543 



depressed pubescence. The elytra, although in perfect 

 condition on both specimens, are entirely without a 

 membranous fringe. The clypeus when viewed from behind 

 appears to be semicircular. 



LlPARETRUS PUNCTICEPS, 11. Sp. 



PI. xxxvii., fig. 129. 



Black; elytra (base, suture, and margins excepted), 

 antennae (club excepted), and palpi bright flavo-castaneous, 

 legs of a darker red. Clothed with long hair, mostly whitish, 

 but becoming darker on pronotum, and darker and shorter 

 on elytra. 



Head with irregular punctures ; clypeus with sides feebly 

 diminishing in width to apex, which is very feebly tridentate. 

 Antennae nine-jointed. Proihorax with strongly rounded 

 sides, hind angles widely rounded off, front ones very feebly 

 produced and obtuse, median line not traceable; punctures 

 indistinct. Elytra with sparse and small punctures, mostly 

 confined to the geminate-striae and these indistinct. Hind 

 parts with small and inconspicuous punctures, but more 

 distinct on apical part of pygidium (which is shining) than 

 elsewhere; propygidium very large. Front tibiae tridentate, 

 front tooth long but rather obtusely pointed, the other very 

 ill-defined; basal joint of hind tarsi much longer than second. 

 Length, 6|- mm. 



Hab. — South Australia: Mount Lofty (S. H. Curnow). 

 Type (unique), I. 7852. 



In general appearance close to discipennis and canescens, 

 distinguished from the former by its tridentate clypeus, and 

 from the latter by the conspicuously longer basal joint of hind 

 tarsi. In Blackburn's table it would be associated with 

 albohirtus, from which it differs in the clypeus, in the clothing 

 of upper-surface partly black, hind parts black and elytra 

 completely margined with black. The lateral and basal hairs 

 of the pronotum are pale, those on the disc being conspicuously 

 darker; on the elytra they are entirely dark, seen from above 

 they appear to be sparsely and irregularly distributed on the 

 elytra, but when viewed from in front or behind they are seen 

 to be in almost regular rows. The head immediately behind 

 the clypeal suture is shining and impunctate, then there is 

 a space (about the length of the clypeus) where the punctures 

 are crowded and of irregular sizes (mostly fairly large), behind 

 which the surface is opaque and with sparse punctures ; on the 

 clypeus the punctures are fairly large. The elytra of the type 

 are terminated by a very short membrane. 



