498 ON AUSTRALIAN" ANTHICIDAE^ 



spots, almost touching tlie sides, but some distance from the suture, and with 

 the infuscation about the scutellum very faint. 



Anthicus puscotibialis, n.sp. 



Pale reddish-castaneons ; elj'tra black or blackish with a complete sub-basal 

 fascia, and an inteiTupted postmedian one, or two transverse spots, flavous; leg-s 

 pale castaneous or flavous, tibiae infuscated; antennae with apical half or more 

 infuscated; abdomen blackish, except for part of the basal segment. Elytra with 

 rather spai-se, depressed, pale pubescence, sparser on rest of upper surface; with 

 a few. short, scattered hairs. 



Head rather short, sides behind eyes parallel for a short distance, base 

 moderately rounded and not notched: with rather shaiisly defined and numerous 

 but small punctures in front, spai-ser and more in-eg-ular elsewhere. Eyes rather 

 small, medio-lateral and very prominent. Antennae moderately long, three or 

 four joints transverse. P'rothoras distinctly longer than wide, sides in front 

 strongly dilated and almost twice the width of base, strongly notched 

 near base, a distinct depression connecting the two notches across 

 disc, base with two obtuse elevations; punctures sparse and small, more 

 distinct about sub-basal depression than elsewhere. Elytra with shoulders slightly 

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

 twice that of the widest part of prothorax; with sharply defined but not very 

 large or crowded punctures near base, becoming much smaller posteriorly. Inter- 

 eoxal process of abdomen slightly wider than usual, the tip semicircular. Leg's 

 moderately long. Length, 2 — 2.25 mm. 



Hab. — Western Australia: Beverley (E. E. du Boulay), ^algoorlie (W. du 

 Boulay), Geraldton (A. M. Lea); South Australia: Port Lincoln (Kev. T. Black- 

 burn). 



A rather flat species. The pale sub-basal fascia is rather wide, much as on 

 A. unifasciatus and allied species, and is connected along the suture with the 

 base; the base itself is usually not as dark as the other dark parts of the elytra 

 and is sometimes but moderately infuscated (such specimens seem to approach 

 some forms of A. xeropJiilus, from which they differ in the head not notched at 

 base) ; the postmedian spots are somewhat obliquelj' placed and narrowed to- 

 wards the suture, which they never appear quite to reach, although on some 

 specimens the part separating them from the suture is rather slightly infuscated. 

 Of the thirteen specimens under examination two have the head slightly in- 

 fuscated, and of these one has the prothorax infuscated in front; all have the 

 tibiae conspicuously darker than the femora and tarsi. In the male the tip of 

 the abdomen is slightly notched, and the legs are slightly longer than in the 

 female. 



Anthicus acutibasis, n.sp. 



Chocolate-brown, some paii:s almost black; elytra with a sub-basal fascia 

 and two postmedian spots flavous, under surface reddish-eastaneous or fla.^'ous, 

 abdomen (except basal segment) blackish, antennae and legs flavous, knees and 

 sometimes parts of femora infuscated. With sparse pubescence and a few 

 straggling hairs. 



Head rather long, hind angles and base strongly rounded, *ith rather dense 

 and sharply deflned punctures; with a shining, imptmctate and almost continuous 

 median line that, posteriorly, appears as a pointed ridge. Eyes of moderate 

 size, much nearer antennae than base and very prominent. Antennae moderately 



