BY WILLIAM MACLEAY, F.L.S., &C. 851 



95. LlPARETRUS ORDINATUS, n. Sp. 



Oblong-oval, piceous, nitid. Head covered with decumbent 

 reddish hairs, the clypeus broad, reflexed, truncate, emarginate 

 behind the angles. Thorax black and densely covered with 

 decumbent reddish hair all converging towards the scutellum. 

 Elytra red, densely and irregularly striate and punctate, with some 

 of the interstices a little elevated, and clothed thinly with short 

 whitish decumbent hair. Propygidium exposed, that and the 

 pygidium and abdomen generally densely clothed with yellowish 

 decumbent hair. Anterior tibiae very broad and bidentate, a third 

 tooth near the base. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Sab. — Interior South Australia. 



96. LlPARETRUS M^ECHIDIOIDES, n. Sp. 



Ovate, rather depressed, black, nitid, sharply punctate with a 

 decumbent setiform scale in each puncture. Clypeus broadly 

 rounded and reflexed in front, obliquely truncate on the sides. 

 Thorax rather coarsely punctate and without median line, the 

 anterior angles pointed. Elytra black (in female piceous), striate 

 in double rows of white decumbent setiform scales with the 

 interstices slightly costiform, and covering the penultinate segment 

 of the abdomen. Anterior tibiae bidentate. 



Length, 1J lines. 



Hab. — Piper's Elats, Blue Mountains. 



97. LlPARETRUS STRIATIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



Ovate, blank, subnitid, punctate, villose. Head thinly and 

 strongly punctate, the clypeus broad, nearly truncate and reflexed 

 at the apex, the oblique sides a little emarginate. Thorax coarsely 

 but not densely punctate, fusco-villose. Elytra villose, piceous, 

 striate with two rows of minute punctures in each, and with 

 elevated lines between them. The abdominal segments covered 

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