OF AUSTRALIAN PHYTOPHAGOUS BEETLES. 459 



Pamily CRYPTOCEPHALIDiE. 



Genus Idiocephala, Saunders. 



Idiocephala nigripenxis. Subquadrato-oblonga, valde con- 

 vexa, rufo-fulva, nitida ; antennis (basi exceptis) elytrisque nigris ; 

 thorace basi utrinque oblique impresso, mediocriter et remote 

 punctato ; elytris fortiter seriatim punctatis, iaterspatiis ante me- 

 dium et ad latera transversim elevato-strigosis. 5 • Long. 2 lin. 



Sab. Queensland, Eockhampton. 



Head scarcely broader than long, subrotundate, closely punc- 

 tured, interspaces finely rugose-strigose ; vertex and front with 

 an ill- defined i-aised longitudinal line ; eyes moderately distant, 

 deeply notched ; antennae more than half the length of the bo'dy, 

 slightly thickened towards the apex, black, four lower joints rufo- 

 fulvous, more or less stained with piceous. Thorax twice as 

 broad as long ; sides broadly margined, subparallel at the base, 

 thence obliquely converging to the apex, more quickly converging 

 and slightly rounded near the latter ; above convex, bi'oadly and 

 pbliquely depressed on either side, smooth and shining, remotely 

 punctured ; the broadly reflexed lateral margin paler than the 

 disk. Scutellum wedge-shaped, its apex truncate. Elytra not 

 broader than the base of the thorax ; sides strongly lobed, con- 

 stricted behind the middle ; above convex, rather strongly punc- 

 tate-striate, interspaces on the anterior disk and on the sides 

 transversely wrinkled. Body beneath closely punctured. Pro- 

 sternum oblong, its hinder apex truncate, its surface plane, the 

 anterior border scarcely deflexed. 



Genus Ehombosternus, Suffr. 



Ehombosternus sulphuripennis, 8ii;fr. MS. Elongatus J , 

 magis oblongus 5 , subcylindricus, flavus, nitidus ; vertice, tho- 

 racis margine basali, scutello, tibiis apice tarsisque nigris ; thorace 

 hie illic fortiter punctato ; elytris fortiter punctatis, punctis apicem 

 versus striatim dispositis ; interspatiis transversim elevato-reti- 

 culatis, inter strias longitudiualiter convexiusculis ; sutura, fascia 

 basali alteraque pone medium undata, nigris. 



Mas abdominis segmento ultimo apice trilobato, dorso fovea 

 magna subrotundata leviter impresso, et utrinque prope apicem 

 spina compressa acuta, deorsum spectante, instructo. 



Var. A. scutello flavo, nigro-limbato. Long. 3-3i lin, 



Hab, South Australia, Adelaide. 



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