614 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



tibise, apical joint (seen from beneath) almost as long as the others 

 combined. Length 2^, width ^ mm. 



Hah. — Whitton (Lea); Tarcutta (Macleay Museum). 



Anthicus latus, n.sp. 



Short, thick, subdepressed, shining. Head and prothorax red 

 and highly polished; elytra reddish-testaceous, apical third 

 piceous, lower surface and legs reddish-testaceous, apex and sides 

 of abdomen inclining to piceous, antenna? reddish-testaceous, apical 

 joints darker; eyes black. Elytra covered with stx^aggling, 

 upright, brown, and shorter, semi-upright, whitish hairs; head 

 and prothorax with a few scattered hairs, meso-, metasternum and 

 abdominal segments with rather short pubescence. Above, and 

 head at the sides beneath sparsely and shallowly punctate. 



Head transverse, eyes large; antennae inserted a short distance 

 in front of the eyes, extending a short distance beyond prothorax. 

 Prothorax transversely subcordate, rounded anteriorly, contracted 

 posteriorly; longer and slightly wider than head; the disk in front 

 with two small foveas, connected at their base. Elytra about one 

 and a half times as long as head and prothorax combined, and 

 about one and a half times as long as wide; shoulders slightly 

 rounded, sides gradually widening to beyond the middle, the suture 

 at the base depressed. Legs rather short, posterior and interme- 

 diate tibiffi in the male with several short spines at their apices. 

 Length 3, width l^mm. 



Hab. — Galston. 



The above species may be distinguished from A. brevicollis, 

 King, (a very common and variable species) by its broader form, 

 larger and red head (always black in brevicollis), different ground 

 colour, sparser puncturation and pubescence, concolorous legs, 

 posterior tibife moi'e slender and less bent, itc; that species also 

 is always dark beneath (^ piceous, ^ black). 



Anthicus similis, n.sp. 



Elongate, subdepressed, shining. Head piceous-black; prothorax, 

 lower surface, legs and antennae dark red; abdominal segments 



