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



Cryptocephalus rufoterminalis, n. sp. 

 (Plates XXIII, XXVI, figs. 70, 193.) 



$. Elongate-oblong, moderately .shining. Black ; all the margins 

 of prothorax, a rather wide antemedian fascia on elytra and portion 

 of pygidium and nnder-surface flavous ; part of head, antennae 

 (eighth joint black and part of first seventh and ninth infuscate) and 

 legs (upper portion of femora and third and part of fourth tarsal 

 joints black) red ; apex of elytra orange-red. 



Head densely and coarsely punctate ; with a narrow median 

 impression. Antennae longer than the body, second joint one-fiftli 

 the length of third, third slightly longer than fifth and much longer 

 than fourth, fifth widened at apex, seventh — tenth wide and sub- 

 triangular, eighth widest, eleventh feebly curved. Prothorax more 

 than twice as wide as long ; densely and coarsely punctate, punctures 

 more or less round and very few confluent, margins narrow, anterior 

 angles projecting outwards ; oblique impressions not tracealile. 

 Scutelhim transverse ; feebly punctate ; base entire and but little 

 wider than apex. Elytra of the same shape and sculpture as the 

 preceding species, except that the transverse rugulosities are rather 

 less regular. Apex of prosternnm wide and feebly bilobed. Abdo- 

 men with a transverse rounded tubercle in middle of first segment, 

 fourth appearing on each side as a triangular wedge, fifth with a 

 triangular impression of which the apex is directed forwards. 



Length 6 (vix) mm. 



Hab. N. S. Wales: Uralla (IF. W. Froggatt), Yass 

 (Macleay Museum). 



The specimen (damaged) from Yass has the entire tarsi 

 and the apex of the tibiae black. The dark portion of the 

 under-surfaces varies in the two specimens before me, but 

 in both the flanks of the metasternum are black and the 

 intercoxal process of prosternum flavous. Both have some 

 indistinct flavous patches about the base of the elytra. 

 The abdominal impression although not very deep has 

 almost perpendicular walls. 



In colour of body this species agrees fairly well witii 

 Chapuis' description of Gr. hihamatus, but I have certainly 

 correctly identified that species which has the antennae 

 almost entirely black and with the two terminal joints 

 " arcuatis, interius acute hamatis," whilst in the present 

 species the antennas are almost entirely pallid and with the 

 tenth joint not at all and the eleventh but feebly curved. 



