12 DESCRIPTION OF ANTHICIDES OF AUSTRALIA, 



Group IV. 



Thoi'ax auteriorly transversely-globose, contracted towards 

 the base, the posterior sides slightly inflated ; the base generally 

 very minutely tubercled. 



To this group several Australian species are referable. 



Sp. 18. A. pulcher. 

 Ferrugineus subtiliter punctatus depressus, antennis flavis 

 articulis 7 — 10 moniliformibus ; elytris piceis fasciis duabus 

 latis flavis notatis, apicibus rotnndatis ; pedibus flavis. 

 Long. .09. 



Gawler ; South Australia. 

 The fasciae occupy the greater part of the surface of the 

 elytra, and are often separated at the suture. The whole 

 insect is very depressed. The thoracic tubercles are very 

 distinct. The species appears to approach A. dehilis from Egypt, 

 and belongs to that division of the group, with elongated sub- 

 parallel and flattened elytra. 



Sp. 19. A. bomiidiodes. La Ferte. 

 AntliicMS strichis, Erichsen. 

 Niger nitidus glaber ; thorace pone medium valde compresso ; 

 elytris maculis duabus altera humerali altera pone medium 

 roinuta, flavo-testaceis, antennis pedibusque fuscis, tarsis 

 pallidis. ^ 



Long. .18 ; (? .08. an error here in the description of La Ferte. ? ) 

 Adelaide ; South Australia. 

 I have received from Mrs. Kreusler, from Gawler, two 

 specimens which agree with the above description, except in 

 regard to the size of the insect and the colour of the elytra. I 

 hesitate to regard them as undescribed. The elytra on my speci- 

 mens are very convex and oval. 



Sp. 20. A. comptus. La Ferte. 

 Piceus, nitidus, capite nigro ; thorace basi ferrugineo ibique 

 subtilissime tuberculato ; elytrorum fasciis duabus, anten- 

 narum basi tarsisque flavis. 



