590 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



supra setis suberectis vestita, setis cum squamis inter quas 

 nascuntur concoloribus ; rostro prothorace nullo mode bre- 

 viori, postice ad latera longitudinaliter carinato, cylindrico, 

 sat valido ; prothorace vix transverso sat rugulose punctulato, 

 antice leviter angustato, lateribus leviter rotundatis ; elytro- 

 rum sculptura sub squamositate abdita ; antennis sat validis, 

 funiculi articulo 1° quam 2"^ sesquilongiori (ambobus minus 

 elongatis) ceteris sat brevibus, clava robusta elongata. 



[Long. 11, lat. 3 line. 

 A very pretty species with an intermixture of several colours, — 

 ferruginous, white and blackish, — both in scales and semi-erect 

 setae. The pattern is complicated and not very conspicuous except 

 that the short vittse, — or longitudinal splashes, — of blackish on 

 the disc of the elytra catch the eye at once Of these the one 

 nearer to the suture on either side is a little further from the base 

 than the other, so that the four form something like a V. As I 

 have seen only a single specimen it is possible that the arrange- 

 ment of colours may vary, but I should expect to find the blackish 

 vittse constant. 



S. Australia ; near Adelaide. 



Meriphus raucus, sp.nov. 



(J. Piceo-niger, antennis (apice excepto) et nonnullis exemplis 

 rostro in medio ferrugineis ; squamis pallidis setiformibus 

 (subtus sequaliter sat dense, supra obscurius maculatim) 

 vestitus ; rostro prothorace fere sesquilongiori ; antennis sat 

 longe ante rostri medium insertis, scapo oculum attingenti, 

 funiciili articulo 2** 1° sesquilongiori ; prothorace vix trans- 

 verso, antice fortiter abrupte tubulato, lateribus pone partem 

 tubulatam leviter arcuatis, disco (utrinque tuberculis 

 minutis setiferis instructo) vix perspicue punctulato in 

 medio haud carinato ; elytris obscure striatis, interstitiis 

 alternis sat fortiter elevatis et tuberculis minutis setiferis 

 uniseriatim instructis. [Long. 3, lat. I5 lines (vix)^ 



5. Rufescens ; capite, antennis apicem versus, rostri et tar- 

 sorum apice ipso, corporeque subtus (abdomine excepto), 



