One specimen from Cairns is much smaller (2 mm.) than usual, and is 

 entirely pale, except for three feeble infuseations on each elytron. 



Anthicus scutellatus Lea. 



At first glance the type and other specimens of this species appear to be- 

 long to Form 7 of A. crassus, as the elytra, although hardly sub-opaque, are less 

 shining than is usual, but the prothoracic punctures are considerably larger, 

 coarser, and decidedly asperate, those on the head are also much coarser, and 

 occupy rtjore of the surface; the punctures are not as dense as on A. lurichis, 

 but are very much coarser. 



Anthicus xeeophilus Lea. 



On an occasional specimen of this species the head is considerably darker 

 than the prothorax, and on the elytra there is a fairly dark infuscation at the 

 base; the notch at the base of the head is more conspicuous on some specimens 

 than on others, and is always present. One specimen was taken at Port Wake- 

 field from a nest of ants of the genus Pheidole. 



Anthicus ingloeius Lea. 



The male of this species usually has a large, black, medio-lateral patch on 

 each elytron, the patch narrowly continued along the side, almost, in some cases 

 quite, to the apex (on some specimens the black space is so large that two small 

 fiavous spots are enclosed near the apex), the abdomen and metasternum are 

 black or blackish, and the femora are sometimes partly infuscated. It has the 

 conspicuously incurved tip of abdomen as in males of most species of, the A. 

 hrevicollis group, and in general appearance males look like large A. brevicollis 

 or A. crassipes, but the hind tibiae are only slightly bent, and are not at all 

 notched; from A. crassus it is distinguished by the shining elytra. It is a dry- 

 country species, occurring in many parts of the interior of Queensland, New 

 South Wales and South Australia. 



Anthicus geminatus Lea. 



The types of this species appear to represent a very rare form of a widely 

 distributed and variable species; the most abundant form is of a rather dingy 

 castaneo-flavous, with somewhat paler antennae, palpi and legs; its elytral mark- 

 ings are seldom sharply limited, and consist of a large infuscated or blackish 

 spot on each side of the middle, and nearer the sides than suture, but the two 

 almost conjoined, on some specimens, so as to appear as a fairly wide median 

 fascia, and a still more obscure apical spot; on very pale specimens the apical 

 spot is usually wanting; on dark specimens there is usually a vague infuscation 

 about the seutellum; the abdomen is usually pale, but on some Victorian and 

 Tasmanian specimens is dark, and occasionally the femora are partly infuscated. 

 The hind tibiae of the male are slightly longer than of the female, and the apical 

 half is somewhat deflected, more noticeably on some specimens than on others. 

 The elytral pubescence is fairly dense and not depressed, but somewhat curled. 

 On an almost equally common form the pubescence is quite fiat, the general 

 colour is darker, the markings are less sharply defined, the median and apical 

 spots are occasionally joined along the sides, and the abdomen and usually the 

 metasternum is black or blackish. On these darker specimens the punctures are 

 usually more sharply defined, although they are distinct to the apex on all the 



