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a few species utterly unlike the rest in these respects, and apparently 

 inseparable from some groups of those with 9-jointed antennae. 

 There is also considerable variety observable in the form of the 

 clypeus, but as the total number of species in the section is small, 

 it is scarcely worth while making subsections founded on these 

 variations as in Section I. 



82. Liparetrus monticola, Fabr. 



Syst. Entom. p. 39, and Syst. El. t. II. p. 184; Oliv. Entom. 

 t. I. g. 5, p. 77, pi. 6, fig. 57, a, b ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 1867 ; 

 Herbst, Coleopt. t. III. p. 137; Boisd. Voy. de l'Astrob. t. II. 

 p. 196. 



Convex and ovate, entirely reddish testaceous except the head 

 and apex of the thorax, which are black, and a narrow margin to 

 the elytra reddish-brown, upper surface glabrous and very nitid. 

 Head minutely and densely punctate, the clypeus rounded, reflexed 

 and nearly truncate at the apex. Thorax as finely but much more 

 thinly punctate than the head. Elytra finely and rather regularly 

 punctate, the punctures larger than those on the thorax, with the 

 three geminate striae distinct. Under surface of body cinereo- 

 villose, the hairs becoming more decumbent on the abdominal 

 segments, the propygidium and pygidium glabrous and minutely 

 punctate, the former half-covered by the elytra, the latter large, 

 vertical, and fringed at the apex with long hair. Anterior tibiae 

 very strongly tridentate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi equal 

 in length to the second. 



Length, 2J lines. 



Hab. — Endeavour River. 



My specimens, from which the above description was taken, are 



from Cooktown. I have no doubt the species was first taken in 



Captain Cook's Voyage along the Australian Coast in the year 



1785. 



83. Liparetrus ferrugineus, Blanch. 



Cat. Col. Mus. Paris, p. 105. 



Shortly ovate, nitid, beneath cinereo-villose. Head black, villose 

 and minutely punctate, the clypeus in the male produced into a 



