150 Mr. F. W Paseoc on new (ienera and Sj)ecies of 



Men ERISTIC. 

 Subfamily Tenejuhoninje. 

 Tihice calcaratae ; femora inci-assata. 



I'his o-oiius differs only in the above eliarnetera from Mme- 

 ■pltihiSj J\luls, The type 1 liave received from J)r. llowitt, 

 under the name of " Ban/ftceh's laticollisy Boisd." That genus 

 was never jniblishcd ; but; accordinc;; to a note of M. l^acor- 

 dairc's, it beUmgs to the (/(xd(mieto])iniv, and tlierefore cannot 

 be tliis. In the Britisli ]\luseum t!»e same species is h\belled 

 " Tenehrio austrah's^ M/L. (lioisd.)." The descrii)tions of 

 Dr. Boisduval in the ' Voyage de TAstrohibe ' are very sliort, 

 varying from iive Latin words to live-and-twenty, the hitter 

 exceptional ; .and these are followed by a strictly literal French 

 translation. With the vague ideas of genera common thirty 

 years ago, and even later, the generic name affords scarcely 

 any clue, and it is only hy a sort of tradition that we are able 

 to accept at all many of Dr. BoisduvaTs nanu's*. The ty}>es, 

 many of them at least, seem to have been lost. I retain the 

 name of " laticolUs,^'' as it is sutHcicntly distinctive, and, should 

 it hereafter be found to be the species so desigiuited by Dr. 

 Boisduval, there will be no alteration. 



Meneristes Jatu'oUis. PI. XL fig. 2. 



M. niger, nitidus ; sutura clypeali valde impressa ; prothoracis an- 

 gulis anticis et posticis productis ; tibiae anticse valde arcuatse. 



Hah. Victoria. 



Black, shining ; head glossy, finely and closely punctured ; 

 elypeal suture arched, strongly impressed; ])rothorax minutely 

 pmictured, anterior angles produced, subacuminate, ])osterior 

 terminating in a long acute angular process ; scutcllum curvi- 

 linearly triangular • elytra nearly parallel, coarsely jnmc- 

 tate-striate, })unctures slightly (juadrate, very close together, 

 intervals between the striic very narrow 5 body beneatii and 

 legs glossy black ; anterior tibiie equal in length to the inter- 

 mediate, strongly curved. Ijcngth 9 lines. 



Meneristes in termedius. 



M. nigcr, nitidus ; sutura cljiicali impressa ; prothoracis augidis 

 minus productis ; tibiis anticis ( 5 ) vix arcuatis. 



Ilab. Gawler. 



Black, shining ; head 0])aque, finely pmictured ; elypeal 



* Under the name oi' Mal/odoii aiidrn/i\i, Hoisil., for cxniiiplo, J\l. Laror- 

 clairo snys lie found "sevt'ral .species, beloiigiug to cliirereut peuern, in 

 collections." (Gen. viii. p. Ill, note.) 



