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LlPARETRUS FLAVIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



Black; elytra, antennae, and palpi flavous, front legs and 

 all the tarsi more or less reddish. Elytra glabrous, but else- 

 where more or less densely clothed with long hair, dark on 

 the pronotum (except on the sides) and head, mostly pale 

 elsewhere ; abdomen in addition with rather dense, whitish 

 pubescence, becoming subsquamose on propygidium. 



Head rather convex ; with crowded subasperate punc- 

 tures ; clypeus with sides strongly and apex feebly rounded, 

 punctures at base much as between eyes, but sparser in front. 

 Antennae nine- jointed. Prothorax with sides distinctly 

 produced, hind angles widely rounded off, front ones not 

 acute, median line distinct only at base; with fairly dense, 

 subasperate punctures, of small and moderate size. Elytra 

 with sparse punctures of small or moderate size ; geminate- 

 striae distinct; without apical membrane. Hind parts with 

 crowded puncture of sizes as on pronotum, but partially 

 concealed. Front tibiae bidentate, the apical tooth long and 

 acute, the other feeble ; basal joint of hind tarsi longer than 

 second. Length, 5|-5§ mm. 



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

 Type, I. 7854. 



In Blackburn's table of Group 12, the position of this 

 species is somewhat doubtful, as whilst the basal joint of the 

 hind tarsi is distinctly longer than the second, it is certainly 

 not "very much" longer (the type of sericeipennis was 

 described as having the first joint twice the length of the 

 second) ; referring it to I, its position is again doubtful, as 

 the clothing of the pronotum, whilst mostly dark, is mixed 

 with white setae, disregarding the latter it would be associated 

 with occidentalism from which it differs in its clothing, in the 

 much less conspicuously bicoloured elytra, and very different 

 clypeus. At first glance it looks close to ubiqvitosus, of Group 

 15, or like luridipennis on a reduced scale. The elytra are 

 somewhat iridescent, with the base, suture, and sides feebly 

 and narrowly infuscated; the club is sometimes lightly infus- 

 cated. On some specimens there are a few short pale setae on 

 the pronotum, the scales and shorter clothing of the hind parts 

 are usually conspicuous, but a slight amount of grease causes 

 them almost to disappear ; on an occasional specimen the 

 abdomen is obscurely reddish. The sides of the clypeus are 

 rather more strongly rounded on some specimens than on 

 others, but I can find no other differences (on the nine 

 specimens in the Museum) likely to be sexual. 

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