494 ON AUSTRALIAN ANTHICIDAE, 



quite useless for flight. On one specimen the head and dark parts of elytra are 

 almost black. Of the elytral fasciae the first occupies, but is not confined to, the 

 sub4)asal depression, being dilated on the sides (the dark basal space in front of 

 it is triangular about the scutellum, and notched on each side before the shoulder) ; 

 the second fascia is at the apical third, is not interrupted by the suture', and on 

 two specimens is connected by a narrow sutural vitta with the apex; as a result 

 on these the elytra appear to have a large dark spot on each side of the apex; 

 these specimens also have the margins of the elytra narrowly pale throughout. 

 The male differs from the female in having the abdomen smaller, its tip with a 

 small triangular notch, the antennae and legs slightly longer, and the front tarsi 

 somewhat dilated. 



Anthicus macrops, n.sp. 



Dark chocolate-brown, head and abdomen almost black, prothoras obscurely 

 reddish at base, elytra with a whitish sub-basal fascia; antennae flavous, the 

 apical joints infuscated; legs slightly infuscated, the coxae and tarsi paler. 

 Elytra with very short, sparse, depressed pubescence; rest of upper surface 

 glabrous or almost so. 



Head almost circular, hind angles and base evenly rounded, the latter not 

 notched; punctures minute and sparse, scarcely visible on basal half. Eyes 

 large, scarcely more distant from base than from antennae. Antennae moderately 

 long, eighth to tenth joints slightly transverse. Pro thorax strongly dilated near 

 apex, strongly constricted near base; with a transverse, sub-basal depression, 

 containing rather dense and sharply defined punctures, elsewhere very minutely 

 punctate; a feeble elevation on each side of base. Elytra with shoulders slightly 

 rounded, sides gently dilated to beyond the middle, where the width is fully 

 twice that of the widest part of prothorax; punctures sparse and very minute. 

 Intereoxal process of abdomen short and obtuse. Legs moderately long. Length, 

 2.25 mm. 



Hob. — Queensland: Emerald (A. M. Lea). 



A second specimen (from Dalby, Mrs. E. H. Hobler) is paler than the type, 

 its head and abdomen are no darker than the dark parts of the elytra, and its 

 prothorax is of a dingy red, becoming paler at the base. The intereoxal process 

 is not triangular, although it appears so at first glance, as the metasternum in 

 front of it is triangularly notched. The sub-basal fascia is rather narrow, ter- 

 minates just before the basal third, and is slightly longer than the dark space 

 in front of it. The species is structurally close to a bif asciate one identified by 

 King as A. comptus, but has a single elytral fascia as on many other species, 

 which although at first glance apparently all forms of one, are really structurally 

 distinct, and their more salient features may be briefly noted as follows : — 



A. imifasciatus King: Eyes of moderate size and prominent, base of head 

 evenly rounded. 



A. constricfus Macl. Eyes smaller than on A. macrops, but still of fairly 

 large size, antennae with fourth to tenth joints of even width, although decreas- 

 ing in length to tenth (this may be a male feature only) ; on macrops the fourth 

 is the thinnest of all the joints, the others feebly increasing in width to tenth 

 (as on most species of the genus). 



A. imicinctus Champ. Base of head suddenly dilated so that its widest part 

 projects beyond the outer edges of the eyes (in Champion's figure this is not 

 shown as prominently as on a cotype received from him) ; the eyes themselves 

 rather small and prominent. 



A. adelaidae Champ. I have not seen a specimen of this species; it is 



