BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 833 



finely punctate and densely villose. Legs piceous, the anterior 

 tibiae tridentate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi much longer 

 than the second. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Hab. — South Australia. 



49. LlPARETRUS SALEBROSUS, n. Sp. 



Of a somewhat nitid-black all over excepting the legs which are 

 piceous. The head and thorax are nigro-villose, the former 

 densely punctate with the clypeus truncate and reflexed at the apex 

 with obtuse angles, in the male the apex is slightly emarginate, 

 the latter coarsely variolose-punctate with a depressed median line. 

 Elytra thinly villose, strongly and irregularly striate-punctate. 

 Under surface cinereo-villose, pygidium and propygidium rugosely 

 punctate and granulate, and somewhat carinate in the middle. 

 The anterior tibiae are bidentate, the spur on the inner apex long. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Hab. — Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales. 



50. Liparetrus convexiusculus, Macl. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Vol. VIII. p. 416. 



Hab. — Queensland. 



I do not reprint the description of this species as it has already 

 appeared in the publications of this Society. 



51. Liparetrus rubicundus, Macl. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, I. p. 129. 



Entirely a nitid-red except the head which is black. The 

 clypeus is rounded and reflexed in front, and the clypeal suture is 

 straight and bi-impressed. Both head and thorax finely punctate, 

 and clothed with nearly fulvous erect hairs. The elytra are 

 glabrous and punctate, the geminate striae rather feeble, the base 

 with the base of the thorax very narrowly margined with black. 

 The propygidium, which is large, is less thickly villose than the 



