382 Mr. G. J. Arrow on Rutdine Coleoptera 



N.W. Australia : Tambrey (W. H. Cusack). 



I have seen only three males of this species. It resembles 

 the preceding species, but is more brilliantly coloured, more 

 elongate in shape, with the elytra of the male (the female is 

 unknown) more produced at the extremities, and the 

 pygidium naked .except for a few scattered minute setae. 



* The lower surface of the body, the pygidium and tarsi, are 

 deep coppery green, the femora and tibiee are metallic 

 crimson and the upper surface orange, with a beautiful 

 golden lustre, showing greenish reflections, replaced upon the 

 elytra by a delicate pink tinge. With the exception of the 

 outer edges of the pronotum and elytra, all the margins are 

 narrowly outlined with greenish black. It is an unusually 

 elongate species, with a long acute inesosternal process, and 

 the produced apices of the elytra are minutely serrated. 

 The sculpture of the upper surface is almost as in A.pallidus. 



Anoplognathus antiquus, sp. n. (PI. VIII. figs. 2 & 3.) 



Obscuro brunneus, fronte, pronoto, scutello elytrisqne fulvis, clypeo 

 rufo, nigro-marginato, frontis medio nigro-vittato, pronoto 

 scutelloque anguste nigro-rnarginatis, illo ante medium nigro- 

 bipunctato ; ovalis, convexus, parum nitidus, undique griseo- 

 setosus, processu mesosternali brevi, obtuso ; clypeo crebre 

 rugoso, fronte grosse punctato, medio longitudinalitcr carinato, 

 vertice minus crebre punctato ; pronoto fortiter punctato, lateri- 

 bus densius, medio leviter sulcato, marginibus bene arcuatis, 

 angulis ant icis fere acutis, posticis obtusis, basi leviter trisinuato, 

 medio haud emarginato ; scutello bene punctato ; elytris grosse 

 ac rugose punctatis, haud productis, angulis suturalibus haud 

 rotundatis ; pygidio crebre rugoso : 



<5 , clypeo producto, autrorsum leviter angustato, margine antico 

 paulo dilatato, arcuato, reflexo. 



Long. 22-24 mm. ; lafc. max. 13 mm. 



New South Wales : Richmond River. 



This is a rather isolated species, with a superficial resem- 

 blance to A. velutinus, Boisd., but no close relationship to 

 any known species. Its very short blunt mesosternal pro- 

 cess ranges it with the fiavipennis group, with which it has 

 no other special point of resemblance. The brownish- 

 yellow colour of the upper surface, together with the 

 clothing of white setae and the coarse irregular sculpture, 

 produce an appearance more like that of A. velutinus than 

 any other, although the broadly produced clypeus of the 

 male renders the resemblance less in that sex. The pair of 



