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Where there has been a possibility of doubt as to which 

 group a species should be referred to, I have placed it in the 

 group that appears to be its correct one, but have also 

 compared it with species of the doubtful group or groups. 



LlPARETRUS VILLOSICOLLIS, Mad. 



PI. xxxvii., figs. 136, 137. 

 A female of this species (from Gisborne) has the black 

 part of the base of the elytra wider (especially beyond the 

 scutellum) than usual, and the suture, sides, and apex 

 distinctly inf useated . 



LlPARETRUS CAPILLATUS, Mad. 



A male from the old collection, and without locality 

 label, agrees well with the original description of capillatus 

 (except that the front angles of the clypeus are feebly 

 produced to one side, although much let's conspicuously so 

 than on the other species of Macleay's first subsection), and 

 also with Blackburn's comments upon that species; it also fits 

 exactly into the position assigned to it in Blackburn's table. 

 A second specimen (from Badgebup, Western Australia), 

 structurally agrees perfectly with it, but has the clothing of 

 the head and pronotum much darker (this would refer it to 

 FF, of Group 2), but I believe this character to be non- 

 specific ; both have a fairly close-set fringe of short, stiff 

 reddish setae, at the apex and apical sides of elytra. 



LlPARETRUS MASTERSI, Macl. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 138. 

 Mr. Blackburn considered this species as doubtfully 

 distinct from germari, but there are before me two specimens 

 labelled by him as master si and germari (the former from 

 Western Australia, the latter from South Australia), and 

 they certainly appear to be distinct; they present the differ- 

 ences mentioned by Macleay. The specimen labelled master si, 

 and one (from Kalgoorlie) that agrees with it, have fairly 

 numerous hairs on the elytra in addition to those at the base, 

 but the species was referred to Group 2, characterized by 

 "elvtra glabrous or nearly so." 



Liparetrus juvenis, Blackb. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 139. 



Six specimens from the Daly River (Northern Territory) 



appear to belong to this species, or at least to represent a 



variety of it; they differ from the types in being slightly 



smaller, and elytra slightly paler and less iridescent. The 



