BY H. J. CARTER. 



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A provoking'ly closely allied species, of which both sexes, from 

 Dorrig'o and Acacia Creek, and Tambourine iSIountain, is without 

 the emargination on the hind tibiae of the $; the only other dif- 

 ferences to be noted are (1) larger seriate punctures of elytra; (2) 

 sides of prothorax less arcuately widened but more sinuate behind; 



(3) posterior angles of prothorax directed a little outwards; and 



(4) tibiae less curved and enlarged at apex in ^. 



Meneristes latior, n.sp. 



(J. Widely ovate, polished ebony-black; antennse, palpi, and 

 tarsi castaneous, front tibiae with a fringe of red tomentum at 

 apex. 



Head: labrum emarginate and coarsely punctate, 

 forehead coarsely, epistoma densely and more finely 

 punctate, the latter straight in front, rectangular 

 at sides, meeting the canthus at a wide angle, 

 limited behind by a defined semicircular sulcus; 

 antennae extending to two-thirds of prothorax, con- 

 siderably widened at apex, joint 3 as long as 1-2 

 combined, 8-10 transversely oval, 11th nearly 

 twice as long as 10, ovate. Prothorax 5*5 x 7 mm., 

 widest in front of middle, much less narrowed in 

 front than in 31. laticoUis Pasc, or M. tibialis, and 

 nearly as convex as in 31. dentipes; apex bisinuate, 

 middle portion advanced, anterior angles widely 

 rounded but advanced, sides moderately arcuate? 

 sinuate behind, posterior angles acutely produced 

 backwards and a little outwards, base strongly 

 bisinuate, extreme border narrow on sides, thick- 

 ened towards and at the posterior angles, very narrow but unin- 

 terrupted at apex, obsolete at base, sides with a wider marginal 

 channel than usual, less widened in front than in 31. tibialis, 

 but more marked than in 31. laticoUis Pasc, disc microscopically 

 punctate, highly polished, with two deep foveato excavations at 

 base near angles, and only the faintest suspicion in one example 

 of a medial depression. Scutellum widely triangular. Elytra 

 very little wider than prothorax at base, ovate, twice and one- 

 third as long, shoulders rather widely rounded but prominent; 



Fig.6. 

 M. latior. 



