544 

 Group 12. 



LlPARETRUS LISSAPTERUS, n. sp. 



Black ; elytra (base, suture., and margins narrowly infus- 

 cated), antennae, and palpi bright-castaneous, legs and 

 abdomen of a darker red. Under-surface with long pale hair, 

 mixed on the propygidium with depressed white scales and 

 on the pygidium with depressed setae or sparse pubescence ; 

 head with short, dense, light-brown, erect setae or hairs 

 between eyes, somewhat shorter and not so dense on clypeus ; 

 pronotum with numerous long, erect, dark hairs, becoming 

 paler at the sides and base, in addition with numerous stout 

 subdepressed whitish setae; elytra glabrous. 



Head with small crowded punctures, in places becoming 

 confluent; clypeus with larger punctures than between eyes, 

 its suture deep and distinct, margins strongly raised and 

 (except for a slight flattening in front) semicircular. Antennae 

 nine-jointed. Prothorax with sides rather strongly produced, 

 hind angles widely rounded off, the front ones subacute ; 

 median line distinct on basal half; punctures fairly dense, 

 subasperate, and mostly of two sizes : small ones denser on 

 the sides than elsewhere, and fairly large ones (about as large 

 as those on clypeus) from each of which arises a long hair. 

 Elytra with sparse and small shallow punctures ; geminate- 

 striae feebly defined. Hind jxirts with somewhat crowded 

 punctures, much as on pronotum, but larger (although 

 shallow) about apex of pygidium. Front tibiae strongly and 

 acutely bidentate ; basal joint of hind tarsi slightly longer 

 than second. Length, 9 mm. 



Hah. — South Australia: Murray River (F. R. Zietz). 

 Type (unique), I. 7853. 



In Blackburn's table would be referred to I of Group 12, 

 but as there are numerous white hairs mixed with black ones 

 on the pronotum, it could be referred to neither J nor JJ of 

 that group. In size and general appearance it is close to 

 gravid us, and it has the back parts similarly clothed, but the 

 punctures and clothing of the pronotum are different, and 

 the elytra are glabrous at the base. The elytra are without 

 an apical membrane, and their punctures are unusually feeble. 

 On the type the abdomen (including the hind parts) and hind 

 coxae are of a dingy red ; but it is probable that those parts 

 are usually (or at least commonly) black : with the prothorax 

 closely applied to the elytra it appears to have distinct hind 

 angles, but from certain directions these are seen to be widely 

 rounded off. 



