200 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLKOPTERA, 



Resembles »S'. ceresioides, Pasc, in its unifoniily coloured elytra 

 rounded at their apex, but difters from it by its prothorax 

 slightly (to a casual glance considerably) longer than wide and 

 much less coarsely punctured, and by the considerably less coarse 

 puncturation of its elytra. 



N. Queensland ; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



DiSTICHOCERA FrENCHI, Sp.nov. 



^. Atra ; capite prothorace sternis et elytrorum parte basali 

 (fere dimidio) dense rubro-aurantiaco-pubescentibus ; elytro- 

 rum parte apicali dense nigro-pubescenti, apice summo 

 truncato bi-apiculato. [Long. 9, lat. 3 lines. 



Black, the part of the body on both tlie upper and under 

 surface in front of the hind margin of the metasternum densely 

 clothed with bright reddish-orange silky pubescence ; the rest of 

 the elytra densely clothed with black pubescence; part of the derm 

 (especially on the elytra) underlying the orange pubescence con- 

 colorous with that pubescence. Head produced anteriorly, deeply 

 grooved between the antennae, which are as long as the body and 

 formed as in the males of others of the genus, but with the ramulse 

 of the joints extremely broad (very much broader, e.g., than in i). 

 2Jar, Newm.) and the apical joint almost cylindric. Prothorax 

 rather wider than long, with the hind angles prominent laterally 

 and another protuberance a little in front of them on the sides. 

 Elytra much narrowed hindwards, very tiiiely and closely punc- 

 tulate, each with several scarcely defined elevated lines. 



N. Queensland; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



AthExMistus cristatus, sp.nov. 



Niger, opacus ; setis brevibus pallidis sparsim vestitus ; capite 

 prothoraceque fere impunctatis; hoc tuberculis 5 discoidalibus 

 ornatis, lateribus pone medium dente sat valido armatis ; 

 elytris ad apicem oblique truncatis, vix punctulatis, seriatim 

 tuberculis sat parvis sat crebris instrnctis, his ad humeros ut 

 crista elevata condensatis ; scutello fortiter transverso. 



[Long. 6, lat. 2| lines. 



