576 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN f'OLEOPTERA, xiii., 



sides, some semi-decumbent setae are visible. The type appears 

 to be a female, and its rostrum is about once and one-half the 

 length of the prothorax. 



CERAMBYCID^. 



M E R I N a: D A . 



Pascoe, Trans. Ent. 8oc. Lond., (2), iv., p. 237; (3), iii., p.570. 



This genus (represented liy man}- species in the Malay Archi- 

 pelago and New Guinea) does not appear to have been previously 

 recorded from Australia. It is distinct by the acutely pointed 

 elytra, pedunculate hind-femoi'a, large basal segment of abdomen 

 (wdiich is also curiously clothed towards the apex in the male), 

 deep impressions behind the cl\'peu.s, and very finely faceted eyes. 

 In our catalogues, it should be placed near ^fpcl/nopus\ it is a 

 very interesting addition to the Australian genera of longicorn- 

 beetles. 



Merionceda AUSTRALiiE, n.sp. (Plate xxix., fig. 8). 



(J. Bright flavous; swollen parts of femora, hind-tibise, an- 

 tenna*, and apical half of elytra black or blackish. Elytra and 

 base and sides of prothorax sparsely pubescent, head with a few- 

 hairs between eyes; rest of upper surface glabrous. 



Head rather long; with coarse punctures betw-een eyes, small 

 and sparse elsewhere; a deep, curved, clypeal suture, which has 

 a short, deep impression extending backwards from its middle. 

 Eyes deeply notched, distant from prothorax. Antennae extend- 

 ing to tips of elytra, first joint not much longer than third, third 

 and fourth cylindrical and equal, the following ones somewhat 

 wider and depressed, eleventh slightly narrower and slightly 

 longer than tenth. Prothorax about as long as greatest width, 

 with a deep, bisinuate impression near apex, behind same with 

 five longitudinal elevations; the median are elliptic and slightly 

 posterior to the others; the outer ones lateral and obtuse; with 

 rather sparse punctures in the depressed parts. Elytra much 

 wider than protliorax, suddenly and strongly narrowed from near 



