512 NEW SPECIKS OF AUSTRALIAN TOLEOPTKRA, xi., 



Phyllocharis sculpticeps, n.sp. (Plate xlviii., fig.5). 



Reddish-flavous; scutellura, shoulders, a subapical spot and 

 two fascise on elytra, antennae, knees, tibiae and tarsi more or 

 less purplish. 



Head conspicuously sculptured, and with fairly large, scattered 

 punctures. Antennae stout, six basal joints shining, the others 

 densely pubescent. Prothorax almost twice as wide as long, 

 front angles somewhat rounded, hind ones rectangular; towards 

 each side with numerous large punctures, a few smaller ones 

 scattered about elsewhere. Elytra narrow, almost parallel-sided, 

 distinctly wider than prothorax; with numerous rather small 

 but distinct punctures, in almost regular series near base, but 

 very irregular elsewhere, with a vague, transverse impression 

 behind each shoulder. Intercoxal process of irrosternum with 

 apex not separately convex, base wide and almost truncate. 

 Length, 6^-7 mm. 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Darwin (N. Davies). 



Allied to P. hieroglyphica, but prothorax and head almost 

 immaculate, elytra without a large spot conjoined to suture on 

 each side of base, markings otherwise different and femora mostly 

 pale; the size and outlines are somewhat similar, but the punc- 

 tures are not so coarse. There is a vaguely infuscate spot on 

 the head, and a still more vague one on the prothorax; the elytral 

 markings are of a beautiful purple, the humeral spots are slightly 

 larger than the scutellum, and slightly smaller than the subapical 

 one, the fasciae, at a glance, appear to be continuous, but really 

 do not quite touch the suture, the first at about the basal third, 

 the second just beyond the middle; on the left elytron of one 

 specimen, a vitta narrowly conjoins the two. The impressions 

 on the head consist of a short groove close to each eye, inwards 

 of each of these an oblique groove, the two meeting in the middle 

 of the base, inwards of these are two oblique elevations conjoined 

 posteriorly so as to become V-shaped, and close to the base of 

 each antenna is a rounded elevation. One specimen has the 

 elytra more bluish than purple, and with the pale markings 

 reduced to an irregular oblique patch on each side of the scu- 

 tellum, and a small space at the apex; the suture, however, is 



