533 



Group 2. 



LlPARETRUS SEMICASTANEUS, 11. sp. 



PL xxxvii., fig. 118. 



cf . Black; elytra, abdomen, legs, antennae, and palpi 

 reddish-castaneous. Clothed with long, reddish or stramineous 

 hair, but a narrow transverse portion of pronotum and elytra 

 (except on sides) glabrous. 



Head with crowded punctures, more or less confluent, 

 becoming sparser and larger on clypeus; sides of the latter 

 conspicuously elevated and lightly bisinuate, front wide and 

 obtusely trilobed, scarcely produced at sides. Antennae nine- 

 jointed. Prdthorax with hind angles strongly rounded off, 

 front ones produced and acute; with rather small and not 

 very dense punctures, but becoming crowded on sides. Elytra 

 with fairly large punctures, becoming smaller and more 

 crowded at the sides and posteriorly, geminate-striae well 

 defined. Front tibiae strongly tridentate; basal joint of 

 front tarsi not keeled, but spinose towards and at inner apex, 

 basal joint of hind tarsi somewhat shorter than second. 

 Length, 11 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Kuminin (E. F. du Boulay). 

 Type (unique), I. 7837. 



In Blackburn's table would be associated with germari 

 and capillatus, from the former distinguished by the triden- 

 tate clypeus ( ll \ and the abdomen entirely red (including the 

 hind parts) ; from the latter it is distinguished by its larger 

 size, paler abdomen, and different clypeus. The elytra are 

 terminated by a comparatively wide membranous fringe. 



LlPARETRUS LEPIDOPYGUS, n. sp. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 119. 



Black; elytra (part of base infuscated or black), parts of 

 legs, antennae (club excepted), and palpi reddish-castaneous. 

 Clothed with long whitish hair, but most of disc of prothorax 

 and elytra (except at base and margins) glabrous, abdomen 

 with rather dense depressed whitish hairs or setae; hind parts 

 with white scales, closely applied to derm; and with numerous 

 long, white hairs. 



Head with coarse, crowded, and confluent punctures, 

 becoming much sparser on front and sides of clypeus ; sides 

 rather strongly elevated and obliquely decreasing to apex, 

 apex also strongly elevated and feebly emarginate. Antennae 

 nine-jointed. Prothorax with sides rather strongly produced, 

 hind angles widely rounded off, front ones produced and acute, 



(17) As viewed from behind, it is not strongly tridentate, as 

 in Macleay's Sec. 1, Subsec. 2, but belongs to Subsec. 1. 



