18 Mr. Edward Saunders on 



each elytron^ the suture also raised. Underside and 

 legs punctured, covered with white silvery pubescence. 



Length 5 lines; breadth If lines. 



Hab. Swan River. 



10. Melobasis nervosa, (PI. I. fig. 21). 



Bu'prestis nervosa, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. ii. 77, pi. vi. 



fig. 8 ; (Hope, Bupr. p. 9) ; L. & G. i. Bnp. 



121, pi. xxxi. fig. 168. 



Hab. New Holland. 



Gen. MERIMNA, (H. Deyi\ MS.). 



(Belionota, pars, Hope.) 



1. Meeimna atrata, (PI. IV. fig. 13). 



Belionota ? atrata, (Hope, Bupr. p. 10). 



Ohrysohothris atrata, L. & G. ii. Clirysoh. 58, pi. x. fig. 79. 



" Totum corpus supra atrum, thorace subruguloso, elytris 

 quatuor lineis elevatis, quinto basali ante medium 

 disci sutura conjuncto. Corpore infra nigro-violaceo 

 punctato, femoribus nigro-eeneis." (Hope) . 



The entire insect dull black. 



Head punctured, with a slightly raised smooth dorsal 

 line. Thorax half as broad again as long ; anterior mar- 

 gin slightly produced in the centre and at the angles, 

 finely ciliate, three-fifths the length of the base ; sides 

 slightly rounded in front, then nearly straight to the pos- 

 terior angles ; base with a shallow median lobe ; disk 

 punctured and transversely ridged, with a faint dorsal 

 line, impressed at the base, but smooth and slightly 

 raised in front, the puncturation rather denser on the 

 sides. Elytra three-quarters as long again as wide ; sides 

 sinuate above the middle ; apex of each with a slight point ; 

 surface punctured and irregularly rugose ; each elytron 

 with four smooth raised lines of which the lateral one 

 alone reaches the posterior margin. Underside, legs, and 

 antennae, punctured, with a few short hairs ; the three 

 first segments of the abdomen with a fovea on each side. 



Length 11 lines ; breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. Australia. 



