346 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



on the prothorax, the hind apices of which are conspicucus white 

 spots at the base ; on the elytra, — taking the pale fuscous scales 

 as the ground colour, — the markings consist of white spots on the 

 disc which a little behind the middle unite into a transverse fascia 

 not nearly reaching the lateral margins, a white spot on each 

 shoulder, and some obscure piceous blotches on the disc inter- 

 spersed among the white spots and forming something like a fascia 

 (abbreviated at both ends) immediately V)ehind the white quasi- 

 fascia ; none of these markings however invade the actual suture 

 which is fuscous. I have seen only a single specimen clearly 

 presenting the above-described markings ; the scales appear to be 

 very deciduous and most examples are almost entirely of a pitchy 

 black colour, the whitish fascia-like mark behind the middle of the 

 elytra is, however, generally distinguishable. 

 S. Australia ; near Port Lincoln. 



Dyschcenium, gen.nov. 



Corpus oblongum squamosum ; oculi sat prominuli fortiter 

 granulati infra distantes ; rostrum sat validum arcuatum ; 

 scrobes ante-medianas laterales ; scapus oculum vix attingens ; 

 funiculus 6-articulatus ; prothorax transversus ad latera for- 

 titer rotundatis ; scutellum distinctum ; el^'tra prothorace 

 sat latiora ; pedes mediocres ; femora postica subdentata ; 

 tibise anticse apice haud mucronatae ; tarsi sat elongati, arti- 

 culo 3° lato, 4° modice elongato ; unguiculi simplices divari- 

 cati ; abdominis segmenta 2 basalia conjuncta quam cetera 

 conjuncta vix longiora, sutura prima arcuata ; coxae anticse 

 sat exsertse vix contiguse, intermedife distantes ; prosternum 

 ante coxas sat elongatum, antice vix emarginatum. 

 The 6-jointed funiculus of the antennae, non-mucronate front 

 tibiae, and claw joint strongly exserted are characters that in com- 

 bination will distinguish this genus from all previously described. 



Dyschcenium flavum, sp.nov. 

 Rufescens, elytris pallide flavis, rostri antennarumque 

 apice ipso picescenti ; squamis crassis elongatis setiformibus 

 albidis (in elytris seriatim positis) sat dense vestitum, crebre sat 



