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SARROTRIUM. 



S. australe, sp. nov. Elongatum ; nigrum ; antennis squarais 

 griseo-ferrugineis vestitis, pedibus ferrugineis, elytris fasciis 

 2 rutis ornatis ; capite utrinque pone oculos spina armato ; 

 prothorace antrorsum angustato, angulis anticis lateraliter 

 subspinosis ; elytris profunde punctulato-striatis, longitu- 

 dinaliter 3-costatis, costis externis pone medium sinuatis. 

 Long., 2 1. ; lat., f 1. (vix). 



Several genera of Teriebrionidre (e.g., Elascus) have been de- 

 scribed, the remarkable similarity of which to Colydiid genera 

 has been remarked on. I at first supposed this present species 

 to pertain to one of them, but on careful examination I find that 

 it does not ; with the aid of a compound microscope I feel sure 

 that it is not heteromerous ; it can be so only if there is a very 

 minute basal joint of the anterior tarsi so imbedded in the coty- 

 loid cavity of the tibia as to be discoverable only by dissection, 

 which I have not been able to employ, having only a single 

 example. The fasciae on its elytra are of a bright red colour ; 

 one of them commences a little behind the shoulder on the margin 

 and runs obliquely to the suture a little in front of the middle, 

 the other being subapical and straight. The short lateral spine 

 into which the antennal orbit is drawn out behind the eye is a 

 very distinctive character. The head and prothorax are extremely 

 like those of Sarrotrium davicorne, and the antennji^ are almost 

 exactly like the antennae of that species, though a little less stout. 



It may be remarked that the specimen before me is in its 

 structural characters extremely like the figure of Latometus 

 ■puhescens, Er. (AYiegm. Arch., 1842, I., tab. 5, fig. 3); it is, how- 

 ever, evidently much narrower and more elongate, and moreover 

 the figure represents Latometus as having all the five joints of 

 the anterior four tarsi quite well defined. 



Victoria ; in the Alpine district. 



MERYX. 



J/, ((^qnalis, sp. nov. Elongata ; parallela ; supra a?qualis ; sub- 

 nitida ; subrcticulatim albido-pubescens ; capite prothora- 

 ceque confertim subtiliter punctulatis ; hoc postice minus 

 angustato, lateribus crenulatis ; elytris sat fortiter vix seria- 

 tim punctulatis, vix manifeste 3-costatis ; antennarum 

 articulis ultimis 2 quam 9"' nonnihil brevioribus ; palporum 

 maxillarum articulo ultimo apice oblique truncato. Long., 

 3|_4 1. ; lat., 1— If 1. 



The whitisli pubescence is very inconspicuous on the prothorax ; 

 on the elytra it is very distinct, but not very sharply limited ; it 

 forms a reticulated pattern somewhat like the reticulation formed 

 in the previously described species by costaj. Compared with 



