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vals convex, and finely punctate (the punctures becoming larger 

 and intervals sharper towards sides). Abdomen densely and deli- 

 cately punctate, prosternum finely striolate, tibiae straiglit, or 

 nearly so, the anterior tibia? strongly and angularly dilated at apex, 

 especially in ^. Dime^isions 9-10 x 3 mm. 



Hah. — Dorrigo (H. Cox, W. Heron), Riclmiond River (British 

 Museum). 



Ten specimens under examination, of which two, in the consign- 

 ment from the British Museum, are intermediate between M. Syd- 

 neyanus Blkb., and M. colydioides Erichs. Possibly it has often 

 been overlooked by collectors in mistake for the common M. Syd- 

 neyanus Blkb., which I have from the same district. It can be 

 readily distinguished from Blackburn's species by (1) prothorax 

 with unproduced hind angles and truncate base, the distinctly sul- 

 cate sides, and the absence of the basal transverse depression; (2) 

 elytra of flatter form, more deeply striate and more convex inter- 

 vals; (3) much more distinctly punctate thorax and underside; (4) 

 the straight tibiae of (J, with their angulately dilated apex (the 

 same being strongly bent dow^nwards, and rounded at apex in M. 

 Sydney anus). From M. colydioides it can be distinguished by its 

 wider form, more nitid-black colour, prothorax with more produced 

 anterior angles wuth wider lateral border and sulcation within. 

 (N.B. — M. Sydney anus Blkb., ranges from Victoria to South 

 Queensland, while I have specimens of M. colydioides Erichs., from 

 Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales). Types in the 

 Author's Coll. 



Meneristes dentipes, n.sp. 



(J Elongate, subcylindric, polished nitid-black; antenna?, palpi, 

 and tarsi dark red; apex of front tibi« with large tuft of red 

 tomentum, tarsi scantily clad with a few reddish hairs. 



Head minutely punctured on forehead, more closely on epis- 

 toma, and finely rugose-punctate on the neck; epistoma truncate 

 in front, with a deep, straight sulcus behind, arcuately continued in 

 front of canthus, with two straight longitudinal sulci produced 

 backward in front of the eyes; antennae short, scarcely reaching 

 beyond the front third of prothorax, considerably widened out- 



