BY A. M. LEA. 693 



than in most species of the genus. The legs and antennae are 

 sometimes so dark that they appear to be almost black. 



CossoNus coPTORHiNUS, nom.nov. 

 I have to propose this name as a substitute for C. ivijjvessi/rons 

 Lea,* that name having been previously used for an American 

 species of the genus, t 



Family CHRYSOMELID^. 



Cryptocephalus albopictus, n.sp. (Plate Ixxvi., fig.7). 



9. Black, elytra deep violet-blue; a spot on face, apex, and 

 sides of prothorax, and a spot on each side of base, most of 

 scutellum, a transverse subapical spot on each elytron, basal seg- 

 ment of abdomen, and sides of the others, hind femora, sixth 

 and seventh joints of antennae, and bases of third, fourth, fifth 

 and eighth, white or whitish. 



Head with dense punctures, in places mixed with striae. An- 

 tennae long; second, third, and fourth joints wide, and each longer 

 than the others. Prothorax strongly convex; with distinct, 

 irregularly distributed punctures. Scutellum, slightly wider than 

 long, apex rounded, base notched. Elytra oblong; with dense 

 punctures, becoming crowded towards sides, and very small pos- 

 teriorly. Sterna densely and rather coarsely punctured; middle 

 of mesosternum with small punctures, and transversely strigose. 

 Apical segment of abdomen with a large, round, circular fovea. 

 Length, ^\ mm. 



i/a6. —Victoria : Portland (H. W. Davey). 



The intercoxal process of the prosternum is subtriangularly 

 dilated at the apex, as in several species of Loxopleurus; but the 

 species is so different, in general appearance, from the others of 

 that genus, and so obviously allied to C. coelestis, with which it 

 would be associated in ray Table, that it has been referred to the 

 genus of the latter. It is an extremely distinct species, unlikely 

 to be confused with any previously described one, and is one of 

 Mr. Davey's finest captures. 



*Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1896, p. 3 18. 

 tBohera., Sch. Gen. Cure, iv., p. 1001. 



