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tubers on the disc, and an impressed line between them, thinly 

 covered with an ochraceous pile, from which crop up numerous 

 small glossy-black granules ; scutellum small, rounded behind ; 

 elytra with a scanty greyish pile, slightly spotted with ochraceous, 

 round the scutellum and at the side large patches of whitish, the 

 base with several glossy-black granules, three or four slightly 

 elevated lines extending to near the apex ; body beneath dull 

 chesnut-red, and thinly pubescent ; antennae and legs pitchy, with 

 a few spots of white hairs ; the femora with long white hairs. 

 Length 6 — 7 lines. 



Menyllus. 



Caput antice subquadratum, tuberibus antenniferis basi vix 

 approximatis. Oculi fere divisi. Antennce corpore paulo 

 longiores, ciliatse ; scapo pyriformi, articulo quarto tertio 

 longiore, cseteris brevioribus, ultimo apice curvato. Pro- 

 thorax siibquadratus, irregularis. Elytra basi cristata, pos- 

 tice angustiora, apice emarginata. Pedes modice elongati, 

 antici robustiores, postici tenuiores. Coxce anticse maribus 

 spinosae. Mesostermim antice dentatum. 

 The form of the scape, in conjunction with the irregular pro- 

 thorax and spined anterior coxae of the male, will technically 

 distinguish this genus. The table {ante, p. 58) will show how it 

 differs from Escharodes, jElara and Exarrhenus, to any one of 

 which it might be referred except for certain characters, to which 

 it is necessary to adhere if we would differentiate these genera 

 satisfactorily. In habit Menyllus most closely resembles the 

 Australian genus Platyomopsis, which, however, i7iter alia, has the 

 antennae of Symphyletes. 



Menyllus maculicornis. (PI. V. fig. 6.) 



M . rufo-piceus, pube albescente tectus ; antennis pedibusque 

 albo-maculatis. 



Hab. — Aru. 



Covered with a thin whitish pile on a reddish-pitchy derm ; head 

 pitchy, with a few sparse hairs, sparingly pimctured in front, 

 median line slightly impressed ; lip and epistome very short, pale 

 ferruginous ; mandibles black ; prothorax nearly quadrate, the 

 sides irregular, two tubercles on the disc on each side, an oblong 

 naked spot posteriorly between them ; scutellimi rather narrow, 

 rounded behind ; elytra irregularly punctured, the base with 

 a narrow longitudinal crest^ crowned with erect hairs, the sides 



