190 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



with four rather well defined geminate punctate striag on each 

 elytron. Pygidium black, and finely punctate. Body beneath 

 black, and moderately cinereo-pilose. Legs piceous black. 



373. — LiPARETRUS PILOSUS. n. Sp. 



Length 3| lines. 

 Head black, punctate, densely pilose with the clypeus of the 

 male broad, reflexed, and acutely pointed outwards at the angles. 

 Thorax also black, densely punctate, and thickly covered with 

 long erect soft light brown hairs, with the median line marked 

 at the base. Elytra very dark red with the suture, base, and 

 lateral margins black, coarsely and irregularly punctate, clothed 

 with erect hairs not quite so thick or so long as on the thorax, 

 and separately rounded at the apex. Pygidium and under sur- 

 face of body black, punctate and densely clothed with a long 

 ashen pubescence. Tarsi reddish. 



374. — LiPARETEDS ATRiCEPS, MacL., W. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales, I, page 128. 



375. — LiPAEETRUS- PALLIDUS. n. Sp. 



Length 2| lines. 

 Of a pale red, nitid, punctate, and without pubescence on the 

 upper surface. Head black, with the clypeus broad, short, 

 rounded at the angles, nearly ti-uncate, and of a reddish colour. 

 Thorax with the median line lightly marked. Elytra irregularly 

 punctate each with three tolerably distinct geminate stria?, 

 and broadly rounded at the apex. Pygidium finely punctate and 

 clothed with short hair. Under side of body rather thinly clothed 

 with reddish hairs. 



376. — LiPARETRUS FLAVOPILOSDS. n. Sp. 



Length 3 J lines. 

 Head and thorax black, finely punctate, and covered with 

 long yellowish somewhat recumbent hair ; the former with the 

 clypeus acute and reflexed at the angles, and very slightly emar- 



