148 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



basali quam 2**' vix duple longiori, hoc 3'° fere sequali ; pro- 

 thorace sat transverse, antice angustato, lateribus sat rotun- 

 datis ; elytris leviter striatis, striis obscure punctulatis. 



[Long. 1^, lat. 5 line. 

 The whitish hair-like scales on the elytra are wanting on a 

 rather large roundish space around the scutellum, on the suture 

 and on a transverse space crossing the sutui-e just behind the 

 middle, bub not reaching the lateral margins. From a certain 

 point of view (looking from the scutellum hindward, the rostrum 

 being directed towards the observer) the denuded spaces present 

 the appearance of a cross standing on a globe. The blackish head 

 (the rostrum and antennae being red) and space around scutellum, 

 in contrast with the red colour of all the rest of the insect (as 

 seen from above) will also render this species very easy to identify. 

 The sculpture of the elytra is very much less definite than in the 

 preceding species. 



South Australia ; Lake Eyre basin. 



Eristus, gen.nov. 



Rostrum latum depressum leviter arcuatum minus elongatum 



basi leviter angustatum ; scrobes postmedianse ad oculi partem 



inferiorem attingentes ; scapus brevis ; funiculus 7-articu- 



latus ; clava sat distincta ; oculi magni rotundati sat 



prominuli fortiter granulati ; prothorax antice angustatus, 



lobis ocularibus nullis ; scutellum modicum ; elytra oblonga ; 



pedes sat validi ; femora sublinearia mutica ; tibise apice 



spina armatpe ; tarsi elongati, articulo tertio fortiter dilatato 



bifido, quarto elongate, unguiculi simplices divaricati ; meso- 



sternum inter coxas sat latum ; abdominis segmentum 



secundum quam sequentia 2 conjuncta baud brevius ; horura 



suturse rectse vel ad latera retrorsum leviter productis; corpus 



( 1 specierum omnium) setis elongatis sparsim vestitum. 



Examples of this very abnormal form have long been in my 



collection, and I have delayed describing them because I have 



been unable to make up my mind to what subfamily they should 



be referred. Each re-examination, however, leads to the same 



