460 Mr. R. I. Pocock on the 
The British Museum also has examples from Adelaide, 
Sydney, Parramatta (J. Macpherson) ; Cooran, in Queensland 
(Piof. Baldwin Spencer); Cape York and some of the 
Australian islands—Fitzroy Island, Baudin Island, &c. 
From Australia the species is said to extend in a north- 
westerly direction as far as Java. 
The colour varies considerably and perhaps in accordance 
with locality. Prof. Baldwin Spencer’s examples from Cooran 
all belong to the fasciata type, being remarkably yellow, with 
a narrow transverse stripe on the posterior border of the 
terga, whereas in examples from New South Wales (Sydney) 
and Adelaide the green, especially at the anterior end of the 
body, predominates. In some cases the terga and head are 
quite green. 
Genus Cryptors, Leach. 
Cryptops sulcata, Haase. 
Cryptops australis, Kohlrausch, Arch. Naturg. xlvii. p. 127, pl. v. 
tigs. 21, 22 (1881) (not australis, Newp.). 
Cryptops suleata, Haase, Abh. Mus. Dresden, no. 5, p. 80, pl. v. fig. 838 
(1887). 
Loc. Rockhampton. 
Cryptops spinipes, Pocock. 
Cryptops spinipes, Pocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 156 (1891). 
Loc. Sydney (J. Brazier). 
This species at least differs from C. sulcatus, which is 
unknown to me, in having the first and second tergites 
devoid of longitudinal sulci. 
Order GHOPHILOMORPHA. 
Key to the Australian Genera. 
a. Basal plate broad, quite covering the pleure of 
the toxicognaths at the sides ; a row of pleural 
scutes above the stigmata ............+.+... Orphneus. 
b. Basal plate narrow; the pleure of the toxico- 
gnaths not covered from above. 
a’. Upper edges of the pleure of the toxicognaths 
forming a sharp ridge on each side of the very 
TiemaROne, loMseL EWES. 5 San go ovcoanoosodeo eas Mecistocephalus. 
b'. Upper edges of the pleuree not forming a ridge 
on each side of the basal plate ............ Necrophleophagus. 
Genus MercisroceeHa.us, Newp. 
Mecistocephalus tahitiensis, Wood. 
Meecistocephalus tahitiensis, Wood, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. (2) v. 
p- 43 (1863); Haase, Abh. Mus. Dresden, no. 5, p. 101 (1887), pl. vi. 
fig. 108 (1887). 
