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



purple has been described by Chapuis as L. corruscus; it 

 appears to be very rare, I have seen but one specimen of 

 it, from Forest Reefs. 



A rather common variety of the male has the head and 

 prothorax of a fiery (often reddish) copper, with the elytra 

 purple or purplish-blue ; its corresponding female is purple 

 or purplish-blue, often with a greenish gloss; such a female 

 has been described by Chapuis as Z. chalyhvus. 



A moderately common variety of the female has the 

 head and prothorax deep blue and the elytra purple. 



Another variety of the female is entirely purple except 

 for a blue space towards the base of the elytra. 



MiTOCERA viRiDiPENNis, Saund. 



Cryptocephalus iJcrlowjus, Cbp. 



(Plates XXIII, XXV, figs. 64, 65, 16G.) 



Only the male was known to Saunders, who described 

 it as coming from the Swan River, this locality possibly 

 being erroneous ; the species may occasionally be taken on 

 the leaves of young Eucalypti in summer ; it is fairly 

 common in Tasmania and the mountainous parts of N. S. 

 Wales and Victoria. Baly referred it to OcJirosopsis, calling 

 attention to the fact that it had been re-described by 

 Chapuis, to whom both sexes were known, as Cryptoceplialus 

 pcrlongvs. In a male from Tarago (N. S. Wales) there is 

 a pallid elliptic spot on each elytron, about the middle, 

 close to the suture and slightly oblique in position ; there 

 are also two somewhat similar specimens in the Tasmanian 

 Museum, on one of them the spots are about half, on the 

 other about twice the size of those on the Tarago specimen ; 

 Mr. H. H. D. Griffith has a specimen from Gisborne 

 (Victoria) in which the pallid marking extends over most 

 of the surface : specimens of both sexes have occasionally 

 a purplish gloss on the elytra, and I have seen a female 

 with entirely purple elytra. 



LOXOPLEURUS AURICULATUS, Sufif. 



A small coarsely sculptured species very distinct on 

 account of the yellowish subhumeral lobes. 

 Hah. S. Australia. 



