BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 481 



I Have lately received through the kindness of Air. Sloane an 

 example from Queensland (stated by Mr. Masters to appertain to 

 that species) which is clearly distinct from that named by Sir W. 

 Macleay, — and also various specimens taken in N. S. Wales and 

 elsewhere, a study of which points to the probability that the 

 name received from Sir W. Macleay was wrong, as all the 

 examples before me from localities North of about the latitude of 

 Sydney are like the Queensland specimen referred to above. It 

 differs from the form common in Southern Australia chiefly by 

 its much more strongly sculptured elytra, the punctures in the 

 striae especially being stronger and much less closely placed. I 

 am afraid therefore that the species I have hitherto called C. 

 punctipennis, Macl., is not that species (it is probably C. lophoides, 

 Chaud.). This is particularly unfortunate because in the descrip- 

 tions of two new species I have pointed out their differences' from 

 the common Southern Australian form under Sir W. Macleay 's 

 name for it. If this correction be right it will be necessary to 

 note that where the name C. panctipennis, Macl., occurs in the 

 descriptions of 0. fortis, Blackb., and C. obsoletus, Blackb., it is 

 not the true punctipennis that is referred to, but the species of 

 Cyclothorax (plentiful throughout Southern Australia) which is 

 distinguished from all its congeners (at any rate from all known 

 to me) except C. obsoletus, by the very fine close puncturation of 

 the scarcely impressed striae on its elytra. 



LAMELLICORNES. 



DlPHUCEPHALA ELEGANS, Sp.llOV. 



Robusta;splendide viridis, tibiis cupreo-micantibus; nitidissima; 

 subtus pilisalbis decumbentibus vestita; capite crebre fortius, 

 prothorace fortiter vix crebre, punctulatis ; hoc et longitudi- 

 naliter et transversim late sulcato, marginibus lateralibus 

 dente magno acuto ad medium instructis et pone apicem 

 fortiter crenulatis, angulis anticis fortiter productis acutis ; 

 scutello lsevi ; elytris crasse punctatis ; pygidio creberrime 

 vix aspere punctulato albido-pubescenti. 



[Long. 4i, lat. 2g lines. 



