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Trichalus from Tasmania ne locality) which I believe to 
be discoideus and from which the present insect differs inter alia 
by the very much larger areol» into which its elytral interstices. 
are divided ; they are like those of Metriorrhynchus ( Stadenus ) 
inquinulus, "Waterh 
ictoria ; Dividing Range. 
T. distinctus, Lea. The description of this resi scarcely 
differs from that of 7. ampliatus, Waterh., and both descriptions 
might well be founded on the same insect as Lycus ochraceus, 
Dalm. 
METRIORRHYNCHUS. 
M. insignipennis, Sp. Mas. Totus niger; prothora 
7-areolato ; rostro Fs nullo; elytris costis longitndinalibus 
4 instructis; hs cost costu is transversis numerosis bene 
definitis inter se juncte sunt, ita ut in utroque elytro areolæ 
quadratæ longitudinaliter 5-seriatim positæ sunt; antennis 
corporis dimidio longitudine sat æqualibus, sat fortiter 
compressis, articulis omnibus (basali 2° que exceptis) quam 
latioribus plus PEE longioribus, articulo 3° 4^ æquali. 
Long., 33—4 1.; PEE 
Although the ER is very short it cannot be called quite 
ger ae the distance from the base of the antenne to the 
length of one of the latter. The elytra have each four discal 
cost without any trace of intermediate elevated longitudinal 
conspicuous. This sculpture is ee Bh of Mr. Waterhouse's 
genus oa but the costule connecting the elytral cost are 
if 
in any case Xylobanus does not appear to me capable of being 
maintained as more than a section of Metriorrhynchus. The 
second joint of the antenne is scarcely visible. 
Tasmania. 
Y. s Fab. Fem. Totus niger; prothorace 7-areolato 
rostro fere nullo ; elytris costis longitudinalibus discoidalibus 
4 instructis, interstitiis biseriatim indistincte areolatis (series 
lineis indistincte, oregano magis distincte,—elevatis separan- 
multo angustiori. Long., ia 1s i iL 
Very near M. hemorrhoidalis, d a ae I should be dis- 
