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(basal, median and subapical), and are also sprinkled over the 

 apex. 



S. Australia ; basin of Lake Eyre. 



AXTHREXUS. 



A. Mnsceorum, Fab. This species is recorded as Australian in 

 Mr. Masters' Catalogue. I have not seen an Australian example 

 of it. 



A. varins, Fab. Far too plentiful in S. Australian collections ;. 

 also on flowers. It is not mentioned in Mr. Masters' Catalogue. 

 A. cmstralis, Hope. I have taken in various localities, on 

 fiowers, an Anthrenus which agrees fairly well Avith the very brief 

 description of this insect. The only discrepancy is that the elytra 

 are (not black but) dark brown, becomingpaler towards the apex; 

 one example has very dark brown elytra, which might almost be 

 called blackish, and it may perhaps vary to black. It has the 

 three wavy fascia of white pilosity as described. It has abdominal 

 sulci for the reception of the hind legs, and eleven-jointed an- 

 tennae with a three-jointed club. 



A. ocellifer, sp. nov. Ovalis, lateribus parum rotundatis ; confer- 

 tissime squamis nigris fulvis et albis vestitus, supra squamis 

 fulvis et albis submaculatim dispersis his in illis mediis 

 positis, subtus squamis albis superficiem totam (nisi abdo- 

 minis latera et apicem fulvo-squamosa) tegentibus ; niger, 

 pedibus rufis ; crebre sat subtiliter punctulatus ; antennis 

 11-articulatis, clava 3-articulata ; pedibus in sulcis receptis. 

 Long., H— Ul.; lat., I— fl. 

 The black fulvous and white scales are on the prothorax mixed 

 confusedly ; on the elytra they take the form of fulvous spots on 

 a black ground, the middle part of the fulvous spots being white; 

 there are seven or eight spots on each elytron. I do not know 

 any other Anthrenus presenting the following characters in com- 

 bination : — Antenna? eleven-jointed, with a three-jointed club, all 

 the legs received in sulci, antenna? entirely black, legs entirely 

 red, ventral segments without any black sj^ots ; body densely 

 scaly. 



S. Australia ; on flowers. 

 A. Flindersi, sp. nov. Ovalis ; obscure nigro- et griseo-hirtus ; 

 niger, antennis totis tibiis tarsisque rufis, elytris apice rufes- 

 centibus ; crebre sat subtiliter (prothoracis disco minus 

 crebre magis subtiliter) punctulatus ; sulcis antennariis valde 

 profundis, fere transversim positis, externe subrotundatis ; 

 segmento ventrali basali utrinque transversim sulcato. 

 Maris (?) antennarum clava 3 articulata, articulis i-8 con- 

 junctis longitudine asquali, articulis 3-8 perbrevibus (7° et 8° 

 j)aullo latioribus) ; clava cylindrica, hujus articulo 2" quam 



