BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 



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canal marked only on the basal half, where it is shallow, punctate, 

 and terminates in two obtuse tubercles. Elytra subovate, scarcely 

 longer than head and prothorax combined, hardly depressed at 

 base. Legs slender, femora (except anterior) moderately thickened, 

 anterior shorter and about twice as thick as the others. Length 

 2-2|, width |-§ mm. 



Hah. — -Tamworth; in Peel River flood debris. 



Anthicus demissus, n.sp. 



Narrow, elongate, depressed, shining. Head, meso- and meta- 

 sternum dark red, prothorax and antenna? paler; elytra obscure 

 brownish-testaceous, darker about scutellum; abdominal segments 

 piceous at apex and sides, paler in the middle, legs and palpi 

 testaceous, eyes black. Elytra clothed with short yellowish, the 

 sides of abdominal segments with whitish very short pubescence; 

 the rest of the body sparselj' pubescent. Densely and not very 

 minutely punctate (except on apical portion of elytra and 

 abdominal segments where they are very minute), the punctures 

 largest beneath. 



Head large, subquadrate, truncate at base, wider and longer 

 than prothorax, and as wide as elytra; eyes small, scarcely pro- . 

 jecting beyond the sides; antennae slender, reaching base of 

 prothorax, 1st joint slightly thickened, not as long as 2nd-3rd 

 combined, 3rd slightly longer than 2nd, 3rd-10th subcylindrical, 

 subequal, 11th one and a half times as long as 10th, none of the 

 joints transverse. Prothorax longer than wide, strongly rounded 

 in front, truncate at base, near the apex one and a half times as 

 wide as the base, the sides straight, without trace of median line. 

 Elytra but little longer than head and prothorax combined, about 

 twice as long as wide, shoulders feebly rounded, parallel-sided to 

 near the apex, feebly depressed on each side of the suture at the 

 base. Femora thickened towards apex, anterior the shortest; 

 tibia? straight, thin; posterior tarsi longer than tibiae, the basal 

 slightly longer than apical joint; intermediate tarsi scarcely longer 

 than tibia^, apical joint longest; anterior tarsi much shorter than 



