790 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA. 



conspicue) metasterni lateribus, dense niveo-pilosis ; elytris 



(his postice fortiter bispinosis) medium versus transversim 



obsolete piceo-fasciatis ; antennis 1 2-articulatis, articulis 3-11 



ramis binis (internis elongatis, externis brevibus) instructis. 



5 latet. [Long. 16, lat. 4 lines. 



The similarity in structure of the antennae of this insect to those 



of Distichocera is noteworthy, but its very coarsely granulated 



eyes and many other characters of course separate it widely from 



that genus. The sculpture of the upper surface is very much as 



in A. laminosus, Newm. 



Queensland ; forwai'ded to me for description by C. French, Esq. 



N.B. — I am all the more averse to giving this insect a new 

 generic name because the names of genera closely allied to it are 

 already somewhat confused. Petalodes was formed on a supposed 

 (Ijut non-existent) difference from Piesarthrius in antennal struc- 

 ture, — the male of the latter being unknown at the time. Petalodes 

 liowever was a preoccupied name and Anatisis was substituted by 

 Mr. Pascoe. If every slight difference in structui-e requires a new 

 generic name the genera of Strongylurides with pectinated or 

 flabellated antennae will be equally numerous with the species. 



