535 



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

 Type, I. 7845. 



The elytra have some long hairs about the base, but as 

 these are very few in number the species should be referred 

 to Group 2, from all the tabled species of which (as also from 

 all those tabled of Group 1) it is readily distinguished by its 

 squamose hind parts, from the preceding species it is distin- 

 guished by the much more acutely angled clypeus of the male, 

 and by the non-iridescent elytra. The clothing of the hind parts 

 conceals most of the punctures, it is denser (and almost white) 

 on the sterna than elsewhere ; the elytra of the three specimens 

 before me are without membranous fringe. On the female 

 the teeth of the front tibiae are all strong and acute, but on 

 the male the hind one is rather obtuse. 



Group Jf. 



LlPARETRUS COMPOSITUS, n. sp. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 121. 



Reddish-castaneous, parts of sterna somewhat darker; 

 head black, prothorax in parts more or less deeply infuscated. 

 Under-surface and legs with long whitish hair, but clothing 

 of upper-surface confined to clypeus and to lateral margins 

 of pronotum, hind parts sparsely clothed. 



Head with crowded but not confluent punctures, becom- 

 ing sparser and larger on clypeus, but a narrow space 

 immediately behind the clypeal suture shining and impunc- 

 tate; clypeus with sides and apex strongly elevated, the 

 former subparallel near base, and then strongly narrowed to 

 apex, which is truncate. Antennae nine- jointed. Prothorax 

 with hind angles widely rounded off, front ones produced and 

 acute, median line very feeble ; sides and apex with dense 

 and rather small punctures, becoming somewhat larger and 

 sparser in middle. Elytra with fairly large punctures, 

 becoming smaller at sides and posteriorly ; geminate-striae 

 well-defined. Hind parts with moderately small punctures, 

 somewhat denser on pygidium than on propygidium. Front 

 tibiae strongly tri dentate ; basal joint of hind tarsi slightly 

 shorter than second. Length, 11-12 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Ankertell and Cue (H. W T . 

 Brown). Type, I. 783£. 



Belongs to FF of Group 4. Looking at the pronotum 

 from in front the lateral, but not the front margins of the 

 type, are seen to be fringed, but on the specimen from Cue 

 there are a few hairs in front (but the species agree in but 

 few details with picipennis), disregarding the few hairs of 

 the latter specimen the species would be referred to HH, and 



