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narrowly obscurely reddish throughout, its prothorax is immacu- 

 late, but the spot on the head is fairly well defined. 



Phyllocharis vitticollis, n.sp. 



Flavous, a wide median vitta on prothorax, scutelliini, eight 

 large spots on elytra, parts of the pro- and meso-, and Hanks of 

 metasternum, antennae and legs, brassy-brown or black. 



Head almost impunctate; clypeal suture semicircular, but an 

 oblique impression connected with each side of same to near 

 hind margin of eye. Antennse rather stout, six basal joints 

 sliining, the others densely pubescent. Prothorax about thrice 

 as wide as long, sides parallel except in front, front margin dis- 

 tinctly incurved to middle; witli a patch of rather large punc- 

 tures on each side of base, and a few small ones scattered else- 

 where. Elytra conspicuously wider than prothorax, shoulders 

 regularly, the sides gently, rounded, a distinct impression on 

 each side at base, and a shallow one behind each shoulder; with 

 rows of distinct but not very large punctures, becoming smaller 

 and irregular towards sides and apex. Intercoxal process of 

 prosternum with apex scarcely separately convex, base obtusely 

 bilobed. Length, 6 J mm. 



Hah. — Queensland (H. J. Carter; unique). 



In general appearance, strikingly close to the typical form of 

 P. cyanicornis, but prothorax much shorter in proportion, with 

 a wide median vitta continuous from base to apex, not quite 

 parallel-sided, and covering rather more than one-third of the 

 surface, and without lateral spots; the elytra also are somewhat 

 wider, are widest near the base instead of beyond the middle, 

 and the spots, although the same in number and position, are 

 not quite the same, the medio-sutural one being notably wider, 

 the depression between each shoulder and the suture is also 

 deeper. On the elytra, there are t\^o, large, round spots close to 

 the scutellum, a somewhat oblique one on each side behind the 

 shoulder, a large one (wider than the head) on the suture between 

 these, two transverse ones at about the apical third, and a sutural 

 one at apex. 



