Anthicus subquadraticollis, n.sp. 



Reddish-eastaneous, legs and antennae slightly paler, elytra flavous with a 

 large, circular subapieal spot, and the margins from about the middle to near 

 the apex black or blackish, the markings sometimes conjoined. Upper surface 

 with short, pale pubescence, indistinct on head and prothorax. 



Head subtriangular, hind angles rather prominent but rounded off, base 

 rather strongly incurved to middle; with dense and sharply defined punctures, 

 but almost absent from a shining median line on apical half. Eyes fairly large, 

 extending more than half-way to base. Antennae moderately long and sub- 

 moniliform. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, apical angles less rounded 

 than usual, sides regularly and (for the genus) rather feebly diminishing in width 

 posteriorly, notched at extreme base; punctures much as near base of head. 

 Elytra much wider than prothorax, shoulders moderately rounded, sides parallel 

 to near apex; punctures much as on prothorax, becoming smaller, but still sharply 

 defined posteriorly. Intercoxal process of abdomen narrow and triangular. Legs 

 moderately long. Length, 1.75 — 2.5 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Townsville (A. M. Lea). 



A subopaque species (owing to very fine shagreening), at first glance ap- 

 parently of the A. brevicollis group, but prothorax less strongly narrowed pos- 

 teriorly than is usual in the genus, so that its base is hardly one-thii-d narrower 

 than its apex. Excluding the eyes, the head appears conspicuously triangxilar, its 

 median line is distinct in front on all the specimens, and on some of them is 

 traceable, but very narrow, to the base. The smaller specimens have the front 

 tarsi wider, and the apical segment of abdomen less evenly convex than on the 

 larger ones, and are probably males; one of them has the abdomen rather deeply 

 infuscated. I know of no closely allied species. 



Anthicus eminens, n.sp. 



Black; head and under surface dark red, coxae and tarsi flavous, antennae 

 dull red, the basal and some of the apical joints blackish or deeply infuscated. 

 Moderately clothed with not very short pubescence, and with numerous long, 

 suberect hairs; the elytra with two pubescent fasciae (the derm beneath them 

 somewhat reddish) : one near the base, the other beyond the middle. 



Head rather short, hind angles strongly rounded, base straight in middle; 

 with crowded and somewhat asperate punctures. Eyes rather small and very 

 prominent, distinctly nearer antennae than base. Antennae moderately long. 

 Prothorax longer than wide, more convex than usual, sides strongly rounded near 

 apex and strongly narrowed to base, distinctly notched near base; with crowded 

 punctures, somewhat rougher than on head. Elytra much wider than prothorax, 

 shoulders gently rounded, sides feebly dilated to beyond the middle, with a trans- 

 verse depression (supporting the fii'st fascia) near base; punctures moderately 

 large and sharply defined even at apex, but much less crowded than on prothorax. 

 Intercoxal process of abdomen narrow and triangular. Legs moderately long. 

 Length, 2.5 mm. 



ifab.— Queensland : Coen River (W. D. Dodd). 



With two pubescent fasciae on the elytra much as on A. hryanti, but head 

 and prothorax with much coarser punctures, elytra with sharply defined ones (on 

 hryanti they are much sparser and scarcely visible), head entirely red, etc. The 

 head and prothorax are opaque ; from some directions the hind angles of the 

 former appear to be shining, owing to the punctures there being sparser than 

 elsewhere. On a second specimen the prothorax is of the same dull red colour 

 as the head. 



