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rotundatis et leviter marginatis ; abdomine sat longias exserto ; pedibus flavis; 

 antennis brevibus, laete flavis, articulis septimo 6t quinto incrassatis. 



Head large, bright yellow ; eyes yellow ; antennae rather short, robust, bright 



yellow, with the fifth and seventh joints incrassate. 

 Thorax rather large, short and broad, semicircular, vei-y finely punctured, with the 



interstices shining, anterior margin slightly reflexed, basal margin faintly 



sinuated, with the angles broad and slightly produced. 

 ScuteUum small, triangular, rufo-testaeeous. 

 Elytra rufo-testaceous, with the shoulders broadlj^ fuscous, longer but not broader 



than the thorax, more deeply punctured, with the interstices alutaceous, 



broadest at the shoulders, rather attenuated posteriorly, sides slightly rounded 



and slightly margined. 

 Abdomen considerably exserted, rufo-castaneous. 

 Legs robust, bright yellow. 

 Under parts rufo-castaneous. 

 Differs from other species in its broad and more rounded form, and in its peculiar 



colour. 



Habitat, Polynesia. Found near Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, by Mr. 

 Blackburn ; and North America, found by Mr. H. Schwarz. 



Anisomeristes flavus, sp. n. 



L. c. yIj lin. -^ 1 mm. — Subovatus, valde convexus, nitidissimus, pilis aureis 

 sparse vestitus, omnino flavus; capita parvo, obseurato; pronoto permagno, antice 

 circulariter rotundato et reflexo, glabro, nitidissimo, margine basali profunde 

 sinuato, angulis latis, valde productis ; eli/tris modicis, pronoto sesqui longioribus, 

 haud latioribus, ad humeros latissimis, sat leviter punctatis, interstitiis glabris, 

 nitidis, lateribus fere rectis, apicibus obtusis ; abdomine flavo, vix exserto ; pedibus 

 atque antennis Ifete flavis. 



Body subovate, very convex and very shining, thinly clothed with golden hair, 



yellow throughout. 

 Head small, dusky ; eyes prominent ; antennae moderate, bright yellow, with the 



seventh joint incrassate. 

 Thorax very large, circularly rounded and reflexed in front, smooth and very 



shining, basal margin deeply sinuated, with the angles broad and much 



produced. 

 ScuteUum moderate, very finely asperated. 

 Elytra moderate, one-half longer but not broader than the thorax, widest at the 



shoulders, rather finely asperated, with the interstices smooth and shining, 



sides nearly straight, extremities obtusely rounded. 

 Legs moderate, yellow. 

 Under parts yellow. 

 Differs from all the preceding species in the much less dilatation of the base of the 



thorax, and of the fifth and seventh joints of the antennae, and also in its 



uniform yellow colour. 

 Habitat, Australasia. Found near Adelaide, Australia, by Fleet-Engineer Walker, 



E.N. 



Anisomeristes Revelierei. 



(Sericoderus) lievelierei, Reitter, Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 1878, p. 126. 



L. c. xV4^ ^iii- = 1'12-1"25 mm. — Subconicus, postice atteuuatus, valde 

 convexus, sat nitidus, pilis aureis sat dense vestitus, piceus, elytris apices versus 

 plus minusve late rufis : pronoto modico, antice circulariter rotundato, regulariter 



