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uno postico, tertioque bipartite ad declivitatera sito), 

 plaga laterali fusca decoratis ; femoribus tibiisque fusco- 

 annulatis, his rectis, teretibus ; unguiculis testaceis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. — New Soutli Wales. 



Menios, n. g. 



A Chcetectetoro difFei't rostro recto, depresso"; prothorace 

 convexo, haud explanato ; femoribus infra dentatis ; tarsis 

 articulo quarto haud squamoso. 



The ocular lobes are much less developed in this genus 

 than in Chcetectetorus ; and the eyes are larger and less 

 widely apart in front. In one of my specimens, the facets 

 of the eyes are not so coarse as in the others, and in 

 another, there are some small white spots on the elytra. 



Menios internatus. 



M. oblongus, piceus, supra pedibusque dense nigres- 

 centi-squamosus ; rostro capite haud longiore, rufo-piceo, 

 dense griseo-squamoso ; antennis testaceis, clava breviter 

 ovata; prothorace transverse, antice valde constricto, 

 utrinque perparum rotundato, in medio obsolete longitu- 

 dinaliter elevate, tuberculis pai-vis sex munite — duobus 

 apicalibus, quatuor medianis transversim obsitis ; scutello 

 oblongo ; elytris prothorace sat latioribus, humeris callo- 

 sis, convexis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis paulo angustis, 

 convexis, alternis tuberculis nigris parvis dispersis, apice 

 rotundatis ; corpore infra femoribusque subtus dense 

 albo-squamosis ; tibiis valde compressis ; tarsis articulo 

 basali modice elongate, duobus sequentibus conjunctim 

 late triangularibus. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hah. — Sydney. 



Ttchreus, n. g. 



Rostrum tenue, elongatum. OcuU tenue granulati. 

 Elytra in medio elevato-gibbosa. Eima pectoralis ad 

 partem posticam coxarum intermediarum protensa. Cse- 

 tera ut in Chcetectetoro. 



