BY H. J. CARTER. 707 



of 0. Dceyyieli Haag, from Rockhampton. Type in the National 

 Museum, Melbourne. 



Meneristes porosus, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, polished nitid black; antenna;, palpi, and tarsi 

 dark red. 



Head finely but distinct!}^ punctate, with a smooth transverse 

 space behind eyes, epistomal suture semicircular, antennae stout, 

 extending to about half the length of prothorax. Prothorax 

 4-5 X 5 mm., widest at base, arcuate-eraarginate at apex, strongly 

 bisinuate at base, anterior angles advanced and acute, posterior 

 angles forming an acute tooth obliquely produced backward, 

 sides rather widely rounded in front of and a little sinuate 

 behind the middle, lateral border raised, narrowly sulcate within, 

 near each posterior angle a large, deep, pear-shaped fovea, and a 

 shallow oval fovea at middle of base; disc (under lens) seen to 

 be finely punctate; an impressed medial line faintly traceable. 

 Scutellum triangular. Elytra wider than protliorax at base, 

 and twice and two-thirds its length, shoulders rather square, 

 subsulcate-punctate, with nine rows (besides a short scutellary 

 row) of large subrectangular punctures, increasing in size later- 

 ally, decreasing towards base and apex, the two stride nearest 

 suture strongly, others less strongly sulcate, intervals moderately 

 convex, and very minutely punctate; sternum lightly transversely 

 striolate, abdomen longitudinally so, the last segment finely 

 punctate. Front tibiae of male slightly flattened and widened 

 above middle, enlarged, curved and twisted inwards at apex, 

 mid- and post-tibiae curved. In female, tibiae nearly straight. 

 Dimeasions : 15-19 x 6-7 mm. 



Ilab. — Atherton and Cairns, Queensland (A. M. Lea). 



This is the species mentioned in my revision of the Tenebrio- 

 ninai (These Proceedings, 1914, p. 5 4); which, on further examin- 

 ation, is, I am sure, quite distinct from J/, /aticollid Pasc. In 

 my Table (/.c), it should be placed amongst the second group, 

 ^' polished ebony-black"; and may be readily distinguished from 

 the two species { Jf. latior and M. pi'oxivius), with unarmed hind 

 tibiae in male, by the unusual size and form of the seriate punc- 



