370 Mr. A. M. Lea's Notes on 



Cryptocephalus aciculatus, Chp. 

 (Plates XXII, XXV, figs. 38, 39, 143, 144.) 



There are three specimens in the Macleay Museum from 

 South Australia (two of them labelled " Interior of S. A.") 

 that belong to this species ; in one of them the scutellum 

 is blackish-brown, in the others deep black ; in the two 

 specimens from the interior the greater portion of the 

 elytra is dark, the basal fascia occupies more than one- 

 third of the surface, and the apical spots are very large, 

 and each appears to be surrounded by a pallid ring ; in one 

 specimen the head is entirely red. 



Another specimen in the Macleay Museum (from N. W. 

 Australia) differs from the description in being larger 

 (5 mm.), in having the prothoracic spot small, longitudinal 

 and irregular, and the scutellum with a rather large pallid 

 spot. 



Cryptocephalus filum, Chp. 



(Plate XXII, fig. 40.) 



Only the female was known to Chapuis ; the male 

 differs in being smaller, with longer antennae (exactly 

 reaching to the apex of the body) and (in the only 

 specimen before me) the second fascia occupying the whole 

 of the apical two-fifths of elytra; in two females before 

 me this fascia appears to be composed of two large 

 conjoined spots, narrowed towards suture, and leaving a 

 fairly large apical patch of the ground colour ; in the male 

 also the abdomen is rather dingy instead of being (as in 

 the female) a clear lemon-yellow. Baly referred the species 

 to his genus Paraeepliala { = Schizostcrnus) ; the hinder 

 apex of the prosternum, however, is much less deeply 

 excised than in his P. pedoralis {= S. alhogidaris), although 

 it might fairly perhaps be regarded as semicircularly 

 emarginate ; it is, moreover, so closely applied to the 

 mesosternum that it can only be separated with difliculty. 



Cryptocephalus argentatus, Chp. 



(Plate XXII, figs. 41, 42.^ 



Idiocephala hella, Baly. 



This is a variable species of which I have taken several 

 pairs in cop. The elytral markings of the male are 



