BY THE EEV T BLACKBURy. 259 



strigosity of the interstices <rf die ponctiires. Mr. Waieri: :.:i5< 

 says that the example he described was r^mrted by the Rev. F. 

 W. Hope to have been named by Fabricios himselL 



Vietoria. 



(OnORHTXCHIXi ) 



] Z : MTZS ^-^UALIFEOSS, sp.noT. 



Piceos. squamis obscare cineivis dense resdtns: frcmte aeqoadifcer 



leviter convexa : rostra antiee albido«qaamoso ; prothwace 



antice tls angnstato, mgoloso, latmbns sat rotnndatis : 



elytris pnnctidato-stiiatis. interstitiis vix eonvexis. 



g. Elongato-angostiis. elytris qoam prothorax panim ladctribos. 



O. Alinus angnstns, elytris qnam prothcxax sat latiorilHis. 



[LiMig. 2J, la^ 1-1 Kne- 

 This species is much like If. uniformis. Boh., but may be a: 

 once distingtiished from it by the absence of the longitudinal 

 sulcus between the eyes and the evidently less craiTexity of tbe 

 eyes. The scales clothing the surface are of a dark ashy coloior. 

 except on the front of tbe rostrum, where they are almost vhite. 

 X. S. Wales ; Blue Mountains. 



PSOILELES. 



I have in my collection examples of a Tasmanian spedcs wiikh 

 apj^ear to me to be probably P. ob^omgnSf Blancb. That they are 

 really congeneric with the insect from Tahiti <m which the genus 

 Psomelf^ was founded is highly improbable I should say, but I 

 think they are certainly congeneric with Jferimmetes mu/bnRif. 

 Boh. Psotttele^ is an older name than ITeriMMefes, so that if P. 

 obhng^is. Blanch., be a true Psomui& the laane MeriMmmeies would. 

 I think, have to be dropped. 



Tklesica. 



The following species may I think be placed in this gams, 

 although, as is usually the case with Mr. Fascoe's gmeia, there 



