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On the type there is an infuscated stain at the inner 

 corner of each of the latero-basal areolets, and the scutellum 

 is also infuscated towards the base. In my table would be 

 placed with M. posticalis, but the frontal areolets are very 

 different, and the antennae are non-ramose; regarding the 

 dark parts of the prothorax as more than stains it would be 

 placed with M. viarginipennis and M. eremitus, whose pale 

 elytral markings are longitudinal. 



Metriorrhynchus crassipes, n. sp. 



<$ . Black and flavous. 



Head with very short rostrum. Antennae rather short 

 and wide, third joint distinctly longer than fourth, and each 

 feebly serrated, the others to tenth more strongly serrated 

 and gradually decreasing in width, eleventh about one-half 

 longer than tenth. Prothorax moderately transverse; con- 

 spicuously seven-areolate ; apex obtusely produced in middle, 

 sides narrowed to middle, front angles obtusely rounded, hind 

 ones slightly rounded. Elytra rather thin; with double rows 

 of somewhat irregular punctures, alternate interstices dis- 

 tinctly elevated. Legs rather stouter than usual. Length, 

 7-7'5 mm. 



II ah. — Worth-western Australia: Forrest River, in 

 February (J. Clark from W. Crawshaw) ; Northern Territory: 

 Stapleton, in February (G. F. Hill, No. 54). Type, I. 11832. 



The flavous parts are the prothorax, scutellum, elytra 

 (except for rather more than the apical fourth), abdomen 

 (three or four of the basal segments deeply infuscated or 

 black), coxae and base of femora (more of the middle than 

 of the hind ones, and less than of the front ones). In my 

 table would be placed with M. posticalis, but the male of that 

 species has flabellate antennae; in appearance the tvpe is 

 somewhat like a small specimen of M. apicalis, M. abdominalis, 

 or M. melaspis, but its , rostrum is short; many species of 

 Trichalus are 1 similarly coloured. 



Var.(1) Another male, from the Forrest River, may 

 belong to this species, but it differs from the others in having 

 the prothorax with the sides almost parallel, its front margin 

 semidouble (approaching that of M. gracilis), more than one- 

 third of the elytra black on the sides, but the flavous part 

 triangularly advanced at the suture, more of the hind femora 

 pale, and the abdomen entirely black. 



Metriorrhynchus eucerus, n. sp. 

 <S . Flavous, head (partly or entirely), antennae (basal 

 joints sometimes obscurely paler), palpi and apical fourth or 

 fifth of elytra black, tarsi and metasternum more or less deeply 

 infuscated. 



