96 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to 



figure of the latter in the ' Voyage de la Coquille,' Entom. 

 pi. 6. fig. 7. 



MCECHIUS. 



Caput hemisphaoricum ; rostrum tenue, arcuatum ; scrobes ante- 

 medianae, infra rostrum currentes. Scapus oculum attingens ; 

 funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo primo crassiore ; clava adnata, 

 ovata, Oculi rotundati, laterales, grosso graniilati. Prothora.v 

 breviter subconicus, apicc productus, lobis ocularibus distinctis. 

 Elytra cordata, prothorace multo latiora. Femora valida, lon- 

 giuscula, infra dentata ; tihice breves, flexuosa?, sulcata^ ; tarsi 

 breviusculi. Rima peetoralis usque ad marginem posteriorem 

 metasterni extensa. Abdomen scgmentis duobus basalibus am- 

 pliatis ; sutura prima distincta. 



The only exponent of this genus has much the habit of 

 Melanterius j)orcatus^ Er. ; but, the metasternum entering 

 into the formation of the pectoral canal, the genus must be re- 

 ferred to the neighbourhood oi Mecistocerus and ^demonus'^ ^ 

 although differing from both in the characters of the antennae, 

 legs, sculpture, and in the pectoral canal passing behind the in- 

 termediate coxw. 



Mcecliius anaglyptus. 



M. breviter ovatus, convexus, nitide niger ; capite crebre punctato ; 

 rostro prothoraci longitudine aequali, in medio fere obsolete cari- 

 nato ; antennis fulvo-testaceis ; funiculo articulo secundo primo 

 longiore ; reliquis brevibus, gradatim magis transversis ; protho- 

 race antice paulo tubulato, utrinque rotundato, basi bisinuato, 

 coufertim punctato, punctis nonnullis coufluentibus, totis in fundo 

 squamulam minutam albam gercntibus ; scutello angusto ; clytris 

 profunde late sulcatis, sulcis fortiter foveatis, interstitiis carinatis 

 et utrinque uniseriatim punctulatis ; abdomine segmentis duobus 

 basalibus, femoribusque grosse punctatis, punctis unisquamigeris ; 

 tibiis basi sat valde arcuatis, sulcis uniseriatim albo-setosis ; tarsis 

 extus unguiculisque rufescentibus. Long. 2| lin. 



Hah. Wide Bay. 



Ageioch^ta. 



Caput parum exsertum ; rostrum validum, ajquilatum, arcuatum ; 

 scrobes prasraediana), obliquse, infra rostrum cxeuntes. Scaj^us 

 oculum baud attingens ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articiilis tribus 

 ultimis turbinatis ; clava conica, distincta. Oculi sat raagni, 

 ovati, laterales. Protlio7-ax transversus, basi rotundatus, lobis 

 ocularibus nullis. Elytra ampla, prothorace multo latiora. Pedes 



* ^iidemonus, Schonherr, not Lacordaire ; the former autlior expressly 

 states jE. eminentepunctatus to be the type ; Lacordaire describes the 

 genus from j^. Erichsoni : the two species are not congeneric, as Lacor- 

 daire himself states ; the latter, tlierefore, should receive a new generic 

 name. 



