Aiistralian and Tasmanian Cryiitoccphalides. 879 



in structure with the ordinary males of suhfasciatus, but is 

 the only one I have seen having the scutellum and parts 

 of the metasternum and legs black. 



Hob. S. Australia; Victoria: Gisborne; N. S.Wales : 

 Jenolan, Mts. Victoria and Wilson; Tasmania: Hobart, 

 Ulverstone, Strahan. 



OcHROSOPSis RUFESCENS, Saund. 



The scutellum in this species varies from flavous to 

 black. Saunders appears to have seen only the female, 

 the male differs in being considerably smaller and with 

 longer antennse. The head varies slightly in its depth of 

 colour, and there is occasionally an infuscate line down the 

 middle ; the extent of the pallid space at the apex of the 

 elytra varies in extent. 



Hab. Tasmania ; S. Australia. 



OCHROSOPSIS APICALIS, Saund. 



Specimens from Tasmania (the original locality) which 

 I refer to this species differ from mfcsccns slightly in colour, 

 but more particularly in having the sculpture of the 

 pro thorax and elytra much more irregular, the elytra with 

 an irregular but very distinct lateral carina, and the 

 scutellum, except at apex, quite coarsely punctate ; in 

 rufcsccns the scutellum is also punctate but the punctures 

 are at the sides and much less numerous and profound. 

 The prothorax also is decidedly smaller than in rufescens 

 and the clothing of the under-surface is longer and more 

 silvery, that on the abdomen of rufescens being very short. 



From Glen Innes (N. S. Wales) I have numerous 

 specimens which agree in all structural details with the 

 above noted Tasmanian ones, but the colour of the upper- 

 surface is paler and the shades of colour more diffused and 

 less strongly contrasted, the metasternum and part of the 

 abdomen is black in the males and piceous or infuscate 

 only in the females ; in these specimens * the apical third 

 of the eleventh joint is blackish. These specimens are 

 probably typical, the ones above and below noted probably 

 being varieties. 



From Tasmania I have three males and one female (the 

 latter taken in copula with one of the males) which appear 



* As in all others which I have seen, although it is sometimes very 

 indistinct. 



