BY THOMAS G. SLOANK. 475 



70. A. BRUNNICOLOR, n Sp. 



Robust, lightly convex; head constricted to a neck behind eyes; 

 prothorax suborbiculate, hardly wider between posterior than 

 between anterior angles, posterior angles widely obtuse; elytra 

 lightly convex, declivous to base, punctulate-striate; interstices 

 depressed, third, fifth and seventh seriate-striate. Ferruginous- 

 brown; elytra infuscate towards apex and sides, lateral margins 

 of a light ferruginous colour, middle of body beneath and femora 

 ferruginous. 



Head Isevigate, wide at eyes, transversely impressed across 

 occiput; vertex lightly convex; front lightly and widely biim- 

 pressed; eyes globose, prominent, lightly enclosed at base; post- 

 ocular processes not protuberant, about half the length of eyes, 

 decidedly and obliquely narrowed to neck. Prothorax laevigate, 

 transverse (1-4 x 2 mm.), convex, widest a little before middle; 

 sides rotundate ; apex truncate between angles ; base arcuate- 

 truncate ; anterior angles widely rounded ; lateral margins 

 explanate, hardly advanced at anterior angles, sloping roundly to 

 base behind posterior setigerous puncture ; median line lightly 

 impressed ; basal part of prothorax depressed ; elytra ovate 

 (5-7 X 3 5 mm.); basal border extending laterally to width of base 

 of prothorax with margins, its point of junction with lateral 

 border marked but not angulate; apical curve lightly sinuate on 

 each side. 



Length 7-7-8-7, breadth 2-9-3-5 mm. 



Hah. — Geraldton and Mullewa (Lea). 



Very closely resembling A. leai, SI., with which it is almost 

 identical in colour, and from which it does not differ in any 

 feature of importance. I have regarded it as a distinct species 

 on account of the following dififerences : — Eyes a little more 

 prominent; orbits smaller and less swollen behind eyes; prothorax 

 more transverse, more strongly and evenly rounded on sides, the 

 lateral margins more widely explanate and terminating more 

 -abruptly and a little further in front of base — thus forming a 

 more strongly marked juxta-basal sinuosity; elytra a little less 



