712 A LIST OP THE TROGOSITIDiE OF AUSTRALIA, 



Underside reddish testaceous, sterna and abdominal segments 

 extremely finely and sparingly punctured. Legs reddish testaceous. 

 Length 4 mm. ; greatest width 2J- mm. 



Lane Cove, Sydney, New South Wales. 



Readily known by its small size, by the punctuation of its 

 elytra (which are arcuately narrowed behind) and by its finely 

 pubescent surface. 



23. AncVrona Gestroi. 



Ancyrona Gestroi, Reitter, Ann, Mus. Genov., XV., p. 459 

 (1880). 



Somerset, North Australia ; also recorded from New Guinea. 



24. Ancyrona latebrosa, sp. n. (A.M.) 



Broadly ovate, ferruginous, somewhat shining, thickly clothed 

 with short grey and black pubescence ; head and prothorax finely 

 and not very closely punctured ; elytra moderately strongly 

 punctate-striate, the alternate interstices slightly elevated : each 

 elytron with an indistinct black fascia near the base, and another 

 narrower and even less distinct fascia just before the apex. 



Head transverse. Antennae reddish testaceous, the club com- 

 posed of three loosely articulated joints. Prothorax at the base 

 about twice the width of the head, considerably narrowed and 

 moderately emai-ginate in front ; the anterior and posterior angles 

 rounded ; the lateral margins broad, reflexed and finely punctured. 

 Scutellum ti-ansverse, rounded behind, clothed with pubescence. 

 Elytra about twice the length of the head and prothorax together, 

 modei-ately strongly punctate-striate, the interstices narrow and 

 alternately raised ; lateral margins modei-ately broad, reflexed. 

 Underside of the head and prosternum ferruginous, the latter very 

 finely and sparingly punctured ; mesosternum, metasternum and 

 abdominal segments testaceous, finely and not very closely 

 punctured. Legs testaceous. Length 5 mm. ; greatest width 

 2i^mm. 



Wide Bay, Queensland. 



A very distinct species apparently belonging to the same section 

 of the genus as the Japanese Ancyrona Leiaisi of Reitter. 



