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scutello abdominisque apice rufis, capite prothoraceque 

 obscurioribus, pedibus testaceis ; prothorace quam longiori 

 trans angulos posticos sat latiori, a basi antrorsum gradatim 

 nee fortiter angustato, longitudinaliter canaliculato, confertim 

 rugulose punctulato, angulis posticis haud divergentibus sat 

 elongatis fortiter bicarinatis ; elytris apice rotundatis, sat 

 fortiter punctulato-striatis, interstitiis planis leviter minus 

 distincte punctulatis ; corpore subtus subtiliter sat crebre 

 (prosterno in medio fortius subrugulose punctulato excepto, 

 — hoc ad latera sulcato) punctulato ; antennis (ferninse ?) 

 prothoracis basin haud plane attingentibus, articulo 3° quam 

 2 US fere duplo longiori ; tarsorum lamella sat angusta ; capite 

 postice in medio longitudinaliter sat fortiter carinato. 



[Long. 6^, lat. 2 lines (vix). 



I have only a single example of this species and am not quite 

 sure of its sex, but suspect it is a female. On a casual inspection 

 it looks much like a female of M. Australasice, Boisd., from which 

 however it differs totally by the narrowness of its tarsal lamellae 

 and the sides of the prosternum being sulcate as in M. Jekeli and 

 other species. It also differs from Australasice, (female) in being 

 of shorter build and comparatively wider in the middle, with the 

 elytra gently narrowing hindward almost from the base ; also the 

 pro thorax is more transverse (being by measurement decidedly 

 wider across the hind angles than it is long down the middle), its 

 hind angles are not divergent otherwise than as involved in their 

 evenly continuing the sides which diverge slightly hindward, and 

 its median channel is traceable quite to the front ; also the 

 prosternum is more closely and rugulosely punctured in the 

 middle, — otherwise the sculpture is not very different. 



In Dr. Candeze's tabulation (referred to above) this species 

 would fall beside M. fictus, on page 241 ; passing over differences 

 that might possibly be sexual, it seems to differ from M. fictus in 

 the apex of the elytra being quite devoid of emargination and in 

 their extreme base being marked with red. 



Victoria ; Alpine district. 



