390 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



METRIORRHYNCHUS BASALIS sp. nov. 

 ^ Black, basal portion of elytra brick-red. 



Head with muzzle very short. Antennae moderately long, third to tenth 

 joints moderately wide and somewhat serrated. Prothorax small, conspicuously 

 seven-areolate, sides strongly narrowed to middle ; front angles rounded off, hind 

 ones produced and acute. Elytra thin, slightly dilated posteriorly; with single 

 rows of large quadrangular punctures, doubled on basal fourth or fifth. Length 

 ((?9)> 5-5-7-5 mm. 



2 Differs in having the antennae somewhat shorter, wider, and less 

 serrated, and abdomen wider, with the subapical segment not notched. 



Hah. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (H. J. Carter and H. Hacker); 

 Cairns (E. Allen) ; Atherton and Cedar Creek (Dr. E. Mjoberg).— Type, /. 12267 

 in South Australian Museum ; cotype, C/2278 in Queensland Museum. 



The pale portion of the elytra varies (independently of sex) from rather 

 less than one-third to slightly more than half, on seven specimens being about 

 one-third, and on another seven about half. In my table^ would be placed with 

 M. meyricki (from West Australia), which has the black of the elytra continued 

 along the suture to the base, instead of abruptly terminated some distan(?e 

 before it. In general appearance it is like M. ramosus (which has the antennse 

 fiabellate in the male), M. simplicicornis, M. dichrous, and M. cUentulus (which 

 have less than seven prothoracic areolets), and M. hatesi, 31. togatus, and M. 

 hrkhanensis (which have the elytral punctures in double series). 



METRIORRHYNCHUS MINOR sp.nov. 



$ Black, elytra brick-red. 



Head with muzzle produced to form a short rostrum. Antennas short 

 and very feebly serrated, third joint almost twice as long as wide, the others 

 shorter, but none transverse. Prothorax slightly longer than apical width, con- 

 spicuously seven-areolate, apex slightly produced in middle, sides rather strongly 

 elevated near base. Elytra rather narrow; with single rows of quadrangular 

 punctures, except on basal fourth, where they are doubled, and with rather 

 strongly elevated alternate interstices. Hind femora stouter than usual; hind 

 tihim wide, the apex notched. Length ( c? 2 ) , 4-6-5 mm. 



9 Differs in having the antennae somewhat shorter and wider, hind legs 

 similar to the middle ones, and abdomen not notched. 



Hah. — Queensland: Brisbane in December (H. Hacker). New South 

 Wales: Inverell (H. J. Carter from J. Stevens).— Type, 1.11812 in South 

 Australian Museum; cotype, C/2279 in Queensland Museum. 



The part of the head in advance of the eyes is slightly wider than long; 

 the median areolet of the prothorax is produced so that the carina connecting 



1 Lea, Trans. Ent, Soc. Lond., 1909, p. 51. 



