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pallide ciliato, pygidio propygidioque sparsim pallide 

 pilosis ; subtus sat dense ciuereo pilosis ; clypeo (? alter- 

 utrius sexus solum) antice rotundato-truucato, marginibus 

 minus reflexis ; capite pone medium transversim carinato ; 

 hoc crebre subtilius, prothorace fortius minus crebre ; 

 elytris et fortius et sparsius vix seriatim, propygidio 

 crebre minus fortiter, pygidio minus crebre sat fortiter, 

 punctatis ; striis geminatis evideuter impressis ; elytris 

 propygidii partem dimidiam tegentibus ; tibiis antic is 

 (r' alterutrius sexus solum) externe obtuse tridentatis, 

 unguiculis anticis sat incrassatis ; antennis octies articu- 

 latis ; tarsis posticis elongatis, articulo 1° 2° paullo 

 longiore. Long., 8 mm. 



A single specimen of this species (which does not seem to 

 resemble any hitherto described as having antennae of only 

 •eight joints) was sent to me from AVestern Australia by 

 E. Meyrick, Esq. The distinct, though not strong, incrassation o£ 

 its front claws points to the probability of its being a male. 

 The teeth on the anterior tibiae are equidistant, or nearly so ; 

 the two nearer to the apex are only moderately large, and the 

 upper one is very small. 



Zi. Icetus, sp, nov. Elongato-ovatus, sat nitidus ; rufus, capite 

 pectoreque nigris, prothorace elytrisque antice infuscatis ; 

 supra glaber ; prothoracis, lateribus capillis longis pallidis 

 fimbriatis, margine postico pallide ciliato ; subtus pallide 

 pilosus ; clypeo (? alterutrius sexus solum) antice rotun- 

 dato-truncato, sutura minus fortiter arcuata ; illo, aeque 

 ac capite, rugoso punctato ; prothorace hand canaliculate 

 fortiter minus crebre, elytris sparsim crasse, pygidio 

 propygidioque minus fortiter sat crebre, punctatis ; striis 

 geminatis obscure notatis ; elytris propygidium fere tegen- 

 tibus ; tibiis anticis apice longitudinaliter arcuatim pro- 

 ductis, margine externo medio obtuse dentato ; antennis 

 octies articulatis ; tarsis posticis sat brevibus, articulis, 

 1° et 2° subsequalibus. Long., 7 mm. 



This species is probably not unlike L. ononticola, Eab., though 

 evidently distinct. The very brief original description calls 

 that species 'S^mi^z'ff," which my insect is not, as compared 

 with other species of Liparetrus described by Eabricius, and 

 also calls the elytra '''' ahdomine multo hrevioribus''^ (^^ abdomine 

 hrevioribus " being the expression applied to the elytra of 

 others of the genus), which is evidently inapplicable to an in- 

 sect with exceptionally long elytra. The Hon. W. Macleay, in 

 his recent paper on Liparetrus, gives a detailed description of 

 an insect which he considers to be L. monticola, Eab. (very 

 probably on good grounds), but which does not appear to me 



