BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 
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Anthicus inornatus, n.sp. 
Elongate, narrow, feebly shining. Head dark reddish-brown, 
prothorax and elytra dark brownish-red, undersurface somewhat 
paler, legs and antenme testaceous-red. Elytra and abdomen not 
very densely covered with short pale pubescence; rest of body 
very sparsely clothed. Head extremely densely and somewhat 
rugosely punctate; prothorax, sterna and basal segment of abdo- 
men very densely and not minutely punctate; elytra densely 
punctate, punctures becoming feebler towards apex, abdominal 
segments — except basal — minutely, femora shallowly punctate. 
Head longer than wide, base rounded; eyes small, prominent, 
coarsely faceted, placed in front of the middle; antenna? inserted 
close to the eyes. Prothorax longer than wide, longer and about 
the width of the head, subcordate, apex slightly rounded, base 
constricted and truncate; an indistinct tubercle on each side at 
the base; median line feebly traceable at base and apex. Elytra 
not once and a quarter as long a-; head and prothorax com- 
bined, shoulders rounded, parallel-sided to near apex, or very 
feebly widening to about the middle, without depression. Legs 
slender; femora scarcely thickened; tibia? straight, minutely 
spurred at their apices; four anterior longer, the posterior as long 
as tarsi, basal joint of posterior tarsi as long as the others com- 
bined, intermediate as long as 2nd-3rd, anterior short. Length 
2Jr, width ^ mm. 
Hob. — North- West Australia (Macleay Museum). 
I do not know any species with which this very distinct one 
can be satisfactorily compared, 
Anthicus simulator, n.sp. 
Elongate, subdepressed, highly polished. Black; base of pro- 
thorax obscure piceous, each elytron with two small testaceous 
macula?, one near the shoulder transversely triangular, the other 
about a third from the apex, parallel-sided, directed a little 
obliquely towards and truncate near suture: these macuhe are 
sometimes indistinct (especially the posterior); lower surface of 
