262 Mr. G. C. Champion on the Heteromerous Coleojptera 
much wider than the prothorax, closely, moderately finely punctate, 
the punctures becoming still finer towards the apex. Legs rather 
short, slender. Length If, breadth | mm. 
Hob. N. W. Australia — Adelaide River. 
One specimen only of this peculiar little species has 
been received. In the armature of the sides of the thorax 
it approaches the Tropical American A. spinicolUs, A. 
sequinocfialis, etc.; but it has the thorax transverse, and 
belongs to TJaferte^s second division of the genus. This 
is one of numerous interesting novelties obtained by 
Mr, Walker at Adelaide River. 
Anthicus floralis. 
Anthicus floralis (Payk.), Laferte, Monogr. Anthic._, 
p. 150 j King, Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. W., ii., p. 17. 
Hah. Tasmania — Hobart and Launceston. 
This cosmopolitan insect has been recorded from 
South Australia by King. 
Anthicus walkeri, n. sp. 
Elongate, narrow, rather depressed, shining; black, the elytra with 
two transverse pale yellow fasciae — one, narrow, a little below the 
base, the other, still narrower, at about one-third from the apex, 
neither reaching the suture; the antennae testaceotis; the legs piceous, 
with the knees, the apex of the tibiae, and the tarsi testaceous ; the 
upper surface, a smooth median line on the head excepted, densely, 
exceedingly minutely punctate, and thickly clothed with a very 
fine sericeous pubescence, which is brown upon the dark portion of 
the disc of the elytra and cinereous elsewhere. Head subquadrate, 
moderately convex, parallel at the sides behind the eyes, the hind 
angles rounded ; the eyes small, prominent, distant from the base 
of the head ; antennas about half the length of the body, slender, 
joint 10 about as broad as long. Prothorax much longer than 
broad, slightly narrower than the head, a little flattened on the 
disc, transversely convex in front ; the sides rapidly and obliquely 
converging posteriorly from about the anterior third, slightly 
dilated at the base. Elytra rather short, almost parallel in front, 
slightly widening to the middle, subtruncate at the base, much wider 
that the prothorax. Legs slender, moderately elongf^.te. Length 2|, 
breadth f mm. 
Hah. W. Australia — Cape Leeuwin. 
