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margin of the segment), in its first ventral suture not being en- 
feebled in the middle, and in the elytral epipleure being 
continued back (gradually narrowing) very much nearer to the 
apex. 
M. pygmeus, sp. nov. Ovalis, paullo elongatus ; sat convexus ; 
sparsim fulvo-pubescens; supra piceo-niger, prothoracis 
lateribus et in elytris vittis dorsalibus singulis (his ante 
apicem introrsum flexis et suturam attingentibus) rufescenti- 
bus, corpore subtus rufescenti, antennis pedibusque testaceo- 
rufis ; capite prothoraceque sparsim subtilius punctulatis ; 
hoc quam longiori fere duplo (postice quam antice haud 
multo) latiori, a basi antrorsum angustato, lateribus vix 
arcuatis, angulis anticis leviter productis subacutis posticis 
obtusis; elytris confuse dupliciter (subtiliter et magis 
fortiter) minus crebre punctulatis ; segmento ventrali basali 
in medio sparsim subtiliter, ceteris magis fortiter sat crebre, 
punctulatis. Long., 1 1.; lat,, 21. 
Nearly allied to M. stragulatus, Er., but very much smaller, 
and with the lateral portions of the elytra entirely blackish, the 
breast not black, the head less finely punctulate, &c. 
N.S. Wales and Queensland ; taken by Mr. Koebele. 
