618 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, 



than wide, apex rounded, base margined and truncate, constricted 

 in the middle, giving it a bilobed appearance, of which the 

 posterior is sHghtly the narrower. Elytra more than one and a half 

 times as long as head and prothorax combined, not twice as long 

 as wide, shoulders very feebly rounded, sides parallel to near the 

 apex, base feebly raised, narrowly depressed on each side of the 

 suture from base to apex. Legs slender, femora scarcely thick- 

 ened, tibia? straight; anterior tarsi shorter, the others longer than 

 tibije. Length 3, width | mm. 



Hub. — Tamworth and Windsor, N.S.W. 



Anthicus pallipes, n.sp. 



Elongate, subdepressed, shining. Black; antennje pale reddish- 

 testaceous; each elytron with two testaceous macula?, one near 

 the base, large, transverse, almost touching the side and suture, 

 the other near the ajDex, smaller, narrower, not so close to the 

 suture, and still further from the side; beneath piceous-black, 

 middle of the metasternum slightly paler; legs pale testaceous, 

 tibise at their base stained with brown. Above sparsely clothed 

 with rather long brownish pubescence, densest on elytra; beneath 

 sparingly pubescent. Head densel}^ and very minutely punctate 

 in front, highly polished behind, prothorax densely and minutely 

 punctate, punctures largest at the base, the anterior angles almost 

 impunctate, elytra rather sparsel}'^ and not very minutely punctate 

 (except towards apex, where the punctures are almost obsolete), 

 sides of meso- and metasternum, and apices of abdominal segments 

 minutely punctate. 



Head rounded, slightly longer than wide; eyes placed in the 

 exact middle, prominent; antennae slender, reaching intermediate 

 legs, 1st joint slightly longer than 2nd-3rd combined, 2nd-7th 

 equal in length and thickness, 8th-10th slightly wider and feebl}^ 

 transverse, 11th about one and a half times as long as 10th. 

 Prothorax narrower than head and about one and a half times as 

 long, longer than wide, transversely globose in front, much 

 narrower behind, margined at base and apex. Elj'tra a little 

 more than one and a half times as long as head and prothorax 



