BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 411 



ovate. Prothorax scarcely longer than wide; with dense, round, 

 deep, clearly-cut, non-confluent large punctures; median carina 

 narrow and waved by punctures. Elytra elongate-cordate, not 

 much wider than prothorax and almost thrice as long; with 

 series of large suboblong punctures, each of which is separated 

 by a feeble ridge, both ridges and punctures partially concealed; 

 interstices gently convex and wider than punctures throughout. 

 Under sjt^yaoe densely and moderately strongly punctate through- 

 out. Metasternum longer than the following segment. Abdo- 

 minal sutures straight. Femora moderately stout but sublinear, 

 rather acutely dentate, posterior not extending to apex of abdo- 

 men. Length 12, rostrum 3 J; width 5; variation in length 

 9-13 mm. 



9. Differs in having the rostrum slightly longer, straighter and 

 narrower (except at base), shining and (except at basal fourth) 

 with punctures of only moderate size and the ridges absent; the 

 scape is inserted just perceptibly nearer apex than base of 

 rostrum. 



Hab. — Australia(Herr J. Faust); N.S.W.: Orange( Mr. Horace 

 W. Brown), Forest Reefs (Lea); Tasmania (Mr. A. Simson). 



The clothing of the prothorax is rather sparse, except at the 

 apex, and usually forms three feeble pale lines; usually on the 

 elytra the (otherwise ver}^ indistinct) preapical callus is supplied 

 with a small spot of pale (almost white) scales; the patches of 

 pale scales elsewhere seldom cover more than one puncture. On 

 two specimens, however, the pale scales clothe the greater part 

 of the derm, the sooty ones being distributed in small spots and 

 blotches. 



At one time I thought this species was possibly Boheman's 

 Cryj)t07'hynchus moestus, but that species is described as having 

 the posterior femora obtusely dentate (^nd by implication the 

 others edentate) and the scutellum clothed. In the (eleven) 

 specimens under observation the scutellum is perfectly glabrous. 



Mecistocerus vulneratus, n.sp. 

 ^. Blackish-brown, elytra paler, antennae of a rather bright 

 red. Moderately densely clothed with rather large pale (often 



