Rey. H. Clark on new Australian Phytophaga. 249 
Fam. Crioceride. 
Genus Criocrrts, Geoff. 
1. C. fusco-maculata, n. sp. 
C. oblongo-parallela, punctata, flava, nitida; capite nigro, antice pubes- 
cente, ad basin undique oblique foveolato: thorace subquadrato, ad 
latera coarctate, ad basin modice arcuato, sparsim et tenuiter punctato ; 
scutello minuto, elongato-triangulari, fusco: elytris parallelis, convexis, 
leviter punctato-striatis (punctis sat distinctis, distantibus, apicem 
versus et ad marginem obsoletis) ; macula undique inter striam 5tam et 
medium marginem, nigra, marginem haud attingente, subcirculari : 
corpore subtus fusco-nigro, abdominis segmentis rufo-fuscis ; pedibus 
nigris, femoribus flavis; antennis nigris. 
Long. corp. 4 lin., lat. 1} lin. 
A species nearly related to C. nigripes, Fab., and to be placed in 
the subsection of the genus that contains our European merdigera 
and 12-punctata: it differs from nigripes, Fab. (which also is found 
in New Holland), not only by its coloration (the head being black 
instead of flavous, the hue of its elytra darker and less bright flavous, 
and its two circular markings), but also in structure: of the thorax 
the front is not so broad, and the medial constriction not so angular, 
the surface also is not levigate, but finely punctate; in the elytra 
the punctures are deeper, larger, and more widely separated. 
I received two examples from Damel’s collection, taken by him in 
New South Wales, where doubtless further research will discover other 
species that belong to this, M. Lacordaire’s Subgroup iii. of the genus. 
In the collections of Mr. Baly and Rev. H. Clark. 
2. OC. multipunctata, n. sp. 
C. oblonga, parallela, crebre et fortiter punctata, rufo-flava, nitida: capite 
inter oculos obscure transverse depresso, rufo-ferrugineo, labro et apice 
nigris: thorace subquadrato, lateribus ad medium vel potius pone 
medium valde constrictis, ad basin transverse fortiter foveolato, im- 
punctato; scutello subtriangulari, nitido: elytris parallelis, fortiter et 
crebre punctato-striatis: corpore subtus, pedibus anticis et mediis an- 
tennisque fuscis, antennarum art. basalibus 4, genibus mediis pedibusque 
anticis flavis vel rufo-flavis. 
Long. corp. 24 lin., lat. ¢ lin. 
A species that will be placed at the end of the fourth subgroup of 
Lacordaire’s arrangement. I received a single specimen from Damel’s 
collection, taken by him in New South Wales. 
Lert 
be 
