BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 295 



Maris antennis prothoracis basin articulis 2 superantibus. 



Feminse antennis prothoracis basin vix attingentibns. 



[Long. 6-8|, lat. 13-2i lines. 



This species may be at once distinguished from M. Australasice, 

 Boisd., inter alia by the third joint of the antennae being very 

 much longer, and the interstices of the elytral strise distinctly 

 convex ; from M. tabidus, Er., (as described by its author), by the 

 base of its elytra being red ; from 31. tabidus (as described by M. 

 Candeze) by the front margin of its clypeus being quite strongly 

 rounded and the mesosternum not showing the characters 

 described ; from M. Eveillardi (at least in the male) by the 3rd 

 joint of the antennae being scarcely shorter than the 4th and not 

 at all shorter than the 5th, and by the excessively close asperate 

 punctui'ation of the prothorax (this character also distinguishing 

 it from M. Australasice) ; from erubescens, Cant)., by the absence 

 of a well-defined prothoracic channel ; it is superfluous to point 

 out the differences from the other species having the elytra red at 

 the base. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



MoNOCREPiDius Olliffi, sp.nov. 



Sat .angustus ; sat parallelus ; minus nitidus ; pube fulva 

 vestitus ; brunneo-piceus, scutello rufescenti, jiixta hoc 

 linea brevi utrinque coccinea, antennis (harum articulo 3° 

 quam 2"^ plus quam duplo longiori, quam 5"^ vix breviori) 

 palpis pedibusque testaceis ; prothorace confertim minus for- 

 titer punctulato postice canaliculato, angulis posticis bicari- 

 natis vix divergentibus, carinis antrorsum subparallelis ; 

 elytris quam prothorax vix latioribus, ad apicem oblique 

 leviter truncatis vel emai-ginatis, punctulato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis vix convexis confertim punctulatis ; prosterno medio 

 sat crebre vix fortiter punctulato, hoc ad latera deplauato 

 suturis prosternalibns rectis ; tarsorum lamella sat lata. 



Maris antennis prothoracis basin leviter superanti ; prothorace 

 quam trans angulos posticos latiori longiori. 



