2 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Descriptions of the Species 



Section A. Antennae 9-articiilatae. Ungues pedum anticorum in 

 mare simplices, aequales. (^Cryptodvs striate sic dictus.) 



Sp. 1 . Cryplodus paradoxus, Mac L. 

 " C. ater, punctis impressis, scaber, capite bituberculato, elytris 

 inter strias elevatas punctis excavatis, cum aliis minutissimis 

 ornatis." Mac. L. 

 Habitat in Australasia. Mus. D. Mac Leay. 

 The above is the whole of Mr. Mac Leay's description of this 

 species, so that we are unable to determine satisfactorily whether 

 it is identical with the following insect, with which, however, the 

 peculiar punctation of the elytra, as described by Mac Leay, exactly 

 corresponds. 



Sp. 2. Cryptodus variolosus, White. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 



*' C. convexus, fuscus, varioloso-punctatus, capite distinctius 

 bituberculato, elytris obsolete tricostatis dense varioloso- 

 punctatis." Mas et fern. Burm. 



Long. corp. lin. 8 — 9. 



Habitat in Australia. Mus. Brit. Hope, Saunders, &c. 



Cr. variolosus, White in Gray's Journ., ii. 400. 



Cr. paradoxus? V\'estwood in Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 1, vol. iv. 

 p. 22, tab. 2, fig. 1 z. 



Cr. paradoxus, Burmeister, Handb. d. Ent. v. 145. 



The obscure brown colour of this insect seems to indicate it as 

 specifically distinct from Mr. Mac Leay's species above noticed ; 

 the peculiar punctation of the elytra, namely, variolose dots, with 

 very minute punctures interspersed, is a peculiar character of the 

 insect before us, and agrees with Mac Leay's description. The 

 short Iroad subdepressed form of the body, the large subquadrate 

 head, the legs destitute of hairs, the 9-jointed antennae with a 

 large obconic basal joint, and the two spines at the base of the 

 mentum, are also distinctive characters. 



Sp. 3. Cryptodus piceus, Germ. (PI. L fig. 2.) 



" C. mento basi emarginato, antennis 9-articulatis, piceus, tho- 

 rice lateribus rotundato, confertim grosse punctato postice 

 profunde canaliculato, elytris convexioribus, grosse punctatis, 

 dorso substdcatis." Germ. 



Long. corp. lin. Ti. 



Habitat Adelaida, Novae Hollandiae. 



Cryj)todus piceus, Germ, in Linn. Ent. iii. p. 190. 



