226 Proceedings of the Royol Society of Victoria. 



Mountains of Tasnumia. 



Long. 3-U]. Lat. l-lfl. 



D. victoriejisis, sp. nov. Capite inter oculos fovea magna 

 rotundata leviter seil manifeste inipresso ; antennaruni articulis 

 9° obconico quam pra?cedentes 2 conjuncti subbreviori, 10" ovato 

 quam 9"^ vix breviori, 11° elongato-ovali ad apicem acuuiinato 

 quani 9"" manifeste longiori; corpore subtus minus crebre punctu- 

 lato ; cetera ut D. concolor. 



Long. 4i 1. Lat. U ]. 



The resemblance of this species to the preceding is so close 

 that the description of it (with the exceptions noted above) may- 

 be taken as the description of D. vidoriensis. On the under 

 surface the prosternum of D. coticolor is quite strongly and 

 decidedly closely punctulate, the metasternum and hind-coxal 

 laminae less strongly but extremely closely, the ventral segments 

 still more finely and closely. In vidoriensis the middle part 

 of the prosternum is sparingly and quite faintly punctured, the 

 metasternum hind-coxal laminae and ventral segments (especially 

 the former) notably less closely and a trifle more strongly than in 

 concolor. The difference of puncturation is most conspicuous on 

 the middle part of the prosternum, — which moreover is rather 

 strongly gibbous in victoriensis and very decidely less so in 

 cotico/or. 



Victoria (near the summit of Mount Baldy, 6000 feet above 

 sea-level). 



CURCULIONID^. 



Neomerimnetes (gen. nov. Otiorliynchidaruni). 

 Rostrum quam caput angustius et pauUo longius, subcylin- 

 dricum, ad apicem subtruncatuni, scrobibus lateralibus, rectis 

 brevibus ; antennse sat elongatie, sat graciles, scapo sat recto 

 prothoracem vix attingenti, funiculi articulis 2" 3" que inter se 

 jequalibus quam ceteri longioribus, clava sat elongata articulata ; 

 oculi subrotundati ; pi-othorax quam latior vix longior, ad latera 

 rotundatus, lobis ocularibus nuUis ; scutellum baud manifestum ; 

 elytra breviter ovalia, convexa, quam prothorax sat latiora; pedes 

 modici, femoribus leviter clavatis, tibiis anticis sat rectis, tarsis 

 sat brevibus (articulis 3° lato bilobo, 4" brevi), unguiculis 

 connatis ; segmentum ventrale 2"'" ab 1° sutura sat recta divisum, 

 quam l"'sat brevius, quam 3"" parum longius; corpus squamosum. 



