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 meeting on suture, and the tips black or blackish, clothed 

 with extremely short, pale, depressed pubescence. 



Head moderately wide and lightly convex ; with small 

 scattered punctures; base feebly bilobed above neck. Eyes 

 rather large and prominent. Antennae rather long and thin, 

 passing middle coxae. Prothorax rather flat, slightly 

 longer than the greatest width, which is near apex and 

 about once and one-half the width of base, sides constricted 

 near base, a narrow transverse impression at base ; with dense 

 and small punctures. Elytra about twice the width of base 

 of prothorax, sides feebly dilated to middle; with crowded 

 and small but sharply denned punctures, gradualty 

 becoming smaller posteriorly. Legs long and thin; basal 

 joint of hind tarsi almost as long as the rest combined. 

 Length, 2-J-2§ mm. 



Hab. — South Australia : Oodnadatta (Blackburn's collec- 

 tion) ; Queensland: Cunnamulla (H. Hardcastle) ; Western 

 Australia: Geraldton (A. M. Lea). Type, I. 7962. 



In general appearance very close to patdulus, but with 

 much denser and quite sharply defined (although small) 

 elytral punctures; monilis, to which also it looks very close, 

 is rather more convex, with slightly larger and sparser 

 punctures, and less prominent eyes ; there are also several 

 closely allied but at present undescribed species. The median 

 spot6 on the elytra are rather wide near the sides (which they 

 do not touch) and are narrowed and diluted towards the 

 suture (across which they never seem to meet) ; the derm 

 between the median and apical spots is sometimes quite as 

 pale as the legs; on some specimens there is a slight infuscation 

 about the scutellum. 



Anthicus australis, King, var. 



Some specimens from Oodnadatta, Leigh Creek, Murray 

 River, and Grange, appear to belong to this species, but differ 

 from the typical form in having the pale elytral fasciae much 

 larger; on the normal form of australis the pale post-median 

 fascia is considerably shorter than the black median portion 

 (at most one-third the length), and is about half the length 

 of the black apical portion ; but on eight specimens of this 

 variety the pale postmedian fascia near the suture is fully as 

 long (on some specimens it is decidedly longer) a6 the black 

 median portion and distinctly longer than the black apical 

 portion ; the pale subbasal fascia is also much larger than on 

 the typical form ; the head on most of these specimens has a 

 narrow (but distinct) shining median line, that is absent from 

 the typical form. 



