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to accept at all many of Dr. Boisdiival's iiames*. The types, 

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

 name of '' laticollis^^^ as it is sufficiently distinctive, and, should 

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

 Boisduval, there will be no alteration. 



Meneristes laticollis. PI. XI. fig. 2. 



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

 gulis anticis et posticis productis ; tibiae aiitica) valde arcuataj. 



Hah. Victoria. 



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

 clypeal suture arched, strongly impressed ; prothorax minutely 

 punctured, anterior angles produced, subacuminate, posterior 

 terminating in a long acute angular process ; scutellum curvi- 

 linearly triangular; elytra nearly parallel, coarsely punc- 

 tate-striate, punctures slightly quadrate, very close together, 

 intervals between the stria? very narrow ; body beneath and 

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

 mediate, strongly curved. Length 9 lines. 



Meneristes intermedius. 



M. niger, nitidus ; sutura clypeali impressa ; prothoracis angulis 

 minus productis ; tibiis anticis ( $ ) vix arcuatis. 



Hah. Gawler. 



Black, shining ; head opaque, finely punctured ; clypeal 

 suture arched, moderately impressed ; prothorax as in the last 

 species, but the angles, especially the posterior, less produced ; 

 scutellum triangular ; elytra broader in proportion, less glossy, 

 and less strongly punctured; body beneath black, shining; 

 legs glossy reddish pitchy ; anterior tibia? in the male strongly 

 arched ; shorter, and nearly straight, at least on the outer edge, 

 in the female ; the former only with the tarsi dilated. Length 

 8 lines. 



A stouter insect comparatively than the last, and differing 

 in the form of the anterior tibia?. In both species there is a 

 deep fovea on each side of the prothorax at the base. 



Meneristes servulus. 

 M. niger, nitidus ; sutura clypeali vix impressa ; prothoracis angulis 

 posticis productis {6)', tibiis anticis in mare longioribus, arcuatis, 

 apice penicillatis. 

 Hab. '■'' Tasmania to Queensland." 



* Under the name of Mallodon australis, Boisd., for example, M. Lacor- 

 daire says he found " several species, belonging to different genera, in 

 collections." f'Gen. viii. p. Ill, note.) 



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