539 



Hab. — Western Australia (E. F. du Boulay). Type, I. 

 7836). 



In Blackburn's table would be associated with ovatus, 

 from which it differs in having the elytra black or blackish, 

 antennae darker (the first six joints are all darker than on 

 ovatus, the club being black on both) and prothorax with 

 sparser and slightly larger punctures; from a dark variety of 

 rubefactus it differs in being considerably larger, punctures in 

 general finer, and pygidium as well as propygidium densely 

 clothed; in general appearance it is fairly close to dark speci- 

 mens of picipennis, but the pronotum has lateral hairs only, 

 and there are other differences. The legs (except for the 

 teeth of the front tibiae) are almost entirely black. One 

 specimen has the four basal segments of abdomen rather 

 densely clothed in middle, and is probably a male, the other 

 has the abdomen glabrous along the middle, and is probably 

 a female, but the clypeus and legs are practically identical. 

 The elytra are without an apical membrane. 



Group 7. 



LlPARETRUS CARUS, n. Sp. 



PL, xxxvii., fig. 125. 



<3 . Black ; elytra (except for a narrow portion of the 

 base, and for a slight infuscation of the suture and apex), 

 legs (except most of femora), antennae (except club), and 

 palpi reddish-castaneous. Under-surface and legs with long 

 pale hair, a fringe of pale hair (becoming darker in front) on 

 each side of pronotum, rest of upper-surface and hind parts 

 glabrous. 



Head with rather small, crowded, and in places trans- 

 versely confluent punctures, becoming sparser and slightly 

 larger on clypeus; clypeus rather more concave than usual, 

 sides moderately decreasing in width (with curved outlines) 

 to apex, which is strongly raised, and conspicuously, but 

 obtusely, tridentate. Antennae nine- jointed. Prothorax 

 with sides widely rounded, hind angles widely rounded off, 

 the front ones produced and acute, median line shallow but 

 distinct on basal half ; punctures rather small and not very 

 dense. Elytra with rather small and not very dense punc- 

 tures, but becoming more numerous and more or less 

 confluent on apex and sides. Hind parts with rather dense 

 punctures, on pygidium slightly larger than on propygidium 

 or elytra. Front Ubiae tridentate; two basal joints of hind 

 tarsi subequal. Length, 9 mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Lucindale (B. A. Feuerheerdt). 

 Type (unique), I. 7855. 



