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■elytra by the remarkable form of its prosteriium, which is trans- 

 versely gibbous on a space well separated from the front ; so 

 that from a certain point of view there appears to be a kind of 

 wheal running across the prosternum, distinctly separated from 

 the front margin of the prosternum, and having its front straight 

 and equally well-detined across the whole of the non-pilose part 

 of the segment. The elytral cost?e are more sharply defined than 

 in any other Melohasis known to me {e.g., the second being as 

 strong as in Saundersi, Mast, {costata, Saund.) and the fifth 

 (which is obsolete in Saundersi, scarcely marked in oupreo-vittata, 

 Saund.) being quite well defined. The middle part of the basal 

 ventral segment is very much more closely punctulate than in 

 either of the species just named. The sides of the prothorax 

 are as straight as in Saundersi but the segment is not (as it is in 

 that species) narrowed towards the front. 

 Australia. Sent to me by Mr. French. 



EUCNEMID.E. 



DYSCHARACHTHIS. 



D. bi^evipennis, Blackb. In describing this species (Tr. Roy. 

 Soc, Vict., 1899, pp. 217, tfec.) I omitted to say that it is found 

 n South Australia (Basin of Lake 'Eyre). 



CHRYSOMELID.E. 



PAROPSIS. 

 In Proc. LS., N.S.W., 1899, p. 520) I expressed the opinion 

 that P. splendens, W. S. Macleay, is not a Paropsis but should 

 be referred to either Cyclomela or Augomela. I have since been 

 informed by Mr. Masters that he has succeeded in finding the 

 type specimen and that it is an Augomela. 



