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arrangement of the Australian Lycides this is a true 

 Metriorrliynclius. 



Victoria ; Dividing Range. 



M. paradoxa, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytrorum apice sat late et 



margine externo (parte antica excepta) anguste rufis ; pro 



thorace 7-areolato ; rostro nullo ; elytris costis longitudinali- 



bus discoidalibus 4 (his inter se sequalibus) instructis, costis 



lineis recte transversis (his ut costa? a?qualiter elevatis) con- 



junctis ; antennis quam corporis dimidium paullo longioribus, 



sat fortiter compressis, articulis omnibus (2° excepto) quam 



latioribus longioribus, articulo 3° quam l us duplo longiori, 3° 



— 11° longitudine sat aequalibus modice serratis. Long., 41.; 



lat., It 1. 



The well defined seven areola? of the prothorax together with 



the remarkable elytral sculpture render this species easy to 



recognise. It does not appear to fall into a;iy of the subgenera 



that Mr. Waterhouse has formed at the expense of Metriorrliynclius. 



Each longitudinal costa on the elytra is connected with that next 



to it by a regular series of perfectly transverse short costa? of the 



same elevation as the longitudinal costa?, and there is no trace 



whatever of intermediate longitudinal lines. Mr. Waterhouse 



would perhaps place this insect in his genus Xylobanns. 



Victoria ; Dividing Range. 



M. eremita, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, prothoracis lateribus mar- 

 gineque antico et elytrorum sutura (anguste) margine laterali 

 (sat late) apiceque (vixin parte elytrorum septima) testaceo- 

 rufis ; rostro latiori quam longiori ; prothorace 7-areolato ; 

 elytris cbstis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 4 (his fortiter 

 cariniformibus inter se sequalibus) instructis, interstitiis 

 biseriatim areolatis (quam M. erythropteri, Er., manifeste 

 minus grosse, pra?sertim In parte mediana ; series lineis 

 subtilibus elevatis sat continue separantur); antennis quam 

 corporis dimidium paullo longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, 

 articulo 3° quam 4 US vix longiori, articulis 3° — 10° sat 

 fortiter serratis, parte producta quam articuli pars cetera 

 parum breviori. 



Fem. antennis minus fortiter serratis. Long., 5 — 6-J- 1.; lat., 

 • If— 2 1. 



Rather closely allied to M. monticola, Blackb., and margini- 

 pennis, Lea; from the former it differs inter alia by the much 

 less coarse sculpture of the intervals between the elytral costse ; 

 from the latter by inter alia the discoidal costa? of the elytra 

 being similar inter se and the structure of the antenna?. There 

 is evidently something wrong in the numbering of the joints in 

 the description of the antenna? of marginipennis of which it is 



