836 MISCELLANEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



57. LlPARETKUS RUFIPENNIS, Mad. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, Vol. I. p. 128. 



Head black, very finely and densely punctate, without pubes- 

 cence, clypeus short, broad, rounded, and renexed, a slight 

 median impressed line on the forehead. Thorax black, finely 

 punctate, slightly impressed on the median line and without hair. 

 Elytra red, a little nitid, rather shallowly punctate, with three 

 geminate striae on each elytron. Pygidium of a dull red or 

 piceous hue, and glabrous. Under surface of thorax cinereo- 

 villose, of the abdomen thinly pubescent. Legs piceous-red, the 

 anterior tibiae strongly tridentate, the spur on the inner apex 

 strong and acute, the first joint of the posterior tarsi equal in 

 length to the second. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. — Port Denison. 



58. LlPARETRUS OVATUS, 11. Sp. 



Shortly ovate, black, above nearly glabrous, nitid, beneath 

 with cinereous hairs. Head finely punctate, the clypeus renexed 

 and rounded. Antennae black. Thorax very densely punctate ; 

 the median line impressed, the sides ciliated. Elytra pale 

 testaceous, very smooth, punctate, with three geminate striae, 

 the suture and the outer margins narrowly edged with brown. 

 Legs and abdomen black, anterior tibiae tridentate, tarsi rather 

 thick, first joint of posterior tarsi much shorter than second, the 

 ungues of all the tarsi large and divergent. Pygidium densely 

 punctate, clothed with very short decumbent pile. 



Length, 3^ lines. 



Hab. — Western Australia. 



59. LlPARETRUS sericeus, Macl. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, II. p. 189. 



Head and thorax black, pruinose, very finely punctate. Elytra 

 dark red, with the base and lateral margins black, broadly rounded 



