490 ON AUSTRALIAN ANTHICIDAE, 



Anthicus acanthodeeeSj n.sp. 



Dark red, antennae, palpi and legs paler, prothorax blackish, elytra with a 

 black median fascia. Elytra moderately densely clothed with suberect, pale 

 pubescence, sparser and depressed elsewhere. 



Head (excluding eyes) subtriang-ular, hind angles moderately rounded, base 

 distinctly bilobed; with a narrow, shining, continuous median line, ending in a 

 basal notch; with crowded but rather sharply defined punctures. Eyes small, 

 very prominent, distant from base. Antennae thin but not very long, sub- 

 moniliform. Prothorax longer than wide, each side (at its widest) with an acute 

 tubercle projecting outwards at right angles, a short distance behind it a feeble 

 angulation, and then strongly narrowed to near base; punctures even more 

 crowded than on head; with a vagiae trace of a median line near base. Elytra 

 much wider than prothorax, shoulders gently rounded, sides parallel to beyond 

 the middle; with dense (but not crowded) sharpily defined punctures, becoming 

 smaller posteriorly, but distinct even at apex. Intercoxal process of abdomen 

 briefly triangular. Leg's moderately long. Length, 2.75 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cunnamulla (H. Hardcastle). 



Readily distinguished from all other Australian species of the genus except 

 A. scabricollis, A. tridentatus and A. scydmaenoides by the conspicuously armed 

 prothorax. Erom scabricollis and scydmaenoides it is distinguished by the uni- 

 fasciate elytra, with square shoulders and from the description of tridentatus by 

 the unifasciate elytra and prothorax with less than three tubercles on each side. 

 In some lights the elytral pubescence appears golden. 



Anthicus teivittipennis, n.sp. 

 ■ Piceous-brown, head black or blackish, under surface usually paler than pro- 

 thorax; elytra flavous, its base, apex, sides, suture and a dilated postmedian spot 

 (or abbreviated fascia) on the suture more or less deeply infuscated; antennae 

 with basal half or less flavous, the rest infuscated; palpi and legs flavous, the 

 knees slightly infuscated. Elytra rather densely clothed with short, pale 

 pubescence, rest of upper surface almost glabrous. 



Head rather short, hind angles moderately rounded off, base bilobed; surface 

 very finely shagreened and with rather distinct but irregularly distributed punc- 

 tures. Eyes large, extending more than half-way to base. Antennae rather thin, 

 none of the joints (except the ninth and tenth in the female) transverse. Pro- 

 thorax fiat, sides strongly rounded near apex, and oblique (with a moderate sub- 

 basal incurvature) to base, median line faintly impressed; surface shagreeaed, 

 and with rather dense but not sharply defined punctures. Elytra much wider 

 than prothorax, shoulders slightly rounded, sides gently dilated to beyond the 

 middle; with fairly dense and sharply defined punctures, of moderate size near 

 base, becoming indistinct posteriorly. Intercoxal process of abdomen acutely 

 triangular, apical segment smaller and less evenly convex in male than in female. 

 Legs moderately long. Length, 3 . 25 — 4 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns (E. Allen). 



A flat species with head and prothorax opaque and elytral markings longi- 

 tudinal; it is not close to any other described Australian one, but some specimens 

 strikingly resemble Dromius humeralis (of the Carabidae) in miniature. Of 

 seven specimens taken by Sir. Allen six have the postmedian enlargement of the 

 sutural infuscation rather large, and with faint infuscations connecting it with 

 the dark margins, and three of these have the apical infuscation more extensive 

 than on the other three; the seventh specimen has the elytra dark (almost black), 

 except for a large, round, flavous spot on each side near the apex. 



