Notes on Australian Coleoptera. 101 
dark blue; parts of the mouth and base of the antenne 
brown. | 
This beautiful little insect was found by Mr. Thouzet near 
Rockhampton. 
Note.—This insect is very nearly allied to one of the 
Indian sorts that have been wrongly united with Cyano- 
cephala, but differs by the white posterior spot of the elytra 
being a short longitudinal line, and not a rounded one. 
ANASIS. 
Mentum emarginated, with a feeble but inflated tooth in 
the centre; the wings of the mentum very short and broad, 
rounded at the apex; mandibule rather short, arched, pointed; 
labrum transversal, ciliated ; palpi maxillary with their two 
terminal articles large, long, the third embracing the base of 
the last, which is oval or rather pointed at the extremity ; 
the last of the labial rather large, oval, and pointed; antennz 
filiform, as long as the head and thorax together; the first 
article long (of the length of the two following together), the 
second short, the third much longer than the following, the 
others almost cylindrical; head rather large, oval, with the eyes 
prominent, and forming behind a rather long neck; thorax 
much narrower than the head, fusiform, rather inflated in 
the middle; scutellum small, triangular, elongate; elytra 
much broader than the thorax, depressed, parallel, truncated 
behind, and a little shorter than the abdomen; legs rather 
long ; slender anterior thighs, rather inflated near the knees; 
tibize entire, slender at the base, increasing in size towards 
the tarsi; these long, slender, their first article longer than 
the following, the fifth the largest of all; anterior tarsi 
thicker, almost cylindrical, the first and fifth articles long 
and about equal, the others short, the second triangular, and 
the two following rather cordiform ; claws simple. 
This genus comes very near to Odacantha, of which it has 
the form. 
Anasis Howittii: length 4’; of a bronzed brown; head 
black; thorax covered with strong puncturations and having 
a longitudinal sulcate on each side; it has also a longitudinal 
sulcate in the middle; elytra with punctate stricze ; legs, 
palpi, and antennze, yellow. 
From Geelong, in the colony of Victoria; found on a 
flower, and is in Dr. Howitt’s collection. 
