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dilatato—posticorum articulo basali quam 2" vix longiori ; 
unguiculi appendiculati. 
The minute insect for which I propose this name has much the 
appearance of a //alticid, but as its hind femora are not at all 
more dilated than than those of the other pairs of legs it must be 
placed among the Galerucides. It does not satisfactorily fall 
into any of Dr. Chapuis’ ‘‘Groupes” of that sub-family, but its 
non-contiguous closed front cox together with its normal meta- 
sternum seem to associate it with the Antiphites from which 
however the presence of a small mucro at the extremity of the 
hind tibiz (I cannot detect any mucro on the other tibiw) seems 
to separate it. On the whole it has something of the facies of 
Solenia in miniature and therefore I think will not be far out of 
place if treated as an aberrant member of the Antiphites, but it 
is certainly a very puzzling form. 
M. paradoxa, sp. nov. Oblongo-ovalis; sat nitida; setis gracili- 
bus albis erectis sparsim vestita; brunneo-testacea vel 
brunnea, antennis apicem versus et abdomine magis obscuris ; 
capite vix perspicue, prothorace sparsim fortius, punctulatis ; 
elytris vix Stay striis sat fortiter nec crebre punctulatis. 
Longs, 2+ 1.; en j— 5 1. 
One of my Re ite is smaller and considerably darker in color 
than the others, with antenne a little longer (about as long as 
three-quarters of the body). I take its differences to be sexual, 
but it may possibly represent a distinct species. 
S. Australia; Eyre’s Peninsula. 
CANDEZEA. 
C. sculpta, Blackb. When I described this species (P. L. 8., 
N.S.W. 1890, p. 363) I mentioned its very close alliance with 
C. bimaculata, Jac. and stated that I should have hesitated 
to consider it distinct except on the ground that bimaculata was 
said to have elytra scarcely visibly punctured. J have since 
obtained a specimen from New Guinea (the habitat of C. 
bumaculata) evidently conspecific with my C. seulpta and there- 
fore—although I certainly cannot regard the elytra as “ scarcely 
visibly punctured, ”T think there cannot be much doubt that 
the two names apply to the same insect and that scwlpta must be 
treated as a synonym of bimacwlata. 
MENIPPUS 
Through the liberality of Mr. Vater T have recently acquired 
an authentic specimen of VW. cynicus, Clk. (the typical species 
of this genus). It seems to have been an oversight that M. 
Lacordaire placed it in the Groupe Galerucites as its metasternum 
is strongly produced between the middle coxze—a character that 
