356 Records of the S.A. Museum 



politnhini Macl. liollandiae Fab. 



rotuiidiim Westw. nov(i(holl<iit(Ji(ir Boi. 



tibiale Macl. piceus Hojie. 



Tcs.serodon angnlatns Westw. variolosus Macl. 



gestroi Laiisb. Tliyrco'js korslunvi Blacki). 



CANTHONOSOMA MACLEAYI Har. (Cephalodesmius), 1868. 



CanthoHosonui nidstcrsi Macl., 1871. 

 Homodesmius haroldi Sharp, 1873. 



Plate vi, figs. 1, 2. 



Macleay described the front legs of Vunthonosoma as without tarsi, and this 

 i'; tile ease with most of the specimens of (\ nidsfersi l)efore me, I)ut this is 

 certainly dne to wear or accident, as on one co-type the right tarsus is present, on 

 another both are present ; the front tibiae often have the appearance as of being 

 worn down, and the projection on each side of the median notch of tlie clypens 

 also- diminishes in size with nsage ; on Avorn specimens the bronzy gloss disappears 

 and most of the setae of the upper-surface. Two specimens before mc^ are from 

 Rockhampton, and agree witli the description of Iloinodesmius haroldi, which I 

 can only regard as a synonym; the species, however, was first described as 

 CepJialodcsmius macleayi. 



CANTHONOSOMA CASTELNAUI Har. (Cephalodesmius). 



Plate vi, figs. 3, 4. 



Tavo females from Pine Mountain (Queensland) were labelled in the Simson 

 collect io)i as CcphaJodesniius castelnaui, and apparently correctly so. Several 

 males from Capella (Queensland) differ from them in having the sides (epip- 

 leurae) of the elytra so compressed that from above each elytron appears to be 

 bounded l)y a strongly elevated and rather narrow ridge. The small shining 

 tubercles on the prothorax are more conspicuous than on the female, and the 

 metasternum has an ol)tuse tubercle in front. 



CANTHONOSOMA PLANUM Sharp (Homodesmius). 



This species(^) was not recorded in Masters" Catalogue, and evidently also 

 (l)Sharp, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1873, p. 37. 

 belongs to Canthonosoma. 



