BY A. M. LEA. 485 



\-agne remnant of a median line may be seen on the front of the head, but not 

 on two others. 



AnTHICUS MELAS, n.Sp. 



Black, shining; base of femora, tibiae and tarsi more or less reddish. 



Head moderately long, sides parallel from eyes to hind angles, which are 

 gently rounded off, base scarcely visibly notched in middle, a few fairly distinct 

 punctures about a feeble impression each side in front, elsewhere very feeble. 

 Eyes small, prominent and much niearer antennae than base. Antennae feebly 

 dilated towards apex. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, front sides dilated 

 and about one-third wider than base, incurved near base; punctures scarcely 

 traceable. Elytra much wider than prothorax, shoulders gently rounded, sides 

 almost parallel to near apex; with rather dense and small punctures, fairly 

 sharply defined about base, but becoming indistinct posteriorly. Legs rather 

 thin. Length, 2 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Vasse River (A. M. Lea). 



With small eyes distant from base, and general outlines of A. demissus and 

 A. glaber, but body - parts entirely black; the outlines are also somewhat as on 

 A. inornatus and A. piibipennis, but those species are opaque. The intereoxal 

 process of the abdomen is short and thin, with its tip rounded off, although at 

 the first glance it appeal's to be triangular. 



Anthicus post-tibialis,. n.sp. 



Elavous, apical three-fourths of elytra black, abdomen infuseated. Upper 

 surface almost glabrous. 



Head round and rather strongly convex, hind angles completely rounded off; 

 a few small punctures in front, but elsewhere without any. Eyes small, medio- 

 lateral and prominent. Antennae moderately long. Prothorax slightly longer 

 than wide, rather convex, sides rather strongly rounded on apical half and sud- 

 denly incurved near base; almost impunctate. Elytra much wider than pro- 

 thorax, shoulders gently rounded, sides almost parallel to near apes, a feeble 

 transverse depression near base; punctures sparse and minute. Intereoxal pro- 

 cess of abdomen short and obtusely pointed. Hind tibiae stout. Leng-th, 2.25 ~ 

 mm. 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Darwin (W. D. Dodd). 



Very distinct by the hind tibiae, which are almost twice as stout as the 

 middle ones, and quite as stout as their supporting femora, the hind tarsi are 

 also decidedly wider than usual. The two colours of the elytra ai'e sharply con- 

 trasted, the hind femora and tibiae, middle tibiae and front knees are darker 

 than the rest of the legs. The antennae are thin, with the maximum width of 

 each joint, after the first, almost equal thi'oughout, no joint being distinctly 

 transverse, although the seventh — tenth are each about as wide as long. The 

 type is probably a male. 



A specimen from Queensland (Cairns, F: P. Dodd), which is certainly a 

 female (its ovipositor with two terminal setae is protruding) possibly belong-s 

 to this species; its hind tibiae axe even stouter (they are slightly stouter than 

 their supporting femora), and the antennae are distinctly shorter and wider, 

 the joints after the second slightly but reg-ularly increase in width, with the eighth- 

 tenth distinctly transverse, and beyond the fourth they are distinctly infuseated 

 (entirely pale on the type), the head and prothorax are of a dingy but rather 

 pale red, and the base of the elytra is but obscurely paler than the rest, the 

 transverse impression near its base is rather deeper, and on each side of the 



