380 DESCRIPTIONS OF XKW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN OOLEOPTERA, 



my own description the bead am', ]irutli(>iax were incorrectly described as "shal- 

 lowly punctate." Unfortunately with my type of A. ovipennis, I had two speci- 

 mens of another species (obtained subsequent to its description) and I appear to 

 have sent a specimen of this other species to Mr. Champion, who on it (and no 

 doubt on my inaccurate description) recorded ovipe»iiii< as a synonym of his 

 A. in flatus, but the latter name being already in use he suggested that ovipennis 

 might stand; in size, colour and general appearance in flatus and intricatus are 

 extremely close together; but Champion's description of the punctures of infhilnf 

 renders it quite certain that the two species are distinct. 



AXTHICUS ALBAXYEXSIS Pic. 



Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1895. p. cccl. 



(A. inflatus Champ.) 



In M. Pic's Catalogue of the Anthicidae, A. inflatus and A. ovipennis are 

 placed as synonyms of A. albanyensis; but as will be seen by the above correcting 

 note, inflatus and ovipennis are not equal. 



AXTHICUS HESPERI King. 



{A. mastersi Macl.; .i. similis Lea.) 



Placing the types of A. hesperi, A. mastersi and A. similis side by side 1 am 

 convinced that they belong to but one species; the sexes differ somewhat in the 

 size of head and apex of protliorax; the punctures vary slightly in size, and the 

 markings are extremely variable in extent, but these have been ijreviously com- 

 mented upon under notes on mastersi. * 



Anthicus scydmaexoioes King. 



The tj'pe of this species now has the head no darker than the protliorax, and 

 the "strong black setae" have been nearly all abraded ; the sides of the prothorax 

 are armed with small spines, from the hindmost one of which (almost in the exact 

 middle) a pubescent line extends backward to the base. 



A specimen taken in rotting leaves in the National Park (near Sydney) 

 evidently belongs to this species, but dili'ers I'rum the type in being slightly smaller, 

 tlie head entirely black, and the antennae with the first and seventh-tenth joints 

 conspicuously darker than the others. 



AnTHICUS I.M.MACL'l.ATUS King. 



This species occurs in abundance at the roots of plants on the sand-dunes at 

 Port Lincoln and Glenelg in South Australia; the head and prothorax (except 

 for a slight difference in shade) appear to be constant in colour; but the elytra 

 vary from entirely pale to entirely black (except that the base and suture are 

 obscurely diluted with red), with or without a sliglit metallic-green gloss; on nuuiy 

 specimens the dark parts consist of a large infuscation (scarcely a distinct s|)ot) 

 on each side. The subsutural striae iu-e well-defined, and by this character alone 

 entirely pale specimens may be distinguished from other pale species of the genus. 



•Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales. 1894, p.620. 



