632 new species of australian coleoptera, 



Ph^nomerus. 



Mr. Wollaston* rejected this genus from the Cossonides, and 

 believed it to be related to Meco-pus. I myself prefer! to regard 

 it as being allied to Acicnemis and Berethia. 



Ph^enomerus notatus, Pasc. {I.e. p. 490, pi. xiii. fig. 2). Hah. 

 — Cairns (Macleay Museum). Originally described from New- 

 Guinea. 



Suljfamily ZYGOPIDES. 



Mecopus phthisicus, n.sp. 



(J. Piceous-brown, subopaque. Eyes bordered beneath with 

 white scales; prothorax with a distinct whitish median stripe and 

 two less regular stripes on each side, a few white and ochreous 

 .scales scattered about base; scutellum with dense white scales; 

 elytra with whitish scales disposed in spots at the sides and in 

 short lines on the disc, brown and ochreous scales elsewhere. 

 Under surface with white and pale yellow scales on sterna and 

 liordering abdomen, the 1st and 2nd segment narrowly edged 

 with white, 3rd-5th very densely squamose at the sides, the scales 

 continued across 4th-5th; legs with white scales, the posterior 

 tibiae naked except for a large patch on apical half. Apical half 

 of 1st joint of anterior tarsi with long soft curved hair. 



Eyes finely separated. Rostrum long, curved; rather strongly 

 punctate on basal half (leaving a fine impunctate median line) 

 and finely on apical. Scape passing apex of rostrum; two basal 

 joints of funicle equal. Prothorax feebly transverse, aides rounded 

 and increasing to base, base bisinuate; densely punctate, punctures 

 squamose. Elytra flattened along suture and base, narrower 

 than prothorax and scarcely once and one-half its width; striate- 

 punctate, punctures concealed ; with scattered glossy granules. 

 Pectoral spines long, acute, and marking the base of a subquadrate 

 corrugated excavation. Metasternum and abdomen densely punc- 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 430. 

 t I have, however, seen bat one species of the genus. 



