Tenebrionidsejfrowi Australia and Tasmania* 151 



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 ( <S ); tibiis anticis in mare longioribus, arcuatis, 

 apice penicillatis. 



Hah. u Tasmania to Queensland." 



Black, shining ; head glossy, very minutely punctured ; 

 clypeal suture marked by a smooth arched line only ; two small 

 impressed curved lines between the eyes ; prothorax longer in 

 proportion to the width, very smooth, anterior angles rounded, 

 the posterior narrowly produced in the male ; scutellum tri- 

 angular ; elytra narrower anteriorly and not much broader than 

 the prothorax at the base, the greatest width a little distance 

 from the apex in the male, the base broader in the female, 

 punctate-striate as in the last ; body beneath and legs pitchy ; 

 anterior tibia? in the males much longer than the rest, strongly 

 arched, and having a tuft of golden hairs at the apex ; in the 

 females shorter, less arched, and without the tuft at the apex. 

 Length 6| lines. 



Ephidonius. 

 Subfamily Tenebrionin.e. 



Caput exsertum, rhomboideum, pone ocnlos elongatum. 

 Tibue fortiter calcarata? ; tarsi subtus subnudi. 



Head exserted, rhomboidal, broad in front, gradually nar- 

 rowed behind the eyes ; clypeus widely emarginate at the apex, 

 its suture nearly straight, except at the sides. Eyes small, 

 rather narrow, transverse. Antenna? slender ; third joint longest ; 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth shorter, obconic, nearly equal in length; 

 seventh to tenth more or less obovate ; the last ovate, pointed, 

 scarcely longer than the tenth. Mentum trapezoidal, broadest 

 and truncate anteriorly. Labium corneous in the middle, with 

 two rounded membranous lobes at the sides ; its palpi elongate, 

 a little thicker outwards. Maxillae 'with two short lobes, the 



