collected in Tasmania and Australia. 
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base. Legs elongate, slender, the tarsi long and thin. Length 2, 
breadth ^ mm. 
Hah. W. Australia — Troughton I. 
One specimen. This graceful little species belongs to 
tlie group Stenidius of Laferte^s third division of the 
genus. It is allied to A. tenuipes of the Mediterranean 
region^ but is more elongate than that insect_, and more 
parallel^ with longer legs and antennse, the head less 
dilated behind the eyes^ the latter more prominent. 
Other specimens have been sent to the British Museum. 
Anthicus excavatuSf n. sp. 
Short, rather broad, convex, very shining ; the head and pro- 
thorax varying in colour from f errugineo-testaceous to rufo-piceous ; 
the elytra testaceous, with the base, except at the suture, a broad 
transverse fascia a little beyond the middle — widening outwardly, 
and in some specimens reduced to a subquadrate patch on the disc 
of each elytron, — and a common ante-apical patch, sometimes 
narrowly divided at the suture, black or piceous ; the legs and 
antennae testaceous, the hind femora, except at the base and apex, 
piceous or fuscous, the other femora sometimes slightly infuscate in 
the middle ; the under surface varying in colour from testaceous to 
rufo-piceous ; the upper surface sparsely clothed with rather long, 
fine, yellowish-cinereous hairs, some of which are erect, the others 
decumbent. Head short, broad, subtriangular, very sparsely, finely 
punctate, with a broad smooth space down the middle, the eyes very 
large ; antennae short, slender, joints 9 and 10 a little longer than 
broad. Prothorax transverse, cordate, convex, as wide as the 
head, obliquely grooved at the sides behind, very sparsely, finely 
punctate. Elytra short, a little rounded at the sides, nearly twice 
as wide as the prothorax, truncate at the base, sparsely, finely 
punctate. Legs short. Length 2^-2|, breadth 1 mm. 
Hah. N.W. Australia — Adelaide Eiver; W. Australia 
— Fremantle. 
Several examples from each locality. This insect is of 
about the same size and shape as A. haiidinensis, but it is 
much more shining and more sparsely punctured ; the head 
is broader, the thorax is obliquely grooved at the sides 
behind, and the pubescence is sparser and more erect. 
The post- median elytral fascia is sometimes broadly 
interrupted at the suture, so as to leave a subquadrate 
