392 Mr, G, C, Champion on the Tenebrionidee 
MENERISTES, 
Meneristes, Pascoe, Aun. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), i., 
p. 150 (1869). 
Asiris, Motschulsky, Bull, Mosc., xlv., 2, p. 24 (1872). 
Pascoe states that this genus only differs from Mene- 
philus in the following characters—‘“‘tibiz calcarate, 
femora incrassata.” He has overlooked the fact that the 
tibiz in his typical species, M. laticollis, are very dis- 
tinctly channelled on their outer edge; M. servulus, 
Pasc., has the tibize rounded on their outer edge, and it 
cannot be included in the same genus. 
Meneristes australis. 
abt io australis, Boisd., Voyage de l’ Astrolabe, Ent. 
, p. 204; Bless., Hore Ent. Ross. sy lj: Pv St 
ee istes laticollis, Pasc., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(8), avs p. loos tte fig. 2 (nec Boisd.). 
Asiris angulicollis, Motsch., Bull. Mosc., xlv., 2, p. 30. 
Hab. Tasmania—Hobart and Launceston. 
Under Hucalyptus bark, common (Walker). 
I am unable to follow Pascoe in regarding this species 
as the Baryscelis laticollis of Boisduval, though it may 
be the Tenebrio australis of that author. The Rev. T. 
Blackburn (Trans. R. Soc. 8. Austr., x., p. 282) unites 
Boisduval’s species under the one aa. Meneristes 
australis ; but to judge from the imperfect descriptions 
(Voy. de V Astrolabe, 11., pp. 2038, 254) they cannot 
possibly be synonymous. An insect sent me by Mr. 
Blackburn as the Tenebrio australis, Boisd., agrees 
with the type of M. intermedius, Pasc.; it differs from 
M. laticollis in its smaller size, and in having less acute 
hind angles to the prothorax. 
PROMETHIS. 
Promethis, Pascoe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), 11., 
p. 148 (1869). 
Mederis, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc., xlv., 2, p. 24 (1872). 
