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



(Forest Reefs and the Blue Mountains) ; Saunders' 

 specimen was from " New Holland " ; in both (females) the 

 antennae are slightly longer than the body (Saunders says 

 of vermimdaris that they are " as long as the body "), and 

 the elytral punctures are frequently dark brown instead of 

 black. The specimen from Forest Reefs was compared 

 and agrees with a specimen in the Macleay Museum bear- 

 ing the name vermicularis, but on what authority it was so 

 named I do not know. 



A male specimen from Tasmania (Mt. Wellington) 

 appears to be the male of the species, it has the meta- 

 sternura in places clouded with black (probably an 

 individual or local variation). It differs from the above 

 noted females in being longer and narrower, with much 

 stouter antennse, and which are just as long as the body ; 

 its head is densely punctate only (in the females the head 

 is strigose as well), and its legs are stouter, the punctures 

 of the upper surface are more crowded together, and are 

 invariably black. 



OCHROSOPSIS SUBFASCIATUS, Saund. 



var. Ochrosopsis melanocephalus, Saund. 



(Plates XXV, XXVI, figs. 163, 190.) 



This is a common species and a variable one both 

 sexually and individually ; moreover, specimens which 

 have been for some time in spirits frequently have a 

 different appearance to those which have been killed with 

 the fumes of chloroform or other non-fluid-killing agents. 



The specimen described by Saunders appears to have 

 been a female, the male differs in being smaller and 

 frequently with the vertex and a line down the face black, 

 the brown portions of the elytra are as a rule greater in 

 extent in the females than in the males. Tasmanian 

 specimens are usually darker than those from the main- 

 land, and their elytra might often be called reddish-brown 

 with three pallid irregular fascia? (one basal, one median, 

 and one apical). On the prothorax of the male (and very 

 rarely also on the female) there are often two dark 

 longitudinal stripes. The scutellum is subcordate with a 

 rather large basal notch. 



A male specimen from Hobart, which I can only regard 

 as a variety of suhfasciatus, agrees exactly with Saunders' 

 description of melanoce;phalus ; this specimen agrees exactly 



