BY A. M. LEA. 497 



some specimens is conspicuously dark, on others it is but slightly infuscated 

 about the scutellum; the sides of the abdomen are sometimes infuscated. The 

 elytral punctures are not sharply defined, even at the base. The sexual differences 

 of the leg's and abdomen are but slight. Specimens with the basal marking faint 

 rather strongly resemble A. xerophilus, but on that species the head and pro- 

 thorax are shining. 



AnTHICUS GLOBICEPS, n.sp. 



Pale reddish-eastaneous, elytra flavous with black or infuscated markings, 

 antennae and legs flavous, apical joints of the former more or less infuscated. 

 Upper surface with depressed, whitish pubescence, more distinct on elytra than 

 elsewhere. 



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

 notched; with dense and small, but in some lights rather sharply defined punc- 

 tures. Eyes comparatively large, medio-lateral and very prominent. Antennae 

 rather short, three or four of the subapical joints transverse. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, front sides strongly dilated and almost twice the width of 

 base, strongly notched near base; with dense and small punctures, becoming 

 larger in a feeble sub-basal depression. Elytra elongate, much wider than pro- 

 thorax, shoulders slightly rounded, sides almost parallel to near apex; punctures 

 fairly dense and small, becoming scarcely visible posteriorly. Intercoxal pro- 

 cess of abdomen short and gently rounded. Legs rather thin. Length, 2 — 2.25 

 mm. 



Haft.— Queensland; Townsville (F. P. Dodd), Cairns District (E. Allen and 

 A. M. Lea), Stewart River (W. D. Dodd). 



At first glance apparently belonging to A. mimetes but the head and pro- 

 thorax are not opaque, the hind angles of the former are completely rounded 

 off, and the punctures are rather more sharply defined; the shining prothorax 

 also at once disting-uishes the species from A. pallipes, some forms of which 

 have very similar elytral markings. Structurally it is close to A. myrteus and 

 the elytral markings are in almost exactly similar positions, but is much brighter, 

 the head slightly smaller and with larger eyes. Prom A. geminatus it differs in 

 the squarer shoulders, shorter head and considerably larger eyes. A. monilis 

 is a more convex species, with stronger punctures, head larger and eyes much 

 smaller. A. nitidissimus has a decidedly narrower prothorax and longer head, 

 with smaller eyes. The elytra have a black or blackish median fa.-jcia and an 

 apical patch much as on mimetes, and usually a dark patch on each side of the 

 base, but occasionally the latter are scarcely traceable; those without the basal 

 infuscations rather closely resemble A. xeropMliis, but the head is not notched 

 at the base. One specimen has the median fascia and apieal patch larger than 

 usual, and connected along the sides and suture, so that a fairly large, pale, 

 transverse spot is enclosed on each elytron, at about the apical third; on another 

 the median fascia is broken up into two transverse, disconnected spots, and the 

 apieal spot appears as two, owing to the suture and tips being narrowly pale. 

 The head is sometimes moderately infuscated; the four apieal segm'ents of abdo- 

 men are usually infuscated or black, but occasionally are no darker than the 

 metasternum. On one specimen, from Cairns, the elytral markings are all re- 

 duced to feeble infuscations, although the median fascia is continuous. 



Six specimens (from Darwin, W. K. Hunt) are smaller and paler than 

 usual (although the four apieal segments of abdomen are dark) with the elytra 

 less parallel-sided, the median fascia reduced to two obtusely-pointed, transverse 



