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the head), and the non-serrate outline of the antennal rami. The 

 antennae resemble those of M. cinctus, Waterh. 



N.S. Wales; taken by Mr. Froggatt near Yass. (His. No. 44.) 



M. miles> sp. no v. Mas. Niger, elytris rufis; prothorace 



7-areolato ; rostro fere nullo ; elytris costis longitudinalibus 



discoidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat aequalibus), inter- 



stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus distinctis, 



— his basin versus quam costae vix minus elevatis, — separ- 



antur) ; antennis quam corporis dimidium brevioribus, 



fortiter compressis, articulis 3° leviter, — 4° — 10° valde 



transversis, 4° quam 3 ns paullo breviori. Long., 5 1.; lat., If 1. 



This species would be reckoned, I think, by Mr. Waterhouse a 



true Metriorrhynchus. It differs from all the species resembling 



it in respect of colour (except rujipennis, Fab., and brevirostris, 



Waterh.), by its having scarcely any rostrum. From rujipennis 



(=sahbrosus, Waterh.) it differs inter alia by its still shorter and 



wider rostrum, by the much shorter and wider joints of its 



antennae, by the obtuse hind angles of its prothorax, and by the 



much more distinct lines separating the interstitial areolets of 



its elytra which in the front might be called intermediate costae. 



M. brevirostris, Waterh., has a diagnosis of only three words, and 



the appended note merely states that the insect differs faom 



erythropterus, Er., by "the rostrum shorter, scarcely longer than 



broad." In the present species the rostrum is very much broader 



than long. 



Victoria ; Dividing Range. 



M. mentitor, sp. nov. Fern. Niger, prothoracis elytrorumque 

 lateribus anguste, et horum apice sat late, rufis ; rostro fere 

 nullo; prothorace 7-areolato ; elytris costis longitudinalibus 

 discoidalibus 4 instructis (his inter se sat aequalibus), inter- 

 stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus sat mani- 

 fes"tis separantur); antennis quam corporis dimidium vix 

 brevioribus, fortiter compressis, articulis 3° — 10° quam 

 longioribus vix latioribus, 3° 4° que longitudine sat aequali- 

 bus. Long., 6 1.; lat., 2 1. 



Near M. ccenosus, Lea, but differing by the hind angles of the 

 prothorax quite obtuse the lines separating the areolae of the 

 elytral interstices very distinct in almost their whole length (a 

 little obscure only in the middle of their length) and the con- 

 siderably larger size of the insect ; also in the antennae and legs 

 entirely black. In colour (except in the red edging of its pro- 

 thorax), general build, and elytral sculpture, remarkably like the 

 insect that Mr. Waterhouse described as M. inqui?iulus, but 

 subsequently (on the ground of its peculiar prothoracic areolation) 

 placed in his genus Stadenus. According to Mr. Waterhouse's 



