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runs from the margin inward and scarcely forward to the suture. 
There is a well-defined gibbosity on each elytron (near the 
scutellum) on and around which the puncturation is very sparse ; 
the front part of the lateral half of the elytra is very coarsely 
and not very sparsely punctured, the puncturation becoming 
closer and less coarse toward the suture and becoming obsolete 
in about the apical two-fifths of the elytra. The legs are entirely 
red. 
Victoria ; near Berwick ; taken by Mr. French, and also sent 
to me by Mr. Sloane. 
PHYTOPHAGA. 
MEGAMERUS. 
M. mandibularis, sp. nov. Mas. Sat elongatus; supra nitidus, 
subtus cum pedibus tenue pubescens; brunneus, mandibulis 
atris valde compresso-dilatatis et contortis; capite crebre 
ruguloso; prothorace leviter sparsius nec subtiliter punc- 
tulato; elytris inequaliter punctulato-rugulosis et fortiter 
transversim rugatis; segmento ventrali apicali fovea pro- 
funda impresso. Long., 9 1.; lat., 321. 
A considerably more elongate, less massive, species than 
M. Kingi, Macl., and of different colour, being of a full brown 
tone. The mandibles (perhaps of the male only) are very 
peculiar, being enormously compressed, dilated, and bent in their 
apical half; it is difficult to imagine how they can be serviceable. 
The antenne scarcely differ from those of IW. Kingi of the same 
sex. Compared with JM. King: the head is rugulose and very 
much more closely sculptured ; the prothorax is narrower, much 
more distinctly punctured, and with its hind angles not at all 
prominent laterally; the elytra are much more strongly and 
unevenly sculptured, and are transversely wrinkled; the im- 
pression on the apical ventral segment is very much deeper. 
N. W. Australia; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 
HISPID AE. 
EURISPA. 
£. nigripes, sp. nov. Sat angusta; eneo-nigra, prothorace rufo- 
testaceo linea mediana rufa notato ad latera sat late niveo- 
marginato, elytris pallide luteis (horum apice summo nigro) 
margine externo anguste albido; antennis sat brevibus, 
articulis 2 et 3 sat elongatis, 4-6 brevioribus nec transversis 
cylindricis, 7-10 transversis, 11 acuminato; prothorace quam 
transbasin latiori parum longiori, antice angustato, minus 
crasse vix rugulose punctulato; elytris apicem versus 
acuminatis breviter spiniformibus, striatis, striis foveis sat 
