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leay's Monograph, and is described (while Alr/stersi is not), 
the species must bear the name ''(/erniar/." 
L. capt/latus, Macl. Here, again, the identification of 
the type is mere guesswork. It is supposed to be in the Mac- 
leay Museum, where I find two specimen"-' (male and female), 
pinned into a label bearing the name rap/I/afus. The female 
is in very bad condition, and does not seem to be specifically 
identical witli the male, having strongly pilose elytra, while 
the elytra of the male are glabrous. The specimens named 
capillafus in the Australian Museum are identical (so far as 
can be judged in dealing with Imd specimens) with the female 
in the Macleay Museum. As it was a male that Macleay 
described, I take it that the male in the Macleay Museum is 
probably the real type, and I have accordingly treated it as 
such. It is much like (4erin((ri, Macl., but is very much 
smaller, with different male chaiacters (ij\, clypeus much 
narrowed from base to apex, and front tarsi only very 
slightly thickened). Macleay 's description of rapillatus is 
not definite enough to assist identification of type. It may 
be added that a male standing in the Australian Museum as 
capillatus differs from the male in the Macleay Museum by 
its elytra being pilose and with a dark basal border, and by 
it-s front tarsi being strongly thickened. 
L. dispar, Blackb. I place this species in the second 
group only with hesitation, since the basal joint of its hind 
tarsi is not much shorter than the second joint, and conse- 
quently it is somewhat intermediate between this group and 
the fifth, from the species of which it differs in the following 
respects, infer alia: — From vestitiis, nif/ro-umhratus, and 
glahripennis , by the basal joint of its hind tarsi, notably 
shorter absolutely (as well as in proportion to the se'cond 
joint), from amah His by much larger size and quite different 
colouring; and from eri/fliropterus by its pronotum consider- 
ably more closely punctulate, and its elytra widely dark at 
the base. 
THIRD GROUP (a, B, C^ DD, OF TABULATION). 
The front of the pronotum entirely bordered with a frill 
of erect hairs renders this group easily recognisable among the 
Liparetri which have three somewhat equally spaced exter- 
nal teeth on their front tibiae, nine-jointed antennae, and the 
basal joint of their hind tarsi decidedlv shorter than the 
second joint. The last-named three characters are all well 
defined in all of them, except that in L. lur/ens the difference 
in the length of the joints of the hind tarsi is somewhat 
feeble. If that species were regarded as having those joints 
subequal it would be brought into the sixth group, from all 
