BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 827 



are piceous, the anterior tibia? are red, and scarcely bidentate, the 

 terminal tooth being long and straight and the second nearly 

 obsolete ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi is about twice the 

 length of the second. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hob. — Port Denison. 



I originally described this species under the name of basalts, but 

 as that name had been previously used by Blanchard for another 

 species, Mr. Masters, in his catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Australia, has very properly substituted for it the present name 

 albohirtus. 



34. LlPARETRUS SERICEIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



Smaller than L. discipennis. Head and thorax black, opaque, 

 rather velvety, densely punctate, and thickly clothed with long, 

 soft, erect, blackish hairs. Elytra deep red with a sericeous 

 opalescent gloss, and minutely striate-punctate, the base and suture 

 narrowly black-edged. Body beneath black, thinly cinereo-villose, 

 the pygidium minutely but rugosely punctate. The legs are 

 piceous, the anterior tibiae rather strongly bidentate, the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi twice the length of the second. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Hah. — New South Wales. 



35. LlPARETRUS CANESCENS. n. Sp. 



Somewhat like L. discipennis. Ovate, clothed above and beneath 

 with long greyish-white villose hairs. Head and thorax black, 

 opaque, and of a velvety texture, the clypeus glabrous, renexed, 

 and subtruncate, with rounded angles. Elytra testaceous, subnitid, 

 and punctate, the punctures feebly impressed, with the base and 

 sides bordered rather deeply with velvety-black. The pygidium is 

 minutely and rather rugosely punctate. Legs piceous, the anterior 

 reddish, with only the terminal tooth visible, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi is only very slightly longer than the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — South Australia. 



