100 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



green and very nitid. The head and under surface are of a 

 glossy black, the antennae, the parts of the mouth and the legs are 

 of a pitchy brown. There are a few impressions on the posterior 

 part of the lateral margins of the elytra. 



86. — Meonis ater, Casteln. Not. Aust. Col. 1867, 

 page 70. 



87. — Meonis ovicollis. n. sp. 



Length 3| lines. 

 This insect differs from M. ater, and niger, the two species 

 on which Count Castelnau founded the genus, in beiug much 

 smaller, in having the mandibles less exserted, and in having the 

 thorax globular and rounded, and in no way cordiform or pro- 

 longed at the base. It is of a glossy black with the elytra 

 strongly striated in the middle. 



88. — Leirodira Latreillii, Casteln. Not. Aust. Gal. 

 1867, page 72. 



89. — Phorticosomus rugiceps. n. sp. 



Length 5 lines. 

 Dark brown with the antennse and legs of a pitchy red. The 

 head is broad, and much corrugated and wrinkled, the thorax is 

 uneven on the surface, and the elytra are striated with the inter- 

 stices convex. In all these points it differs from P. Felix the 

 type of the genus, which has the head and thorax smooth, and 

 the spaces between the striee of the elytra rather flat. 



90. — Lecanomerus ruficeps. n. sp. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head red, smooth, and deeply impressed on each side, near 



the eyes and rather in front of them. Thorax black — with the 



margin and base slightly reddish, — scarcely broader than the 



length, rounded at the sides anteriorly, not much narrowed 



