64 REVISION OF THE SUBFAMILY TENEBRtONIN jE^ 



4-Hind tibiae of <J with triangular tooth, its apex greatly enlarged and 



curved tibialis, n.sp. 



var. Hind tibije without this tooth proximus, n.var. 



5.A11 tibiae of i bidentate, form subcylindric denlipea, n.sp. 



There is little doubt that M. intermedius Pasc, is only a 

 smaller form of the common M. laticollis. Mr. Blair has sent 

 me specimens compared with types, and has expressed his own 

 agreement with this. The type of M. intermedius Pasc, is a 

 female, and is of the form very common in New South Wales, 

 the larger form being more often found in Tasmania and Victoria. 

 Meneristes is a variable and 'difficult genus to separate into 

 definite species, and probably more species will be found. The 

 new species, described below, are all very distinct, two of them 

 from their male tibial characters as shown by the outlines figured 

 below— traced with a camera. Mr. Lea has taken a number of 

 Meneristes at Cairns and Atherton, which are very nitid, and 

 have larger elytral punctures than the typical M. laticollis Pasc. 

 For the present I can only treat this species as a variety. 



M. servulus Viisc, = Menephilus convexiusculus Hope, = (1)il/. 

 nigerrimus Boisd. — JVlr. Blair sends specimens compared with 

 Pascoe's and Hopes types, which show this. I had already noted 

 it on my visit to the Hope Museum in 1907. There is also a 

 specimen in the British Museum box identical with M. servulus 

 labelled M. nigerrimus Laf., but the doubt that must always 

 exist in Boisduval's species renders it undesirable to retain the 

 name. At any rate this species requires another generic title? 

 dijffering markedly from Meneristes in (1) the structure of the 

 prothorax, wdth the rounded unproduced front angles; (2) the 

 very short apical spines of the tibiae; (3) the quite different 

 onychium. As regards (3), Herr Gebien has been kind enough 

 to point out to me the very unusual onychium of M. laticollis 

 Pasc, with its several spines besides the two usual setae, and he 

 further adds, " I do not know another genus, except Phrenapetes 

 of South America, in which that onychium occurs. ' I therefore 

 propose the name 7'eremenes for M. convexiusculus Hope, and 

 M. longipenjiis Hope, the latter of which has also been clearly 

 identified by specimens sent from the British Museum, and which 



