Australian Coleoptera. 537 



Merodontus, MacLeay, Tijats. Ent. Soc, N. S. ^Vales, 

 ii.f. 117. 

 This name having been already used in the Rhyncho- 

 phora, I propose to re-name it Platyphymatia* The 

 following will be a second species in the genus. 



-P. (Eneopicea, sp. nov. 



Elongata, a3neo-picea, subnitida. Capite crebre fortiter 

 punctato. Thorace convexo, antice emarginato, postice 

 rotundato ; lateribus subparallelis, le\dter constrictis ; dorso 

 sat parce obsolete punctato, antice carinulis duobus ap- 

 proximatis, postice tuberculis quatuor semicirculariter 

 positis. Eljtris thorace vix latioribus, depressis, basi 

 Ifevissime emarginatis, ad apicem sub-acuminatis, deflexis, 

 leviter striatis, sutura 15-tuberculata, interstitiis jjlanis, 

 impunctatis, 3, 5 et 7 singulis tuberculis duobus; lateribus 

 subparallelis, carinatis, carina vix ad aiDicem attingenti, 

 2)seudo-epipleuris latis, inflexis. Metasterno lato, fortiter 

 sat parce punctato. Tibiis anticis tridentatis. Pjgidio 

 4-tuberculato. 



Long. 4 lin. ; lat. 2 lin. 



The intermediate tibiae are gently curved, furnished 

 on the outer side with two semicircles of bristles. The 

 posterior tibite are curved, very slightly crenulate on their 

 edges, with two tubercles on the outer edge below the 

 middle. The basal joint of the hind tarsi is elongate, 

 about equal to the two following taken together ; the 2nd 

 to 4th become gradually shorter and more slender. Be- 

 sides the four tubercles on the posterior part of the thorax 

 mentioned above, there is a small tubercle just above each 

 posterior angle. 



Closely aUied to M. calcaratus, MacL., but (judgmg 

 from description) differs in being shining, in havuig the 

 elytra impunctate, and in having a roAv of distmct tuber- 

 cles on each side of the suture of the elytra, of which there 

 is no mention in Mr. MacLeay's description, &c. 



i/Q^»._Queensland. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



Temnoplectron IcBve, C. Waterh. 

 We have just received the male of this insect. It 

 differs fi-om the female in having the intermediate femora 



* Since the above was written I have learned from Mr. D Sharp that 

 another name, which has also been used, has been proposed foi this genus, 

 so that my name will reuiain. 



