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BY A. M. LEA. 495 



described as having large eyes but "a verj' fine long erect hair" in each puncture 

 of the upper surface; on both specimens of macrops the clotliing is evidently in 

 perfect condition, and is nowhere erect or long. 



A. poUtulus Lea. Eyes small, prominent, and distant from base; more of 

 body parts darker (usually black) than in the other forms. 



A. macrops, n.sp. Eyes large, occupying more than half the distance be- 

 tween antennae and base, and scarcely bulging beyond the even rotundity of the 

 sides, base strongly and evenly rounded, without defined hind angles. 



Anthicus osculans, n.sp. 



Head and most of under surface black or blackish, prothoras of a more or 

 less dull red, or reddish-brown, becoming paler about base; eltyra flavous, a 

 narrow basal space somewhat dilated about scutellum, a large median spot on 

 each, connected with the side, and the apical third chocolate-brown; antennae 

 reddish, from one to five apical joints infuscated; legs flavous, parts of femora 

 and sometimes of tibiae infuscated. 



Head rather short, hind angles and base strongly rounded, the latter not 

 notched; apical half with small and fairly numerous punctures, becoming very 

 faint posteriorlj'. Eyes of moderate size, medio-lateral and prominent. An- 

 tennae moderately long. Prothoras with sides strongly rounded and dilated in 

 front, strongly notched near base; a transverse depression with dense and dis- 

 tinct punctures near base, elsewhere with sparse and minute ones; two feeble 

 elevations at base. Elytra at base twice the width of prothorax, leaving part 

 of abdomen exposed, shoulders gently rounded, sides feebly dilated to beyond 

 the middle; punctures sparse and inconspicuous. Intercoxal process of abdomen 

 narrow and obtusely pointed. Legs rather thin. Length, 2 — 2.5 mm. 



Hab.— South Australia: Quorn (A. H. Elston), Murray River (H. S. 

 Cope). 



Appears to connect the groups about A. {Micrantliicus) pulcher and A. 

 myrteus ; from the latter it is distinguished by the slightly flatter form, more 

 parallel-sided elytra with the median fascia represented by a triangular spot on 

 each side, often hardly more than slight infuscations and with the tip of each 

 always distant from the suture; from puleher it is distinguished by the larger 

 head, with smaller eyes, the elytra with different marking's, slightly larger, and 

 covering ample wings, although leaving part of the abdomen exposed. On the 

 darker specimens the pale parts somewhat resemble a rough X and the dark 

 markings on each elytron are narrowly connected along the side; on the paler 

 ones the base is scarcely infuscated, and the medio-lateral spot on each is taint 

 or altogether absent, so that the only distinctively dark part of the elytra is the 

 apical third. Of nine specimens under examination seven have an exserted ovi- 

 positor, and I can find no distinctively masculine features on the other two. 



Anthicus melanostictus, n.sp. 



Reddish-castaneous, leg's and antennae paler, elytra with a fascia (some- 

 times divided into two large spots) and the apex black. Moderately clothed with 

 suberect pubescence, slightly longer on elytra than on head and prothorax. 



Head subovate, hind angles moderately rounded, base very feebly incurved 

 at middle; with rather dense and sharply defined punctures, but leaving an 

 almost impunctate median line. Eyes rather small, very prominent, much nearer 

 antennae than base. Antennae moderately long, eighth to tenth joints trans- 

 verse. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, sides strongly rounded and widest 

 near apex, thence almost evenly decreasing in width to base; punctures dense. 



