Sp. 



Oblong-ovate, nitid, densely fusco-villose on the head and 

 thorax, cinereo-villose beneath. Head black, punctate, the clypeus 

 large, and reflexed with three distinct rounded prominences on the 

 apex. Thorax black, somewhat coarsely punctate, the median line 

 impressed on the base only. Elytra red with the base rather 

 deeply margined with black and the suture very narrowly, and 

 punctate with the geminate striae rather indistinct. Body beneath 

 black, the propygidium and pygidium large, finely and transversely 

 punctate, and thinly clothed with long whitish hairs. Legs piceous- 

 red, the anterior tibiae tridentate, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi longer than the second. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hah. — Bombala (Australian Museum). 



Sub-section III. 

 Clypeus more or less rounded in both sexes. 



a. Body above opaque, velvety, and villose. 



31. LlPARETRUS DISCIPENNIS, GrUer. 



Voy. Coquille, Col. p. 90, PI, 3, fig. 10 ; Burm. Handb. IV. 

 p. 195. 



Velvety-black above, excepting the disc of each elytron which 

 is of a sericeous- orange colour, the under surface is of a nitid 

 black, the antennae excepting the club, the palpi, and the anterior 

 legs are red, the whole covered with long, soft, erect hairs, 

 nearly black on the back, and longer and of a whitish colour 



