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a considerably smaller and otherwise different species. If not 

 to Group 4, it could only be referred to Group 7, and there 

 associated with sericeus, with which it has very few points in 

 common. In general appearance it is close to germari, 

 maxtersi, and semicastaneus , but is abundantly distinct by 

 the clothing of the pronotum. From the preceding species 

 it is ireadily distinguished by the clypeus, and by the absence 

 of a shining impunctate space behind the clypeal suture. The 

 sides of the clypeus evenly diminish to the apex, which is 

 almost truncate, on one specimen it is feebly but distinctly 

 produced in the middle (very feebly tridentate), on the other 

 from some directions it is scarcely perceptibly produced in the 

 middle, from most directions appearing gently rounded or 

 truncate. The setae on the hind parts are distinct only from 

 the sides, and they are denser on the propygidium than on 

 the pygidium. The elytra are tipped by a conspicuous 

 corrugated membranous fringe. 



LlPARETRUS LACINIATUS, 11. sp. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 123. 



(5 . Black; elytra, hind parts, and appendages more or 



less reddish-castaneous. Under-surface, hind-parts, front of 



clvpeus, and lateral margins of pronotum with long stramineous 



hair, elytra with a conspicuous fringe of long reddish bristles. 



Head with rather small and crowded, but not confluent 

 punctures, becoming sparser and larger on front of clypeus ; 

 clypeus with sides moderately diminishing to apex, front 

 strongly reflexed and conspicuously emarginate. Antennae 

 nine- jointed. Prothorax with hind angles widely rounded 

 off, the front ones produced and acute; with fairly dense 

 punctures of moderate size; with vague remnants of a median 

 line. Elytra with moderately large and rather dense punc- 

 tures, becoming smaller and denser on sides and posteriorly; 

 geminate-striae moderately distinct. Front tibiae strongly 

 tridentate; basal joint of hind tarsi almost as long as second. 

 Length, 10-10A mm. 



9 . Differs in having the clypeus smaller, much less 

 acutely angled, and less emarginate in front, legs shorter, and 

 front tarsi thinner. 



Hab. — Queensland : Cairns (Blackburn's collection from 

 — Taylor). Type, I. 7862. 



The basal joint of the hind tarsi, when viewed from most 

 directions, appears to be slightly shorter than the second, but 

 when viewed so that the full length of each is visible, are seen 

 to be of equal length, or almost so. In Group 4 it would be 

 associated with vicariiis, which is a much smaller species, with 



