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angles advanced and rather acute, the sides not much bulged out, 

 the base and posterior angles rounded, and the whole surface finely 

 and rather thinly punctate. Elytra about as wide as the thorax 

 but rather shorter, striated, the strife very fine and minutely 

 punctate, the interstices opaque, flat, and very indistinctly punc- 

 tate except near the sides, the humeral angles and the apical callus 

 indistinctly rufopiceous. Pygidium coarsely and thinly punctate. 

 Under surface very sparingly villose. 



Length, 2^ lines. 



Hah. — Cairns. 



Family MELOLONTHID^. 



22. Phyllotocus vittatus. 



Of rather elongate form, subdepressed, black, opaque. Head 

 coarsely and thinly punctate, the clypeus narrowed and recurved 

 in front. Thorax nearly square, subsericeous, thinly and coarsely 

 punctate, the anterior angles acute and prominent; the sides 

 almost angled before the middle, then running in a straight line 

 to tha base, which is almost truncate. The elytra are little broader 

 than the thorax, and about twice the length, strongly punctate- 

 striate ; the interstices convex and smooth, the alternate ones a 

 little larger ; a ferruginous vitta occupies the disk of each elytron, 

 broad at the base and narrowing towards the apex which it does 

 not quite reach. The legs and antennse are yellow, the hind tibiae 

 black. Long thinly placed hairs extend along the lateral margins 

 of the whole upper surface, the under surface is thinly clothed 

 with the same. 



Length, 2 lines. 



Hah. — Mossman River, Cairns. 



The two following species are to all appearance of the genus 



Scitala, but cannot be placed in that genus on account of the very 



different antennae. Scitala is described as having 8-jointed 



antennae, the first joint long and much and suddenly swollen at 



the apex ; the 2nd rather thick and turbinate ; the 3rd somewhat 



long ; the ^th variable, sometimes as long as the 3rd ; the 5th 

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