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PE to consider it a colour var. with the elytral sculpture acci- 
dentally wanting in distinctness were it not for the very evident 
cannot be much doubt of this Tasmanian Meisner being 
identical with it I have thought it desirable to describe it fully. 
mania. 
M. cliens, sp. nov. Fem. M. clientulo, Waterh., affinis; niger, 
in elytrorum partibus tribus anticis ruber; prothorace 5- 
àreolato ; rostro nullo; elytris costis ARSTE dis- 
coidalibus 4 instructis. (his inter se sat æqualibus), inter- 
stitiis biseriatim areolatis (series lineis subtilibus elevatis 
separantur), scu ptura basin—et præsertim apicem—versus 
quam in medio magis pers Ped — quam Base: 
a vix longioribus, sat fortiter compressis, articulis 4° 
— 9? quam longioribus sat tioribus tee 3? quam 4" sat 
Wale 
Easily distinguishable from most 5 its congeners by the surface 
antero-lateral ones are coarsely punctulate. Differs from 
M. clientulus, Waterh., inter ^a by the four principal eli cuta 
lines on the disc of its elytra being equal inter se, and the hind 
angles of its prothorax not produced outward. 
N.S. W. (Tweed R.) 
M. flagellatus, sp. nov. Mas. Niger, elytris rufo-testaceis ; 
prothorace 7-areolato; rostro elongato (tibie anticæ longi- 
interstitiis biseriatim perspicue et regulariter areolati 
(series lineis subtiiibus elevatis ei definitis separantur); 
antennis quam corporis dimidium vix longioribus, sat 
fortiter TR articulis 3°—10° TR flabellatis, flabellis 
haud serratis ea M. gigantis, Blackb. , sunt), articuli 3' 
flabello ultra ation! 5' basin producto. Long., 71.3 lat., 121 
The long slender rami into which the antennal ida ot the 
male are produced feti this spain is from all the other 
dE of the elytral costs to become feebler towards the apex, 
the narrower prothorax (especially in proportion to the width of 
