ON COLEOPTEEA, MOSTLY FROM QUEENSLAND. 
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On COLEOPTERA, mostly from Queensland. 
(Part II .) 1 
By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. 
(Contribution from South Australian Museum). 
Mr. Hacker, the Entomologist of the Queensland Museum, has recently 
collected in the National Park of Queensland (several other entomologists have 
also collected there), and from the mass of material taken it is evident that this 
is one of the richest places in Australia for insects. This is very fortunate on account 
of the immense clearings of forests that have occurred in the coastal districts of 
Queensland and northern New South Wales. 
MALACODERMIME. 
Metriorrhynchus connexus n. sp. 
Black, sides of prothorax and elytra (except for a large discal blotch) 
reddish testaceous. 
Rostrum absent. Antennae long, extending to about the middle of the elytral 
blotch, rather strongly serrated, third joint slightly longer than fourth, the others 
very feebly decreasing in length, but eleventh about as long as third. Prothorax 
five-areolate, moderately transverse, hind angles acutely triangular. Elytra narrow, 
sides almost parallel to near apex ; with irregular single rows of punctures on most 
of the surface, becoming double on basal fifth on each side and about the tips. 
Abdominal notch deep. Length, 7 0-7*5 mm. 
5 . Differs in having the antenna 1 shorter and less strongly serrated, elytra 
not quite so parallel-sided and abdomen not notched. 
Queensland : National Park in December (H. Hacker). Types, in Queensland 
Museum. 
An unusually interesting species. The elytral punctures are in irregular single 
series for most of their extent, but are in double series in places. Regarding them 
asMn single series, the postmedian blotch on the elytra readily distinguishes the 
species from all previously described ones ; this blotch also distinguishes from all 
the species in which the pronotum is five-areolate. The median areolct of the 
prothorax extends almost to the apex, and the latero-apical ones are sharply defined 
by their carinse. The black part of the prothorax is complete from base to apex, 
with the pale portion on each side wider at the base than apex : on the elytra the 
blotch is postmedian and extends to about one-fifth from the apex and to about 
one-third (of each elytron) from the sides ; it differs slightly on the tw r o specimens. 
Metriorrhynchus filirostris n. sp. 
2. Black, pro thorax, elytra, and sides of scutellum reddish testaceous. 
Rostrum thin and slightly longer than prothorax. Antennae moderately 
long and serrated, third joint rather long, slightly longer than eleventh, and 
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A Part J. in Memoirs Qlcl. Museum, VII, pt. iii, 4th Novr., 1921. 
