Australian and Tasmanian Oryptocephalides. 419 



Apex of prosternnm very wide and obtusely rounded. Abdomen 

 with the fourth segment just traceable across middle ; fovea with 

 scarcely traceable lateral extensions. 

 Length 5^ mm. 



Hah. W. Australia: Geraldton (A. M. Lea). 



A pallid species but rendered distinct by the dark green 

 and fairly wide sutural marking. I have seen but one 

 specimen. 



Cryptocephalus scabiosus, n. sp. 

 (Plate XXIII, fig. 82.) 



■J . Oljlong, moderately shining, subtuberculate. Of a rather 

 dark red, antennae and tarsi paler ; junction of prothorax with 

 scutellum and elytra and apex of scutellura blackish ; elytra with a 

 submedian flavous fascia. 



Head densely and coarsely punctate and with a distinct median 

 impression. Antennae thin, not extending to hind coxae, second joint 

 more than half the length of third, third distinctly longer than 

 fourth, fourth and fifth subequal. Prothorax densely and coarsely 

 punctate, punctures very irregular ; oblique impressions feeble, 

 margins very narrow. Scutellum transverse ; feebl}' punctate ; base 

 deeply notched and less than twice the width of apex. Elytra 

 oblong, subhumeral lobes small ; rather coarsely and very irregularly 

 punctate ; with scar-like elevations — largest across middle and 

 towards base and apex more or less following the lines of inter- 

 stices. Apex of prosterymm very wide and distinctly bilobed. 

 Abdomen with the fourth segment just traceable across middle ; 

 fovea without lateral extensions. 



Length 5^ mm. 



Hah. S. Australia (types in Macleay Museum). 



A peculiar and roughly sculptured species totally differ- 

 ent to any other known to me. The tlavous fascia on the 

 elytra is very irregular and is confined to the elevated 

 portions. 



There are two females before me ; a male, which I 

 believe to belong to the species, is deep black (the head, 

 antennae and parts of the leg? piceous-brown), with a 

 very distinct but irregular pale elytral fascia, interrupted 

 at suture, and on each side enclosing two small irregular 

 dark circular spaces; from the fascia there are no pro- 

 longations either backwards or forwards, but on both the 

 females there are such. This male is also of smaller size 

 (3| ram.), with coarser punctures, prothorax more gibbous 



