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as the punctures of its hind parts are more distinct than on 

 rufipennis, it would be referred to II, all the species of which 

 are much smaller and otherwise different. In general appear- 

 ance it appears to be allied to germari and matter*). The type 

 at first glance appears to have the pronotum black or almost 

 so, but under a lens it is seen to be obscurely diluted .with 

 red ; the specimen from Cue has most of the pronotum no 

 darker than the elytra, but its apex, sides, and base (the 

 latter very narrowly) are deeply infuscated, the antennae and 

 palpi are entirely pale (almost flavous). The elytra are 

 terminated by a very short membranous fringe (much shorter 

 — less than half its length — than on the following species), 

 but the membranous fringe at the apex of the prothorax is 

 unusually long. 



LlPARETRUS APICALIS, n. Sp. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 122. 



Black ; eltyra, abdomen, and appendages (club partly 

 black and outer parts of front tibiae blackish) reddish - 

 castaneous. Under-surface and legs with long and somewhat 

 golden or reddish hair, similar hairs margining sides of 

 pronotum, and fairly numerous about the front angles (rest 

 of upper-surface glabrous), hind parts with rather sparse 

 hairs, but in addition with numerous short erect setae. 



Head with rather small and crowded but not confluent 

 punctures, a shallow depression in middle just behind clypeal 

 suture; clypeus with sparser and somewhat larger punctures 

 in front and on sides than between eyes, sides and front 

 moderately elevated. Antennae nine-jointed. Prothorax 

 with hind angles widely rounded off, the front ones produced 

 and acute; with fairly numerous and rather small punctures, 

 becoming crowded on sides; median line absent, except for a 

 feeble basal impression. Elytra with moderately large 

 punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly; geminate-striae 

 well-defined. Hind parts with rather numerous punctures, 

 larger on pygidium than on propygidium. Front tibiae 

 strongly tridentate; hind tarsi with basal joint shorter than 

 second. Length, 10-12 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia: Cunderdin (Western Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Nos. 6652 and 6844). Type, I. 7838. 



Of the two specimens before me there are only three basal 

 joints remaining of one hind tarsus, and of these the first is 

 slightly shorter than the second; regarding it as shorter, the 

 species would belong to Group 4; the clypeus is very feebly 

 tridentate in front (much less than in distant, from which the 

 species differs also in many other respects) ; passing that species 

 in the table it would be associated with picipennis, which is 



