150 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and Species of 



Meneristes. 

 Subfamily Tenebrionifje. 

 Tibice calcaratse ; femora incrassata. 



This genus differs only in the above characters from Mene- 

 philus, Muls. The type I have received from Dr. Howitt, 

 under the name of " Baryscelis laticollis, Boisd." That genus 

 was never published ; but, according to a note of M. Lacor- 

 daire's, it belongs to the Ccelometopinas, and therefore cannot 

 be this. In the British Museum the same species is labelled 

 " Tenebrio australis, M'L. (Boisd.)." The descriptions of 

 Dr. Boisduval in the ' Voyage de l'Astrolabe ' are very short, 

 varying from five Latin words to five-and-twenty, the latter 

 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 by a sort of tradition that we are able 

 to accept at all many of Dr. Boisduval's names*. The types, 

 many of them at least, seem to have been lost. I 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. PL XI. fig. 2. 



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

 gulis anticis et posticis productis ; tibia? antica? valde arcuata?. 



Hob. 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 strise very narrow ; body beneath and 

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

 mediate, strongly curved. Length 9 lines. 



Meneristes intermedins. 



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

 minus productis ; tibiis anticis ( $ ) vix arcuatis. 



Hab. Gawler. 



Black, shining; head opaque, finely punctured; clypeal 



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

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

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



