(36 H. I. Carter: 



fluently punctate with short white hairy pubescence, eyes prominent 

 and widely separated, last joint of maxillary palpi securiform, 

 antennae moderately long, joint 1 tumid, 2 considerably shorter 

 and thinner, 3 subcylindric and as long as 4, 4-8 elongate, enlarged 

 and rounded at apex, 9-10 of same length as preceding but finer, 11 

 as long as 10, finely pointed. Prothorax convex, wider than long, 

 truncate at apex and base, sides well rounded, widest near (or rather 

 in front of) middle, widely rounded before the narrowed apex, 

 basal half slightly converging, nearly straight, posterior angles sub- 

 rectangular, slightly blunted, a faint medial depression near base, 

 but without distinct medial line, or the usual basal foveae. 

 Scutellum widely rounded behind. Elytra one and a-half times 

 wider than prothorax at base (24; : \\ mm.), narrowly elliptic, striate 

 punctate, the striae well marked, punctures regular and round, 

 sutural intervals slightly convex at apex, all intervals with a single 

 distinct row of setiferous punctures, each bearing a long upright 

 white hair. Procoxae contiguous, post intercoxal process rather 

 widely triangular, sternum closely and coarsely punctate, abdomen 

 finely setose punctate, the hairs shorter than on elytra, and very 

 sparse. Legs slender, tibiae curved. 



Dimensions. — 5-6 x 1.7-2 mm. 



Habitat. — Sydney (Dr. E. W. Ferguson and the author). 



Seven specimens of this puzzling little species are before me. 

 They show no sexual characters in legs and antennae. At first con- 

 sidered as a neoci stela. I find the antennae, head and especially the 

 prothoracie structure quite exclude this classification. Though 

 differing in the wider and rounded prothorax from the typical 

 Chromomoea, it is so close to the species which Blackburn called 

 Anaxo occidentalism in structure, that it must be placed in the same 

 genus as that species. Possibly these two insects will be placed 

 on further evidence in a separate genus. The nitid setiferous 

 elytra, with the pale coloured but quite opaque pronotum, renders it 

 easy to identify. The legs vary in colour from red to piceous-red. 



Types in the author's coll. 



Table of Anaxo, Rates. 



1 8 Elytra black 



2 5 Punctures of head evidently closer than those of prothorax 



3 5 Interstices of elytra closely punctate 



4 Legs black, femora of $ angulate Uiter, Blackb 

 Legs partly yellow, femora of $ simple brevicornis, Bates 



6 8 Punctures of head and prothorax equally (or nearly so) close 



l Species unknown to, or not definitely determined by the author. 



