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reflexed, and the median line of the thorax lightly impressed, 

 most distinctly towards the base. The elytra are of a dark 

 brownish-red, without hair, punctate but nob profoundly, with a 

 sutural stria and three geminate ones distinctly marked on each 

 elytron. The pygidium is glabrous and very minutely punctate, 

 the propygydium the same, but with a slight median keel. The 

 legs are piceous-red, the anterior tibiae tridentate, the spur on their 

 inner apex rather long, the tarsi slender, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi nearly as long as the second. The palpi are piceous- 

 red and thick. The antennae are of the same colour, with the 

 club dark-brown. 



Length, 5 lines. 



Hab. — Inland parts, New South Wales. 



42. LlPARETRUS UBTQUITOSUS, n. Sp. 



Black, broadly ovate. Head densely punctate, thinly cinereo- 

 villose, the clypeus in the male rounded and reflexed as in the 

 female, but more nearly truncate. Thorax coarsely punctate, 

 subnitid, cinereo-villose, the anterior angles prominent and acute. 

 Elytra pale red, nitid, coarsely but not profoundly punctate-striate, 

 each elytron entirely narrowly margined with brownish-red. The 

 under surface is cinereo-villose. The pygidium is large, nitid, 

 piceous, glabrous, and finely punctate. Legs piceous, the anterior 

 tibiae tridentate, lightly in the male, much flattened out in the 

 female, the spur on the interior apex very long and slight, the first 

 joint of the posterior tarsi a little shorter than the second. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Hab. — Every part of New South Wales. 



43. LlPARETRUS GLABRIPENNIS, n. sp. 



Shortly ovate. Head and thorax black, densely punctate, 

 clothed with long flaxen hair, the clypeus round and reflexed at 

 the apex. Elytra pale testaceous, bordered with black, glabrous, 

 subnitid, faintly punctate and geminate-striate, and nearly 

 covering the penultimate segment of the abdomen. Body beneath 

 black, rather thinly cinereo-villose, the pygidium nitid and finely 



