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posterior femora pedunculate, the clavate portion swelling 

 out into a large oval hispid knob, and the inner spur of 

 their tibiae strongly produced. But in M. flavitarsis ( ? ) 

 the spur is nearly as much developed, while the femora, 

 although strongly clavate, are not pedunculate. Another 

 point worth noticing is that the external maxillary lobe 

 is exserted, as in many of the Callichromince, but in the 

 female of M. suhulata, which I have dissected, it is 

 apparently of the normal character ; it may be, however, 

 that there is a voluntary power of lengthening or short- 

 ening it. The large triangular impression formed 

 directly above the clypeus, the apex extending upwards 

 between the eyes, is often accompanied by a j^-shaped 

 impression at the bottom of the cavity. The punctua- 

 tion is very similar among the species, fine, irregular, 

 and scattered on the head and prothorax, and coarser 

 and equally irregular on the elytra, these latter organs 

 having a sparse transverse pubescence. The species are 

 found flying slowly about newly fallen timber. They 

 have a geographical range extending from Northern 

 India {M. Indicus, Hope) to New Guinea {M. flavitarsis). 



§ Elytra subulate, entirely black. 



Merionoeda puella. 



Pascoe, lib. cit. p. 238. 



( cJ .) M. nigra, prothorace solo luteo, subcylindrico, 

 utrinque subtuberculato. 



Hab. — Macassar. 



Black; head coarsely and closely punctured; pro- 

 thorax reddish-yellow, subcylindrical, slightly tuberculate 

 at the sides ; scutellum triangular, its apex rounded ; 

 elytra rather closely punctured, opaque black ; body be- 

 neath yellowish, metasternum and abdomen black ; legs 

 brownish or black, the intermediate and posterior femora 

 testaceous at their base ; posterior tibiae with the inner 

 spur slender and strongly produced; antennae entirely 

 black. 



Length 3| lines. 



Merionoeda flavitarsis. 



((?.) M. nigra; capite, prothorace, tar sis anticis et 

 intermediis, antennisque articulo ultimo, flavis. 



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