BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 469 



Ptinus gloriosus, n.sp. 



Black, appendages somewhat reddish. With dense golden 

 brown clothing, variegated with white and stramineous ; 

 elytra, in addition, with rather long brownish hairs on setae ; 

 undcr-suriacc and legs with dense whitish pubescence. 



Antenna' long and thin. Prothorax slightly wider than 

 long; with dense, normally concealed punctures. Elytra 

 strongly convex : briflely ovate, shoulders strongly rounded ; 

 with regular rows of suboblong punctures, mostly concealed 

 by clothing. Length, 2-2^ mm. 



liah. — W. Australia: Swan River (A. M. Lea). 



Most of the clothing is almost of the same lovely colour as 

 the spots of /''. eminens, but the elytra are of very different 

 shape, and the prothorax has conspicuous basal markings. On 

 the prothorax, the clothing, except for a conspicuous snowy 

 patch on each side of the base, is entirely golden-brown, and 

 in four conspicuous ridges ; on the elytra, the golden-brown 

 clothing covers most of the surface, but leaves a cross-shaped 

 glabrous space, of which the upright commences on the 

 suture at about one-fifth from the base, and extends almost, 

 or quite, to the apex, and is irregularly bounded behind the 

 middle by white or stramineous clothing (the only pale cloth- 

 ing on the elytra) ; the cross-piece is almost median, and is 

 not quite straight. On partially abraded specimens, the cross 

 is not very evident, and normally it is often inflated on each 

 side towards the apex, so as to be somewhat anchor-shaped. 

 There are five specimens before me, all differing slightly in 

 size, but with almost identical clothing. 



Ptinus anchoralis, n.sp. 



Black, appendages reddish. Clothing, except on elytra, 

 much as in the preceding species. Shape and sculpture much 

 the same. Length, 2^ mm. 



Hah. — \V. Australia: Pelsart Island (A. M. Lea). 



