Australian and Tasmanian Cryptocqihalides. 367 



" elytris subbifasciatis, punctis pone basin et pone medium 

 congestis," the scutellum notch is also larger. It would be 

 unsafe, however, to describe it as a new species without 

 seeing more specimens. 



Cryptocephalus terminalis, Chp. 



? C'ryptoccphalus facialis, Chp. 

 (Plate XXII, fig. 31.) 



The type specimen of this species (undoubtedly a 

 female) had a large apical black patch. I have seen three 

 such females, but four others have the elytra (except at the 

 extreme base) entirely pallid ; five males (one marked as 

 having been taken in co]). with a Gayndah female having 

 the dark apical patch) have the elytra also of uniform 

 colour. It is doubtful therefore as to whether the form of 

 the female having the black apical patch should be re- 

 garded as typical or varietal, but the typical male at least 

 appears to be without the apical patch. Specimens vary 

 considerably in the size of their punctures. 



The male differs from the female in being smaller and 

 with longer and thinner antennae. It seems to me quite 

 possible that the male was described by Chapuis under the 

 name of facialis ; he says, however, that the antennae of 

 that species have only the basal joint red and that the 

 tarsi have the two apical joints infuscate, whilst in all the 

 males of terminalis before me the two basal joints of 

 antennae (and usually part of the third) are pallid and all 

 the tarsal joints are dark. 



This species is perilously close to C. conjugatus (not 

 Loxopleurus conjugahis, Chp.), but even if it is to be regarded 

 as a variety of that species it can be readily distinguished 

 by its pallid under-surface and legs (except tarsi). 



Hah. Queensland: Gayndah, Port Denison, Mackay; 

 N. W. Australia. 



Cryptocephalus antennalis, Chp. 



Dr. Chapuis says of this species "capite i^ugulosa, postice 

 subttiberculate." There are two specimens from Wide Bay 

 (the original locality) in the Macleay Museum which I 

 refer, without hesitation, to this species, but I cannot re- 

 gard the base of the head as subtuberculate, the base is 

 rather more convex than is usual in the genus, but the 



