BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 



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thick, emargination strongly transverse; cavernous. Femora 

 dentate, slightly grooved. 



The claw-joint is described by Pascoe as " baud squamoso "; 

 on all the specimens before me, there are certainly no true scales, 

 but on some of them this joint is rather strongly setose. 



Eostrum perfectly straight. 



Less than 5mm. in length sordidatn-^ Lea. 



Morethanomni. in length inte^natus F&so. 



Eostrum slightly but distinctly curved. 



Each elytron at base with a very obscure fascia nebulosus, n.sp. 



Each elytron with two very distinct pale oblique 



fascife albifasciatns, n.sp. 



Mexios internatus Pasc; Mast. Cat., Sp.No.5520. 



'j'he largest(6-7 mm.) species of the genus, with the flat rostrum 

 of M. so7'didatus, and with clothing of the same nature, although 

 somewhat different in colour. 



Hah. — New South Wales and Victoria. 



Menios sordidatos Lea,Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. xx. n.s., 1908, p. 193. 

 Hah. — New South Wales; King Island; West Australia. 



JNIenios nebulosus, n.sp. 



Piceous; rostrum and antennae reddish; rostrum shining in g^ 

 opaque in ^. Densely clothed with soft scales varying from 

 ochreous to dark brown, and very variable individually; scales 

 on flanks of prothorax usually paler than on disc; elytra usually 

 with an oblique whitish fascia behind each shoulder almost to 

 suture; under surface with dingy ochreous-brown scales longer 

 than on upper surface, Prothorax with six indistinct fascicles; 

 3rd and 5th interstices of elytra with feeble fascicles. 



Rostrum rather distinctly curved, sides feebly incurved to 

 middle; in g coarsely, in 9 rather feebly punctate; punctures 

 visible except at extreme base in 9, on apical third only in $. 

 Scape inserted almost in exact middle. Prothorax moderately 

 transverse, sides gently rounded almost from apex to base; with 



