848 AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES, 



L. POSTiCALis, sp.nov. 



Ovatus; minus nitidus ; ferrugineus vel ferrugineo-piceus, capite 

 nigricanti ; minus hirsutus ; capite confertim rugose, prothcrace 

 fortius vix crebre, elytris fortiter sat sparsim, pygidio baud evi- 

 denter, punctulatis; elytris sat evidenter geminato-striatis ; clypeo 

 antice rotundato ; tarsorum posticorum articulo primo secundo vix 

 breviori ; tibiis anticis externe obtuse 3-dentatis ; antennis 9-arti- 

 culatis. Long. 3| lines, lat. 2 lines (vix). 



The specimens before me may be slightly abraded ; their upper 

 surface is glabrous excepting a fringe of longish stout hairs on the 

 sides of the prothorax, but probably in fresh examples the pygi- 

 dium and propygidium are thinly clothed with long hairs. The 

 elytra liave three very distinct pairs of punctate striee, and a 

 fourth much fainter, the punctures in the strise being strong and 

 rather close, but not different in character from those with which 

 the interstices between the pairs are rather sparingly sprinkled. 

 The puncturation of head, prothorax, and elytra is successively 

 more and more sparing. The pygidium and propygidium are finely 

 coriaceous and almost o])aque ; under a strong lens indications of 

 scarcely impre.ssed and very sparing punctures may be traced, 

 especially towards the apex of the latter ; there is no trace of a 

 keel. The prothorax is scarcely channelled longitudinally. The 

 elytra are about twice as long as the prothorax down its middle 

 line. The underside is thinly clothed ^vith long hairs. This species 

 may be dLstinguished from L. picipennis, Germ., and L. atriceps, 

 MacL, — both of which it resembles in many i-espects, — by its 

 opaque irapunctate pygidium, and from the latter by its strongly 

 punctate elytra. The specimens before me are probably females. 



Northern Territory of S. Australia ; collected hj Mr, J. P. 

 Tepper. 



N.B. — An example of Liparetriis before me from the same 

 locality as the above, differs in having the elytra considerably 

 shorter ; I hesitate to consider it a distinct species, as I can 

 discover no other dLstinction ; possibly it is the other sex. 



