10 DESCRIPTION OF ANTHICIDES OF AUSTRALIA, 



species of anthicwf having a short robust form, moniliform an- 

 tenna, and a distinctly bilobed thorax. Erichson has marked one 

 from Tasmania, (which La Ferte considers, however, to be iden- 

 tical or nearly so with a European form T. compressicolUs.) 



Sp. 16. T. vinctus. Erichs. 



Pubescens, rufo testaceus ; thorace latiusculo cordato ; elytris 



striato-punctatis, fascia pone medium nigra. 

 Long Ij lin. 

 Tasmania. 

 The original insect is in the Berlin Museum. I have not seen 

 the species. The thorax is transverse, lightly canaliculate on the 

 back, and impressed at the base ; the feet flavous. The black 

 fascia on the elytra alone appears to separate it from T. com- 

 l^ressicollis. 



Genus VII. Anthicus. Payk. 



The genus Anthiciis is by far the largest of the whole family, 

 at least in point of number. It includes all those which have the 

 head free, the antenna inserted on the lateral edges of the head, 

 the thorax rounded in front, and more or less strongly contracted 

 posteriorly, but seldom bilobed ; the thighs only moderately if at 

 all enlarged, and the intercoxal plate triangular. Most of the 

 species are subject to very great variations in the size and shape 

 of the spots on tlie elytra, so that the shape of spots or of fasciae 

 on the elytra, or even their presence or absence, can never be 

 absolutely depended upon. The colour of the 'thorax and of the 

 antennie and feet, and of the ground-work of the elytra is, how- 

 ever, generally constant. 



La Ferte has, for the sake of convenient arrangement, divided 

 the whole genus into four great sections, distinguished by the 

 degree of contraction and convexity of the thorax. These are 

 again subdivided into eighteen separate groups, some of which 

 are not represented in this countiy. The arrangement is 

 probably a merely artificial one ; yet it has its conveniences, and 

 is therefore a considerable assistance in the study of the genus. 

 I shall therefore follow it as closely as possible, although I feel 



