832 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



lateral margins and apex densely frilled with very long blackish 

 hairs. The elytra are brownish-black, subnitid, glabrous, and 

 punctate, with the gemmate stria? broad and distinct. Body beneath 

 black and densely cinereo-villose, the propygidium very large, 

 glabrous, and opaque. Legs piceous, anterior tibiae tridentate, 

 anterior tarsi thick, the first and second joints of the posterior 

 tarsi about equal. 



Length, 4J lines. 



Rah. — South Australia. 



47. Liparetrus concolor, Erichs. 



Archiv fur Naturg. VIII. 1, p. 169. 



Very like L. collaris, but a shorter insect, and less densely frilled 

 on the thorax. Entirely of a dull black. Head minutely punctate 

 with a broad very shallow longitudinal depression in the middle, 

 the clypeus narrowly renexed at the sides and apex, the angles 

 broadly rounded, and the middle very slightly emarginate. Thorax 

 black, minutely punctate, frilled with long black hair, and the 

 median line shallow and well marked. Elytra rather shallowly 

 rugose-punctate, with the geminate striae lightly marked. Body 

 beneath densely cinereo-villose, almost tomentose, the pygidium 

 thinly villose and minutely rugose, punctate. Legs piceous, the 

 anterior tibiae tridentate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi shorter 

 than the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — Tasmania, and New South Wales. 



48. Liparetrus criniger, n. sp. 



Ovate, black, subnitid, densely cinereo-villose above and beneath, 

 the hair on the upper surface darker than that beneath. Head and 

 thorax minutely punctate, the clypeus broadly renexed and rounded. 

 Elytra dark red, becoming darker towards the base and sides, and 

 finely and rather rugosely punctate, without, or with scarcely a 

 trace of, the geminate striae. The propygidium is large, exposed, 



