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FURTHER yOTES OX AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 
it ; each arm of the forceps is very "wide, depressed and curved, so 
that the broad truncate apex of either is turned towards the 
other, and each angle of the truncate end beare a sharp hooked 
tooth ; this appendage in many dried examples is only very 
partially exserted. 
Judging from Mr. Newman’s brief description of his Tanychilus 
gihbicoUis the present species must be very near it, but seems to 
differ in its elytral striae not being interrupted in front. If this 
interruption of the striation may have been an individual peculiar- 
ity of the type, it seems likely enough that AUecvAa 'pitneloide», 
Hope, (the in.sect here described as I believe) may be the same as 
Tanychilus gihbicoUis, Newm. 
M. (Allecula) elongata, Mad. 
The description of this insect points to its being congeneric with 
the preceding species and very close to it, but as there is no 
mention of the striae on the elytra being punctured (other than 
the statement that the elytra generally are “ densely and finely 
punctate,”) I presume it is distinct. 
M. Lixdi, sp.nov. 
Augusta ; elongata ; sat nitida ; pills erectis vestita ; nigra, 
antennis pedibusque plus minus picescentibus; clypeo labroque 
antice, tai-sis apicem versus, et abdominis segmentis apicalibus 3 
postice, rufescentibus ; capite crebre subfoi titer, prothoraee scutel- 
loque sparsim minus fortiter, punctulatis ; elytris striatis, striis 
(antice manifeste, postice vix penspicue) subtilius crebre punctu- 
latis ; interstitiis spai-sim punctulatis, antice planis latis, postice 
convexis minus latis. 
[(? Long. 5, lat. 1§ lines ; ^ Long. 6, lat. 21 lines. 
(J. Tibiis anticis intus supra medium angulatim dilatatis; oculis 
sat appro ximatis ; antennis elongatis ; segmento ventrali apical i 
forcipite imstructo. 
Q. Tibiis simplicibus ; oculis minus approximatis ; abdominis 
apice baud forcipite instructo ; antennis minus elongatis. 
