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anticis extus 3-dentatis; "^tarsorum posticorum articulo 



2° quam basalis sat longiori. 

 Fern, latet. Long., 3J 1. ; lat., If i\ 



This species is a member of my lVth Group of Liparetri 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc, S.A., 1905), and inV the tabulation (loc. 

 cit.J must stand beside nigrinus, Germ., i^rom which it differs 

 by, inter alia, smaller size, bicolorous almorst absolutely non- 

 costulate elytra, darker pilosity of dorsal sur-face, and much 

 more asperate pygidium and propygidium. .It is perhaps 

 nearest to the species I have treated as L. sylv:icola y Fab., 

 but differs from it by the very much less coarse sculpture of 

 its dorsal surface (especially of the pronotum amd propy- 

 gidium), the much narrower black base of its elytra, tgtc. It 

 differs from both the species just mentioned by the fro^nt of 

 its clypeus widely emarginate. ^ 



Victorian Alps; Buffalo Mountain. \ 



ANEUCOMIDES. 

 With much reluctance I find it necessary to refer pro- 

 visionally to Aneucomides, the insect to be described below, 

 since, in spite of great difference in facies and in some struc- 

 tural characters that would be generic in many groups of 

 ■Coleoptera, I can find no structural distinction except in 

 respect of characters that are certainly variable within the 

 limits of some genera in the Sericoides. Unfortunately I 

 have been unable to examine some of the mouth parts of 

 the type-species of Aneucomides, as its specimen still remains 

 unique, and it is not unlikely that the maxillae might furnish 

 a valid generic difference if they could be dissected in A. 

 coloratus, but without such dissection the present insect must 

 certainly be placed in Aneucomides. 



A. hirticollis, sp. nov., Mas. Sat elongatus, subparallelus ; 

 sat nitidus ; testaceus, capite antennis pedibusque 

 nonnihil ruf escentibus ; capite sparsim, pronoto pygidio 

 et corpore subtus dense, hirsutis ; palpis maxillaribus 

 valde elongatis, articulis 2° quam 3 US multo longiori, 

 3° 4° que inter se sat aequalibus ; maxillarum lobo externo 

 ;sat f ortiter bidentato ; mento et palpis labialibus fere ut 

 A. colorati, Blackb.; labro fere ut A. colorati sed magis 

 exstanti; antennis sat elongatis, 8-articulatis, laminis 

 4 instructis (his articulis basalibus 4 conjunctis longi- 

 tudine sat aequalibus, antennarum articulo 4° intus 

 angulato ; oculis sat magnis vix manif este granulatis ; 

 capite conf ertim subtiliter punctulato ; clypeo antice 

 rotundatum modice reflexo ; prothorace quam longiori 

 duplo latiori, fere ut caput punctulato, antice parum 

 .angustato, lateribus leviter arcuatis, angulis anticis sat 



