64 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's Revision of the 



Metriorrhynchus miniatus, Macl. (CladopJiorus), I.e., 

 p. 235. 



The female differs from the male (the only sex described 

 by Macleay) in having the antennae strongly serrated, 

 instead of branched. In both sexes the rostrum is so 

 short as to be practically absent and the scutellum is of 

 the same colour as the prothorax and elytra. 



Jlab. Queensland : Barron River, Kuranda. 



Metriorrhynchus elongatus, Mad, /, c, p. 229. 



In this species the elytral punctures are much closer 

 together than usual, althougrh the lonwitudinal costae 

 separating the rows are of normal distance apart. 



Rah. Queensland : Barron River. 



Metriorrhynchus longicornis, Macl. {Xylobanus), I. c, 

 p. 232. 



Two specimens from the Macleay Museum belong to 

 this species, but differ from the types in having the 

 antennae shorter and scutellum entirely dark. They are 

 however, females, the types probably being males. 



Hah. Queensland : Russell River, Cairns. 



Metriorrhynchus abdominalis, Wat. (Forrostoma), 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 75, PI. I, figs. 19-22; 

 111. Typ. Col, p. 44, PI. XI, fig. 10. 



There are three female specimens before me * which 

 with some hesitation I refer to this species. In all of 

 them the rostrum is diluted in places with red ; two of 

 them have a small medio-basal black spot on the pro- 

 thorax,f and the scutellum black (not mentioned by 

 Waterhouse but black in the figure) ; the other specimen 

 has the prothorax and scutellum both entirely pallid. In 

 all three the middle part of the abdomen is dark, but the 

 dark portion is variable in extent and nowhere encroaches 

 on the sides or apex. 



Bah. Queensland : Brisbane, Mackay. Victoria : 

 Wodouga. 



* From Brisbane and Bowen ; the type was from " East 

 Australia." 



f At the extreme base only instead of as figured. 



