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projection at the middle of the apex of the clypeus, it is quite 

 conspicuous from the side, but does not interfere with the 

 front outline as viewed from above. 



Group 15. 



LlPARETRUS IRREGULARIS, 11. sp. 



Black and reddish-castaneous ; antennae and palpi 

 flavous. Densely clothed with long whitish hair on under- 

 surface (but somewhat shorter and sparser on abdomen,, 

 including hind parts, than on sterna), head sparsely clothed, 

 pronotum with rather dark hair, forming a wide loose fringe 

 across and near apex (but a few hairs on middle of disc)^ 

 each side with a fringe but becoming pale towards base; elytra 

 glabrous. 



Hear/ with crowded and small punctures, but with some 

 larger ones in irregular transverse series ; clypeus with less 

 crowded punctures but somewhat larger than those between 

 eyes, sides rounded, apex very feebly incurved to middle. 

 Antennae eight-jointed. Prothorax less transverse than 

 usual, sides and base rounded, hind angles widely rounded 

 off, the front ones produced and acute, median line indistinct ; 

 punctures rather small and crowded on sides, but sparser 

 elsewhere, and with some larger (but not very large) ones 

 scattered about. Elytra with fairly numerous punctures of 

 moderate size ; geminate-striae conspicuous. Hind parts with 

 dense, subasperate punctures. Front tibiae strongly but 

 obtusely tridentate : two basal joints of hind tarsi subequal. 

 Length, 6] mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane (A. M. Lea). Type 

 (unique), I. 7863. 



In Group 15 would be associated with rubicund us, from 

 the description of which it differs in having the sterna and 

 hind coxae black, the pronotum with some rather large 

 punctures, the geminate-striae on the elytra conspicuous, and 

 the hind parts with rather short and dense clothing ; if the 

 type is a male it is readily distinguished from the male of 

 ferrugineus by the clypeus, if a female by the clothing of the 

 pronotum, etc. With the full length of the two basal joints 

 of hind tarsi clearly visible they are seen to be equal or almost 

 so, but from most directions the first appears to be shorter 

 than the second. The fifth joint of the antennae is very 

 small, so that at first they appear to be but seven- jointed, but 

 from some directions it is sufficiently distinct. The reddish 

 parts are the pronotum (but all its margins are infuscated or 

 black), elytra (the extreme base excepted), two apical 

 segments of abdomen (but not the base of the propygidium), 



