328 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



plane contiguse, iotermediae sat distantes ; presternum antice 



for titer emarginatum. 

 The species for which I propose this name are very different in 

 general appearance from most of the Erirhinidce and at first 

 glance suggest the idea of a Cryptorhynchid which however is con- 

 tradicted by the total absence of a prosternal channel. Some of 

 the Australian genera seem almost to fill up the interval between 

 the above-named groups. 



This genus I should judge to be near Mr. Pascoe's Phrenozemia 

 (although I should certainly not place it among the Eugnomides), 

 but from the description and figure of the latter it would appear 

 that the rostrum is very differently shaped. In Anorthorhinus it is 

 in shape and sculpture much like that of Desiantha, esj)ecially 

 those species (e.g., maculata, Blackb.), where it is at its shortest, — 

 but it differs in being conspicuously and abruptly constricted 

 on either side (but not on its upper surface) immediately in 

 fi^ont of the eyes. These latter are considerably less widely 

 separated beneath than in Desiantha. The prothorax is very much 

 narrower in proportion to the elytra than it is in Desiantha ; the 

 intermediate coxte are about as widely separated as in that genus. 

 The distinct (though narrow) separation of the anterior coxae 

 sepa)-ates the present genus from nearly all the Erirhinides yet 

 described {Orpha has anterior coxae not contiguous, but its femora 

 are all dentate). The tibife and tarsi are much like those of 

 Desiantha, saving that the former are a little shorter and stouter, 

 with a less conspicuous apical mucro and that the apical joint of 

 the latter is scarcely so long. The species before me are of very 

 obscure and sombre appearance. I believe that this genus stands 

 nearest to Desiantha of described forms. 



Anorthorhinus pictipes, sp.nov. 



Late oblongus ; niger, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus ; 

 squamis minutis (in rostro griseis transversim positis, in pro- 

 thorace elytrisque piceis vel nigris hie illic dilutioribus vel 

 obscure aureis, in corpore subtus pedibusque rufescentibus, in 

 tibiis basi et apice albidis) vestitus ; corpore toto supra setulis 



