6y a. M. lea. 671 



rostrum. Prothorax moderately transverse, sides moderately 

 rounded, base slightly wider than apex: punctures normally con- 

 cealed. Elytra distinctly wider than prothorax, parallel-sided 

 to beyond the middle; with rows of large, partially concealed 

 punctures, each containing a scale; interstices wider than striae, 

 their sculpture concealed. Second segment of abdomen slightly 

 longer than fifth. Length, 4 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria: Somerville ( A. M. Lea). 



Readily distinguished from all others of the genus by the 

 clothing, which consists of true scales, even on the undersurface 

 and legs The small sooty spots are more numerous on the elytra 

 than elsewhere. 



Meriphus laticroalbus, n.sp. 



Of a dingy castaneous; head, club, scutellum, parts of under- 

 surface and of legs somewhat darker; elytra with rather numer- 

 ous, feeble spots. Irregularly clothed with whitish scales, dense 

 on sides of prothorax and of mesosternum, and moderately dense 

 on apical half of elytra. 



Head elongate ; with dense, partially concealed punctures. 

 Rostrum long, almost straight; with dense punctures, becoming 

 linear in arrangement, and separated by feeble ridges behind 

 antennae. These inserted about one-third from apex of rostrum. 

 Prothorax small, base much wider than apex, slightly longer than 

 width of base; with dense punctures, in places concealed: with a 

 feeble median carina. Elytra much wider than prothorax and 

 almost thrice as long; w4th rows of rather large punctures, in 

 light strise; interstices with fine punctures, the odd ones (in- 

 cluding suture) with rows of setiferous granules. Undersurface 

 with dense more or less concealed punctures. Femora stout, 

 strongly and acutely dentate. Length, 3^-3| mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Launceston(A. M. Lea) — New South Wales: 

 Sydney(R. Helms). 



In general appearance, fairly close to M. grantdatus, but pro- 

 thorax with two longitudinal stripes instead of four, and elytra 

 somewhat narrower and otherwise difierent. 



