BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 591 



obscurioribus ; rostro prothorace dnplo longiori, antennis 

 vix ante rostri medium insertis ; scapo oculum vix attingenti. 



[Long. 3|, lat. 1^ lines. 



The pallid scales (which are more ferruginous in the female 

 than in the male) occupy the sides of the prothorax, and are 

 condensed in a seines of spots down each of the non-elevated 

 interstices, which are wider than the alternate ones. The small 

 setiferous tubercles run in a close row down each of the elevated 

 interstices and there are also a few (somewhat larger) on the 

 non-elevated interstices. The tubercles on the prothorax are less 

 nitid (especially in the male) than those on the elytra. I have 

 seen five males and two females of this species, and the difference 

 of colour seems to be constant. The tubercles on the prothorax 

 seem to distinguish this species from all previously described 

 Meri-pM except longirostris, Pasc, in which the rostrum is said 

 to be three times as long as the prothorax. 



S. Australia ; on Oasuarina near Port Lincoln. 



Meriphus lineatus, sp.nov. 

 Piceo-ferrugineus, antennis capite prothoraceque obscurioribus ; 

 squamis albidis sparsim vestitus ; his in elytris lineatim dis- 

 positis ; rostro prothorace fere duplo longiori ; antennis sat 

 longe ante medium rostri insertis, scapo oculum baud attin- 

 genti, funiculi articulis basalibus 2 subaequalibus ; prothorace 

 baud transverse, antice tubulato, medio carinato, lateribus 

 pone partem tubulatam leviter arcuatis, disco obscure 

 rugulose punctulato ; elytris punctulato-striatis, rugulosis, 

 vix perspicue granulatis, interstitiis alternis elevatis. 



[Long. 2|, lat. I line. 

 I have seen five examples of this species, among which I do not 

 observe any noticeable sexual difierences. The absence of distinct 

 granulation, together with the evident prominence of the alternate 

 interstices of the elytra, down each of which runs a somewhat 

 conspicuous stripe of whitish scales, will distinguish the present 

 insect from its described congeners. 

 S. Australia ; Nuriootpa, <tc. 

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