BY A. M. LEA. 683 



punctures. Undersurface with small punctures. Leys moder- 

 ately stout; femora edentate. Length, If mm. 



ZTaft. — Queensland : Kuranda (G. E. Bryant). 



Much smaller than the other species here referred to Eudela. 

 The pygidium, although not very large, is quite distinct, and is 

 evidently not accidentally exposed, as the elytra are separately 

 rounded. The sides of the pro thorax of the type are not ridged 

 at the base; but this may be a sexual character. The series of 

 punctures on the elytra are distinct but apparently not in striae. 

 In general appearance, the species resembles a rather wide Apion. 



Subfamily Prionomerides. 



This subfamily has not been previously recorded as Australian. 

 Two characters in combination render it easy of recognition : the 

 femora (at any rate the front pair) strongly dentate with the 

 teeth serrated, and the claws appendiculate. The species now 

 referred to the subfamily has a singular resemblance to species of 

 the genus Meriphus. 



Meripherinus, n g. 



Head rather small. Eyes moderately large, widely separated, 

 moderately faceted, oblong-elliptic. Rostrum long and thin. 

 A-ntennse thin; funicle seven-jointed; club rather loosely jointed. 

 Prothorax small, without ocular lobes. Scutellum distinct. 

 Mytra large, much wider than prothorax. Four basal segments 

 of abdomen drawn backwards at sides. Legs long; femora stout, 

 each with a large triangular tooth; tibiae thin; claws strongly 

 appendiculate. 



In Pascoe's Table of the Prionomerides* this genus would be 

 associated with Themeropsis, from the description of which it 

 differs in the eyes being rather widely separated, front tibiae not 

 strongly arcuate; second segment of abdomen considerably longer 

 than the third or fourth, etc. 



Meripherinus pimbriatus, n.sp. (Plate Ixxvi., fig.6). 

 Reddish-flavous, legs paler; tip of rostrum, club, serrations of 

 femoral teeth, and claws black. Moderately clothed with de 



* Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., xii., p.33. 



