98 H. I. Carter; 



angles obtuse, sides well rounded, without any medial line or foveae. 

 Scutellum widely triangular. Elytra wider than prothorax at base, 

 subparallel and subcylindric on basal two-thirds; punctate striate 

 with about ten rows, besides a short scutellary row of rather large, 

 deep, rectangular punctures, separated by subcancellate ridges, the 

 two lateral rows less distinct and not impressed in striae; intervals 

 convex, with a single row of punctifonn impressions on each. 

 Presternum with very coarse punctures, rest of undersurface rather 

 strongly and sparsely punctate, anal forceps strongly protruding 

 (evident from above), reddish in colour. Legs long, front and middle 

 femora angulately swollen and tomentose within, front tibiae with 

 large triangular tooth on the inside at the middle, hind tibiae flat- 

 tened on the inside and very sinuous, posterior tarsi with basal 

 joint as long as the rest combined. Tarsi bilamellate on the four 

 anterior feet, unilamellate on the posterior. 



Dimensions. — 13.5 x 4 mm. 



Habitat. — Cue, West Australia (H. W. Brown), Kalgoorlie (F. H. 

 Duboulay). 



Two male specimens in my coll. might possibly be the male of .1/. 

 incognita, Blackb., but the words, " prothorace obsolete, crebre et 

 subtilius punctatis," and of the elytra " puncturis in striis " (his 

 leviter impressis), " interstitiis subplanis," are inconsistent with 

 this view 7 . The strong tibial and femoral characters (and certainly 

 the anal forceps) are probably sexual. Type in the author's coll. 



Metistete then inns. n. sp. 



$ ovate, ? obovate, very nitid ebony black, glabrous, palpi 

 and antennae piceous red. Head, with fine, shallow punctures on 

 epistoma and neck, generally smooth between eyes (in one ex.. also 

 punctate there), labrum showing yellow membrane at base and red 

 cilia at apex, arcuate clypeal suture well marked ; eyes large, equally 

 distant in both sexes (about half diameter of one eye), antennae of 

 moderate length, joint 1 very tumid, 3 longer than four. 4-11 of 

 nearly equal length, 9-11 attenuated. Prothorax convex, and 

 strongly transverse (about 2 x 3 mm.), apex and base of about 

 equal width, slightly arcuate at apex, front angles wide, dehVxod. 

 and a little advanced, sides widely rounded, widest at middle. 

 slightly sinuate before the subrectangular (subacute as seen from 

 above), posterior angles, base bisinuate, with rather thick margin, 

 lateral margins not evident from above, apical margin very fine, 

 disc very convex, quite smooth and mirror-like, a shallow basal 



