Notes oil Aniycterides. 25."> 



Head gently convex above, continuous with rostrum. Kostruni 

 little excavate; external ridges subparallel; median carina distinct, 

 continued as a bare line up forehead, point of junction marked by 

 a round, punctiform fovea; lateral-basal sulci triangular, mode- 

 rately deep. Scrnbes simple. Eyes ovate. Prothorax (4x4 mm.) 

 little rounded on sides; apical margin slightly sinuate above, with 

 deep post-ocular emargination. ocular lobes well defined. Disc with 

 moderately distinct subapical constriction and rather indistinct 

 median line; almost smooth, except for some nearly obliterated 

 longitudinal setigerous ridges; sides obsoletely granulate above. 

 Elytra (9 x 6) gently widened on sides ; base subtruncate, humeral 

 angles subrectangular, not prominent; disc convex, strial punctures 

 obsolete; interstices feebly raised, with a few isolated, almost 

 obliterated, tubercles, on third interstice extending down declivity; 

 sixth interstice with tubercles smaller, slightly more definite and 

 mucli closei- together. Sides with seriate punctures more evident, 

 interstices witli almost completely obsolete granules, closely set, and 

 indicated mainly by the setae. Beneath laevigate, with scattered 

 setigerous punctures. Apical segment with a shallow^ rather broad, 

 median, channel, but without tubercles. Anterior tarsi witli three 

 basal segments transverse, the second and third spongiose beneath 

 except along median sulcus; intermediate and posterior tarsi with 

 segments more elongate, not spongiose. 



? Somewhat larger, more ovate, more produced at apex, the 

 elytra separately acuminate; sculpture similar, but interstices not 

 raised, and tubercles slightly more distinct. Beneath convex; 

 apical segment with a narrow median impression, not quite reach- 

 ing anterior margin, deeper posteriorly; apical margin raised and 

 bisinuate in middle. Anterior tarsi not spongiose. 



Dimensions. — <? 1") x 6; ? 16 x 7 mm. 



Hah. — Victoria, Gippsland (C. French). 



Types in National Museum, Melbourne. 



Two males in the museum collection, from Portland and Western 

 Districts, differ in the lighter, more brownish, clothing, and in the 

 less obliterated sculpture. 



The species is undoubtedly close to .S'. obliteratus, but. if I am 

 correct in associating that name with a species found in the Vic- 

 torian Alps, the present species is readily separated by the apical 

 ventral segment being without tubercles in the male. The sculpture 

 is also more obliterated in S. innrnafus, compared with the type 

 5) of S. ohlite.ratus. 



