Anthicus macellus, n.sp. 



Of a rather pale red, bead somewhat darker, abdomen deeply infuscated, 

 elytra blackish, with four large, flavous spots, placed so as to form two inter- 

 rupted fasciae, leg-s and palpi flavous. With very short, pale pubescence, more 

 distinct on elytra than on the rest of the upper surface. 



Head long, hind angles and base moderately rounded, the latter not notched; 

 with a feebly shining and narrow median line. Eyes small, medio-lateral and 

 prominent. Antennae long and thin. Prothoras considerably longer than wide, 

 sides strongly rounded near apex, and strongly incurved near base, base about 

 two-thirds the width at the dilated sides, with two very feeble elevations; median 

 line faintlj' impressed and short. Elytra much wider than prothorax, shoulders 

 gently rounded, sides feebly dilated to beyond middle; punctures scarcely visible. 

 Legs rather long and thin. Length, 2 mm. 



Hab. — Northern Queensland (Blackburn's collection). 



An unusually narrow, depressed species, with head, prothorax and part of 

 elytra opaque, owing to density of minute punctures, these being scarcely visible 

 under a hand lens. The elji;ral spots are shaped much as on A. strictus, but the 

 sub-basal ones are posthumeral instead of humeral; the two species, however, 

 have little in common. The sub-basal spots are dilated outwardly and touch the 

 sides but not the suture, and are scarcely triangnilar, the space between them and 

 the base is of a dingier red than the head, beyond them the derm is of a rather 

 shining black, the postmedian spots are large, of irregular shape, and are nar- 

 rowly separated at the suture; near them on the sides the derm is pale, so that, 

 from directly above, there appear to be four postmedian spots, appearing as a 

 thrice interrupted fascia. 



Ajs^thicus jucundus, n.sp. 



Piceous-red or piceous-brown, elytra with two flavous fasciae, parts of 

 femora and of tibiae deeply infuscated or blackish, rest of legs paler. Rather 

 sparsely pubescent, and with dark, straggling hairs. 



Head subovate, rather convex, hind angles and base strongly rounded, the 

 latter not notched; with small but rather sharply defined punctures, sparse on 

 basal half, more numerous and in parts dense, but not crowded in front. Eyes 

 rather small, very prominent, and distant from base. Antennae long and thin. 

 Prothoras longer than wide, sides dilated and strongly rounded near apex, 

 strongly notched near base; with dense and sharply defined punctures of moderate 

 size. Elytra elongate-elliptic, base very little wider than head across eyes, shoul- 

 ders strongly rounded, sides moderately dilated to about the middle, a shallow 

 transverse impression near base; with dense and fairly large punctures about 

 base, about as large on black median portion as on prothorax, but much less 

 crowded and becoming smaller but still sharply defined about apex. Intercoxal 

 process of abdomen acutely triangular. Legs moderately long. Length, 3 — 3.25 

 mm. 



Hab. — Tasmania: St. Patrick's River (Aug. Simson), Bruni Island (A. M. 

 Lea): Victoria (Blackburn's collection). 



In general appearance approaches some forms of A. palUpes, but the pro- 

 thorax is wider, with coarser punctures, front sides not conspicuously shining, 

 and the elytra with shoulders more rounded ofE. From A. rams and all its 

 varieties it is distinguished by the larger prothorax with much denser punctures, 

 and by the sub-basal depression on the elytra, the elytra are also smaller in pro- 

 portion, with less prominent shoulders, and cover but small remnants of wings. 



