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LIPAKETRUS. 

 L. plicenicopterus, Germ. — In Lis recent paper on Lipcn'etriis, 

 tlie Hon. AV. Macleay adds some particulars to those originally 

 furnished by Germar regarding this species. I have no doubt 

 Mr. Macleaj's identification of Germar's species is accurate, in- 

 asmuch as (so far as I know) there is only one South Australian 

 species of the same group of Liparetrus in which the pilosity 

 on the disc of the thorax is (as Germar describes it in pJicsni- 

 co'pterui) in contrast by its dark colour with that at the sides ; 

 and that species is plentiful and widely distributed. There 

 still remain, however, several characters of the above-men- 

 tioned species that I have not seen recorded, viz. : — That in 

 many examples the elytra are more orlessinfuscate or blackish 

 at the base, and that the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is very 

 peculiar in form. In the male it is almost square, attached to 

 the tibia by one of the corners, so that the tarsus looks as if it 

 had been broken off and gummed on again ; in the female it is 

 much narrowed at the base, and the basal portion is bent, at 

 an angle of about 45 deg. to the axis of the tarsus, the apex of 

 this bent portion being the point of attachment to the tibia. 

 In the male the claws of this tarsus are short and strongly 

 bent, the inner claw miich more strongly than the outer ; in 

 the female the claws are very similar to those of the male, 

 but are a little more slender, and are equally bent. 



There is another species very closely allied to L. plicBnicop- 

 terns, but having the front tarsi and claws of the male quite 

 different, and the hair on the upper surface paler, which is 

 widely distributed in South Australia. It must be still more 

 closely allied to the Queensland L.fulvoliirtus, Macl. It seems 

 so improbable that an insect having a wide range in Queens- 

 land and also in South Australia should have failed to be 

 noticed in ^N'ew South "Wales that I think the South Australian 

 insect is probably not identical wdth the Queensland one, but 

 as it agrees very fairly with the description (I observe no dis- 

 crepancy except that the thorax is hardly so coarsely punc- 

 tated as from the description I should expect it to be hifulvo- 

 Tiirtus, and that the clypeus is somewhat more strongly emar- 

 ginate) I abstain from giving it a new name. 

 L.Jimhnatus, sp. nov. Niger ; antennis (clava excepta), palpis, 

 tarsis, tibiis anticis et elytris (basi lateribusque exceptis) 

 rufescentibus ; capite crebre subtiliter punctato ; pro- 

 thorace capillis longis brunneis erectis fimbriate, sat for- 

 titer nee crebre punctato ; elytris glabris subnitidis 

 sparsim punctatis, striis 3 geminatis pimctatis instructis ; 

 pygidio crasse (nee profunde) crebrius punctato, sparsim 

 albo-hirto ; subtus sat dense albido-hirtus ; tibiis anticis 

 tridentatis ; unguiculis basi tuberculo setifero instructis ; 



