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



Head with moderately large sparse punctures, but densely strigose 

 at base ; middle fceVdy impresscHl. Antenna) stout, just ])assinjf hind 

 coxic, second joint more tlian half the length of third, tliird and fifth 

 subequal, seventh — tenth rather wide. Prothorax less than twice as 

 wide as long, strongly and regularly convex, oblique impressions 

 almost absent; margins very narrow; sides with dense and moder- 

 ately large punctures, l)ecomiiig smaller and sparser on disc ; minute 

 punctures scattered about, l^cnh'lliiiu slightly transverse ; spar-sely 

 punctate ; base not much wider than apex and with a large notch. 

 Elytra with small subhumeral lobes, coarsely punctate behind 

 shoulders, apical half with small punctures in regular series, towards 

 base becoming larger and subgeminatc in arrangement. Pyijidhim 

 with a vciy feeble median ridge. Apex of prodernnvi wide and 

 just perceptil)ly Itilobed. Interuiediate scguients of al)domen strongly 

 incurved to and narrow across mitldle, lifth large and feeljly trans- 

 versely depressed. 



Length 4i mm. 



9 . Differs in being slightly larger with smaller punctures and 

 antenna; .'shorter and thinner ; fourth abdominal segment just 

 traceable across middle ; fovea without lateral extensions. 



Length 5 mm. 



JIhJ). N. S. Wales: Bfi-riina (types in Macleay Museum), 

 Bungeiidore, Queanbeyan (A. M. fjca). 



An aberrant species with an outline suggestive of 

 Frawnotvs, but the scutelluni of normal size and the 

 intercostal process of j)rosternum of different shape to that 

 of P. snlmeta/licus, Suffr., and rvjicaudis, Baly. I have 

 seen but one male, but there are four females before me ; 

 of the.se two are coloured as the male, the third is deep 

 metallic blue witii pui-[)lish reflections, and the fourth is 

 metallic green, with in ])lac('S, and from some directions, 

 coppery reflections. 



CrYPTOCEPHALUS ORNATIl'ENNIS, n. sp. 



(Plate XXIII, figs. 83, 84.) 



(J. Bluish-black; front of head, extreme apex and sides of 

 prothorax and parts of four (or of a less number) basal joints of 

 antenna) dull red ; under-surface (metasternum infuscate) and legs 

 (tarsi and apex of tibia; blackish) j)aler ; elytra with the base (but 

 not the extreme base) and four postmedian and tw(j suljapical spots 

 flavous. 



Head densely and regularly punctate except that at base the 

 punctures become subcontinent ; median impression feeble. Antennae 



