842 MISCELLA.NEA ENTOMOLOGICA, NO. II. 



with hairs, and the median line not traceable. The anterior tibiae are 

 tridentate, and the first joint of the posterior tarsi is a little shorter 

 than the second. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Mob. — Wide Bay One specimen (Aust. Mus.) 



73. LlPARETRUS GLOBULUS, n. Sp. 



Shortly ovate, entirely piceous-red, nitid, glabrous. Head 

 minutely punctate, clypeus broad, reflexed, and truncate, with 

 rounded angles. Thorax finely punctate, a few marginal hairs on 

 the sides, the median line deeply impressed. Elytra broad, short, 

 in the female covering the propygidium, finely punctate, thegeminate 

 striae tolerably distinct. The body beneath is almost glabrous, the 

 pygidium finely punctate, the anterior tibiae are tridentate in the 

 males, the third tooth shows in the female, but is nearly obsolete. 



Length, 1^ lines. 



Hab. — Guntawang. 



This is scarcely one of the 2)icipennis group. 



d. Body squamose. 



74. Liparetrus vestitus, Blanch. 



Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, p. 105 ; Yoy. Pole Sud, IV. p. 126, 

 pi. 8, fig. 14. 



Ovate, black, above nigro-villose, beneath cinereo-villose. Head 

 rugosely punctate, the clypeus reflexed and scarcely differing in 

 the sexes. Antennae testaceous. Thorax short, broad, and 

 rugosely punctate. Elytra glabrous, pale ferruginous, nitid, faintly 

 punctate, with three geminate striae, the base black, and the suture 

 and sides margined with black. Pygidium scaly and hairy. 

 Legs black, tarsi ferruginous, anterior tibiae tridentate, the first 

 joint of posterior tarsi a little longer than the second. 



Length, 4 lines. 



Hab. — Tasmania, and South Australia. 



