Austomlian and Tasmanian Gryptoceplialides. 861 



Cryptocephalus salebrosus, Guer. 



As this species is compared v/ith Cadmus rugicollis, it is 

 probably allied to that species ; * but the description is too 

 imperfect to render its identification at all certain. 



Cryptocephalus h^matodes, Boi. 

 var. Cryptocephalus carnifcx, Suff. 



Re-described by Saunders (to whom only the female was 

 known) as a Diccnopsis. In the ordinary female of this 

 species the under-surface is dark red stained in places with 

 piceous ; in the ordinary male the whole of the under-sur- 

 face, except the flanks of the prosternum, is black ; in both 

 sexes the tibiae (except at base and apex) are blood-red, in 

 the female the femora are usually red stained in places with 

 black, in the male the femora (except the base of the 

 anterior pair) are usually deep black. In the female the 

 pygidium is red, in the male it is sometimes red and some- 

 times black ; the head is red in the female and more or 

 less black in the male. 



C. carnifcx, Suff., differs in having the under-surface and 

 legs in both sexes entirely black (with or without a bluish 

 gloss) and the punctures of both prothorax and elytra very 

 much smaller and sparser. I believe, however, that it 

 should be regarded as a (very distinct) variety of hsematodes, 

 although it is smooth whilst hmmatodcs is rough ; the 

 antennae of both forms are identical (those of the 

 male being unusually long and those of the female un- 

 usually short) and the punctures are similar in character 

 (although very much coarser in Jwematodcs, but very vari- 

 able amongst individuals), being, on the elytra, crowded at 

 the base, subgeminate in arrangement about the middle 

 and seriate posteriorly; in carnifcx the elytra are feebly or 

 not at all striate posteriorly, in h/Binatodcs they are feebly 

 or moderately strongly striate posteriorly; the posthumeral 

 lobes and the scutellum (frequently useful distinguishing 

 features) are identical in both. 



I have only seen specimens of hiematodcs from Tasmania 

 and of carnifcx from the mainland — S. Australia ; Victoria 

 — Benalla, Mangalore and Korumburra; N. S. Wales — 

 Forest Reefs, Bombala, Sydney and Queanbeyan. 



* Quite possibly it is a variety of it, as the distinguishing features 

 relied on related to colour only. 



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