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Menephilus LiETUS, n.sp. 



Near M. corvinus Erichs., ( =M. cyaneipennis Hope), the whole 

 upper surface bright blue (sometimes purplish), underside black, 

 antennae and legs castaneous. 



Head very finely punctate, epistomal suture straight, prothorax 

 subquadrate, truncate at base and apex, twice as wide as long, 

 moderately arcuate and not all sinuate at sides ; lateral margin and 

 channel narrow, basal margin thicker ; disc without f ovege or middle 

 line, minutely punctate (only apparent under a strong lens) ; 

 anterior angles rather squarely rounded, posterior angles obtuse 

 but defined. Elytra parallel, cylindric; striate-punctate, the stria3 

 narrow, the punctures small and regular, intervals flat on disc, 

 slightly convex towards the sides and minutely punctate. Dimen- 

 sions^ 10-12^ X 4:-4| mm. 



Hab. — Kuranda, North Queensland (F. Dodd and A. M. Lea). 



I have identified H. corvinus Erichs., from specimens taken at 

 Dorrigo, New South Wales, and compared with specimens sent 

 from the British Museum. The above differs from it in its sliortor 

 and more convex form, nonsinuate sides of prothorax, the anterior 

 angle squarer, posterior obtuse (acute in M. corvinus), mucli finer 

 punctures, while the elytra are more glossy, and not as in Erich- 

 son's species '^subtiliter transversim rugulosis" but are minutely 

 punctate. Types in the Author's Coll. (eight specimens examined, 

 four sent me by Mr. Dodd, and four taken by Mr. Lea in the same 

 district.) 



Menephilus brevis, n.sp. 



Short, parallel, convex, head and pronotum purple-bronze or 

 blue, elytra variegated, in general green with metallic reflections, 

 the suture purple, all aj^pendages and underside castaneous. 



Head short and wide, epistoma rounded and tumid, its suture 

 straight, eyes just free of prothorax, antennae attenuated at base, 

 7-10 enlarged and subtriangular, 11th spherical; whole surface 

 and that of the pronotum densely, and bj' no means finely punctate. 

 Prothorax subquadrate, but arcuately narrowed in front, its acute 

 anterior angles rather strongly produced; rather depressed and 



