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Rostrum non-carinate. First joint of funicle slightly 

 longer than second and third combined. Prothorax scarcely 

 granulated, with fairly large, more or less concealed punc- 

 tures. Elytra ovate, with regular rows of large, partially- 

 concealed punctures ; interstices regularly rounded. Length, 

 3|-4J mm. 



Hab. — Victoria: Mounts Buffalo and Baldi ; New South 

 Wales: Mount Kosciusko (H. J. Carter). 



Readily distinguished from all species known to me by 

 its black and red antennae, black legs, and beautiful scales. 

 Mr. Carter informs me that on Mount Koscuisko it is found 

 at an elevation of 6,000 ft. on a large white daisy (Celmisia, 

 sp.). 



Merimnetes decipiens, n. sp. 



Black, appendages reddish. Densely clothed with greyish 

 scales, more or less densely-mottled or spotted with brown. 

 In addition with moderately long, recurved setae. 



Rostrum very indistinctly carinated, even on abrasion. 

 Antennae rather shorter and stouter than usual in the genus; 

 first joint of funicle somewhat shorter than second and third 

 combined. Prothorax about as long as wide in male, gently 

 transverse in female ; granulate-punctate, and with a feeble 

 median line; but derm almost entirely concealed. Elytra 

 ovate, with regular rows of large punctures, appearing small 

 and narrow through clothing ; interstices regularly rounded. 

 Length, 3-4 mm. 



Bah.— Tasmania (H. H. D. Griffith), Mount Wellington, 

 Hobart (A. M. Lea). 



The smallest of the genus, and in size and appearance 

 remarkably close to Neomerimnetes destructor, but the second 

 segment of abdomen longer than third and fourth combined, 

 and its suture with first not straight but curved upwards from 

 each side, so that at the middle it is about one-half longer 

 than it is at the sides. 



The clothing is of a rather dingy slaty-grey, sometimes 

 almost uniform, but usually more or less distincly mottled or 

 spotted with brown, especially on the elytra. On an occa- 

 sional specimen the elytral clothing is mostly pale-brown, 

 with spots of slaty-grey and darker brown. 



NEOMERIMNETES 0) INFLATUS, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, appendages reddish. Densely clothed 

 with scales varying from grey to dark-brown. In addition 



(l) The species of this genus bear a strong resemblance to those 

 of Merimnetes. but may be at once distinguished therefrom by 

 the perfectly straight sutures of the second abdominal segment. 



