BY ARTHUK M. LEA. 459 



Scape inserted nearer base than apex of rostrum, much shorter 

 than funicle. Prothorax convex, transverse, sides strongly rounded. 

 Scutellum absent. Elytra subcordate, strongly convex. Mesoster- 

 nal receptacle strongly raised in front, sides more or less incurved, 

 emargination semicircular; cavernous. Metasternum much shorter 

 than following segment; episterna indistinct. Abdomen rather 

 small, sutures distinct. Femora very long, neither grooved nor 

 dentate, hind ones passing elytra; tibiae straight or almost straight. 

 Subelliptic, convex, squamose, apterous. 



The above diagnosis has been drawn up from three Australian 

 species. The original diagnosis is somewhat faulty, and on it 

 alone they would not have been referred to the genus. But as Dr. 

 Heller figures* a species (A. laticollis) remarkably close in general 

 appearance, and undoubtedly congeneric with A. muticus, it was 

 considered advisable to place them provisionally in Anchithyrus. 

 Dr. Heller's figure will give a very good idea of A. muticus, but the 

 following remarks in his description do not apply to that species : 

 "rostro . . . carina mediana vix perspicua; prothorace . . . elytris 

 latioribus; elytris . . . pone medium fascia nebulosa transversa; 

 femoribus granulatis." 



Prothorax and elytra with regular and very distinct shining 



granules muticus. 



Elytra with small clusters of granules on the interstices caliqinosus. 



Without granules reticulatus. 



Anchithyrus muticus Lea, Mem. Soc. Ent. Beige, xvi., 1908, 

 pl74. 

 Hab. — New South Wales, Queensland. 



Anchithyrus caliginosus Lea, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1912, 

 p.88. 

 Hab . — Queensland. 



Anchithyrus reticulatus Lea, I.e. 

 Hab. — Queensland. 



* Abh. Mus. Dresd., 1900, p. 41, fig. 19. 



